Pentagram Papers 37 surveys the work of 43 German Jewish architects from the 1920s and 1930s whose work has been lost to history... also | discussion View full entry
The Housing and Urban Development Secretary Alphonso Jackson announced his resignation today as an investigations gathers momentum into allegations of corruption... AP View full entry
The History Channel's City of the Future competition is at it again. Vote for your favorite version of future urbanity either SF, DC, or ATL. The opportunity to vote is open till April 28th, so you know what they say here in Chicago... Vote early. Vote often. VOTE | previous | last year's winner View full entry
This just in; It is Milan!!! Oh well, it was good for five minutes when Turks jumped on the gun and said it was Izmir. I apologize for the earlier news that Expo was to be hosted by Izmir. Bloomberg | PoliGazette View full entry
MACE (Metadata for Architectural Contents in Europe) has issued a call for papers for their upcoming conference on “Online Repositories in Architecture”, which is aligned with this year's Venice Biennale. The conference centers around three concepts: 1. Education: Teaching... View full entry
Nothing in the main stream media obits yet, but the University of Minnesota College of Design sent an email to students announcing the death of Ralph Rapson FAIA, on March 28th from a heart attack.Discussion View full entry
Today the first excavation inside the ring at Stonehenge in more than four decades gets underway. The dig will be seeking material for carbon dating to provide evidence for the time frame of the structures erection. BBC View full entry
College students are often considered the wellspring of the environmental movement. Now campus designers are going green, too. BusinessWeek explores. View full entry
"Jean Nouvel, the bold French architect known for such wildly diverse projects as the muscular Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis and the exotically louvered Arab World Institute in Paris, has received architecture�s top honor, the Pritzker Prize." His selection is to be announced Monday. - NYT... View full entry
Renowned French designer Philippe Starck says he is fed up with his job and plans to retire in two years, in an interview published in a German weekly on Thursday. - Breitbart View full entry
News of Paris-based Serero Architects' installation at the top of the tower has been declared a hoax by La Societe d'Exploitation de la Tour Eiffel (SETE).Bustler and Archinect reported on this story on March 17th, which then lead to countless reports from other blogs... eventually making way... View full entry
'The case was made for using architecture to revitalize the economies of postindustrial cities by establishing a brotherhood of “superstar” architects who would generate spectacles bolstered by our reviews, creating “architourism,” or what has become known today as... View full entry
The Michael Lee-Chin Crystal, the ROM's steel and glass addition that has won more acclaim internationally than at home, has been picked as one of the seven new wonders of the architecture world by Conde Nast Traveler. National Post | Other treasures with pics after the jump...Thomas Payne... View full entry
la Bêka and Louise Lemoine have shot another movie, following one on Richard Meier's Church in Rome and another on the H&deM winery, they look at the Koolhaas/OMA house in Bordeaux. The house was designed for for a man after he was bound to a wheelchair after a near-fatal car-accident... View full entry
I love seeing cities develop strategies to improve the safety and desirability of cycling as an alternative form of transportation. A couple recent noteworthy examples: Tempe, AZ is adopting a common European practice of completely covering the bike lanes with red paint, as reported by... View full entry
