Architectural Record also releases their list of the best Unbuilt Houses of 2007 – including the Distributed House, the Ranch House, and the Jellyfish House. View full entry
Architectural Record releases its Record Houses 2007 list. Stand-outs include the Ring House, where dead kids climb out of wells, drowning horses – wait a minute... Casa Poli, and the Ohana Guest House. Check 'em out. View full entry
While you're participating in Archinect's brand new feature discussion with Mark Wigley, Ole Bouman, and Jeffrey Inaba – the editors of Volume magazine – consider asking them some questions about today's interview with Jeffrey Inaba on BLDGBLOG: Of Cars, Dogs, Golf, and Bad Feng Shui... View full entry
“The most satisfying jobs are mostly professions, especially those involving caring for, teaching and protecting others and creative pursuits...” People who scored high on the happiness scale had the following jobs: Clergy Firefighters Transportation ticket and reservation agents... View full entry
In his new book, Last Harvest: How a Cornfield Became New Daleville, Witold Rybczynski follows the design, construction, and marketing of a new residential subdivision over the course of several years. Slate offers excerpts from the narrative: 1 | 2 | 3 View full entry
Copenhagen’s Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) recently designed an eye-catching building shaped like a Chinese character to coincide with Shanghai’s “Better City, Better Life” 2010 World Expo . The building takes its form from the Chinese character for person ... View full entry
From Brooklyn's Atlantic Yards to LA's Grand Avenue development, Frank Gehry tries his hand at the urban scale. NYT | previously 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 View full entry
Architect Joseph Cory has recently proposed some enticing futuristic designs for Electro-Magnetic Skyscrapers - in which towers are able to hover in mid-air using magnetism. "By using magnetic fields as a construction material there can be infinite vertical and horizontal expansions due to the... View full entry
Recently in New York there was an exciting exhibition and a series of symposiums on the Hungarian French architect and artist Yona Friedman. WPS1 is broadcasting a talk from the exhibition titled Yona Friedman: Simple, Protean, and Spontaneous. View full entry
With the implantation of merry Ole English village communities to China and beyond is it any wonder that the next step might be a Charles Dickens theme park. Yes welcome to Dickens World! BBC View full entry
Last week it was inaugurated the exhibition FRESHFORWARD, continuation of the well-known one Freshmadrid. The exhibition joins the 15 most relevant emergent studies of architecture of Madrid. Edgar Gonzalez, Basurama, Urban Species or Myra Arquitectos are some of them. ____FRESHFORWARD View full entry
The unrest in France’s impoverished immigrant suburbs has dominated the country’s presidential campaign, leaving voters to wonder just what it means now to be French. nyt View full entry
Christopher Hawthorne surveys the Open House show and finds a "survivalist regionalism" emerging. Previously View full entry
Planners in Delhi suggest the following: 1. Turn 3-story illegal slums into 15-story slums; 2. Dust away the cobwebs of improvised electricity to reduce power outages; 3. Separate public urinals from public drinking fountains. But no matter how hard you try, there's not much to do about the wild... View full entry
Audio sessions from the Evasions of Power event at the Slought have been uploaded. | listen (scrl dwn) View full entry