U.S. News picks the best 25 professions for the new year. Though architects made the list, the figures are quite disheartening. usnews View full entry
Van Alen Institute invites applications for the New York Prize Fellowship, a new fellowship program in support of multidisciplinary research and experimental practice in public architecture. Emerging practitioners and scholars from the design and planning disciplines, and other fields in the... View full entry
Jan Kaplický's unorthodox National Library, which some liken to a multicolored octopus, has provoked scoffs from Prague residents who object to such an unusual building being built in the historic district. Kaplický defends his vision. Prague Post | previously View full entry
LACMA director Michael Govan considers an idea directed towards preservation: "...Collect significant pieces of midcentury residential architecture and treat them as both museum objects and as residences for curators." | NYT View full entry
A review of architecture in film concludes that villains always seem to prefer minimal design, but the heroes prefer homely. |AP View full entry
Author Witold Rybczynski weighs in on the America's Top 150 Buildings survey: "...What do Americans think of the recent spate of signature buildings? The short answer: not much."|Slate View full entry
A man has refused to vacate his house in Chongqing, despite threats of demolition... leading to this totally insane development: check it out. View full entry
Walter Benjamin would be proud: the Paris arcades as tourist destination. "The 19th-century shopping arcades of Paris, or passages couverts, are proof that anything modern, if spared the wrecking ball, can be stimulus for nostalgia. When these iron-columned, glass-covered structures shot up... View full entry
This article appears in the last issue of the spanish architecture magazine Arquitectura Viva. If you can read spanish, the article is about virtual communities and imaginary worlds (Second Life especially), and though it doesn't mention Archinect anywhere the accompanying illustration will be... View full entry
According to The Economist, Berlin's TV tower may soon be for sale: "To raise money for its mobile-phone network, Deutsche Telekom is considering whether to sell 20,000 of the towers, masts and roof transmitters it owns across Germany, including the television tower at Alexanderplatz... The... View full entry
A call for high-performance buildings in beantown. Boston Globe View full entry
Come be a critic for the review of LOL Architects, as featured in Architecture's Second Life. Friday March 16th, 9 AM to 6 PM, which is really 1 AM to 10 AM PST (ie. THURSDAY night - Friday morning) ... but architects don't sleep anyway, yo! There will be a double-feed of projectors between The... View full entry
Archinect editor Orhan Ayyuce spends some time with Michael Rotondi, both in his classroom, and at his office, offering some insight into the serenely fascinating world of RoTo... Read View full entry
"Caught up in a self-validating discourse that is increasingly irrelevant to network culture, design in the academy is falling behind innovators like Architecture for Humanity or Rocio Romero. The Network Architecture Lab is currently working on various open source initiatives. You will be... View full entry
The inquiry into this new skyscraper planned for the City of London opened last week. The project is supported by CABE, the British corporate all star architects and building design the architect's favourite weekly but condemned by English Heritage as oppressive and overwhelming" and by the new... View full entry