The University of California Regents Committee on Grounds and Buildings got its first peek at Toyo Ito & Associates, Architects' preliminary conceptual design for a new Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA) near the main western entrance to the UC Berkeley campus. UC Berkeley... View full entry

The result of a joint effort between construction and video game experts, You are the architect! allows users to familiarize themselves with the building industry and help them learn about the issues linked with a real building site; from drawing plans to managing workers, choosing building... View full entry

With his Make It Right project in New Orleans, Pitt may be on his way to becoming architecture’s most important patron. Is architecture up for the challenge? Metropolis | related Archinect feature: The Pink Project View full entry

The American Institute of Architects said its Architecture Billings Index for last month declined to 41.8, its lowest monthly reading since the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Wall Street Journal View full entry

Jean Nouvel has designed a bottle for L'Homme by Yves Saint Laurent. Pics after the jump... View full entry

Arthur C Clarke, notable visionary, futurist, and author of 2001: A Space Odyssey, among many other classics, has passed away at the age of 90. BBC | Wikipedia BioSir Arthur C Clarke and Stanley Kubrick during the filming of 2001 View full entry

Marlin takes us along on his latest installment of Archinect Travels, as he gasps for breath in the high altitudes of Colorado. In this episode Marlin gives IM Pei's Center for Atmospheric Research second stage after touring Boulder's Recycling Plant. Watch now, or download to your iPod for later View full entry

Paris-based Serero Architects have claimed victory in the open competition to redesign any of the Eiffel Tower's public reception and access areas. Bustler * Note: this is a temporary addition to the tower. View full entry

Last month the Chicago-based firm of Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture (currently hiring!) won a competition to design Masdar's headquarters in Abu Dhabi's Masdar City, the world's first zero-carbon, zero-waste city fully powered by renewable energy, making this project the first mixed-use... View full entry

Innovative program to encourage more graduates to enter the architectural profession RMJM, an international architecture firm with U.S. headquarters in New York City, and Harvard University Graduate School of Design will announce today the launch of a $2 million program aimed at tackling a global... View full entry

Archaeologists have discovered the ruins of an ancient temple, roadway and irrigation systems at a famed fortress overlooking the Inca capital of Cuzco, according to officials involved with the dig. AP The temple on the periphery of the Sacsayhuaman fortress casts added light on pre-Inca cultures... View full entry

"This construction accident is one of the worst the city has had,” Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said in a news conference this afternoon. The big, white tower crane, which looked to be about 20 stories tall, appeared to have toppled across a street and crashed into other nearby buildings. Mr... View full entry

For some reason the Archinect gods have selected yours truly as a guest editor this week. Despite my best efforts, my attempt to solicit bribes for the honor of being included in my Editor's Picks was unsuccessful. Therefore, I have deemed the following items worthy of your attention: First up... View full entry

"Talk to any dogmatic modernist architect - there are still plenty to be found - and you will quickly find the inner functionalist. Questions of style, of beauty, are brushed aside as irrelevant or tangential. Everything has to answer to a remorseless logic, carried through in every detail."Gabion View full entry

In response to Eisenman's thoughts on unpaid interns, a plea is made to both employer's and intern's at agents of urbanism. View full entry