Architecture blog Brand Avenue celebrates its 2nd birthday by rolling out a list of its best posts from year two: be sure to click around for an hour, then bookmark the site. Great stuff. View full entry
New Morphosis fed tower in SF could actually be named after the House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco. Also, the building is over-budget. What else is new? Read View full entry
Slate's architecture critic Witold Rybczinski takes a slide show look at the 25 year old "town". View full entry
An interesting set of drawings of The Hanging Cemetary of Babylon. Pruned View full entry
AIA Saint Paul invites all members of AIA Minnesota to join us March 10th for this year's Unauthorized Design event which will explore the potential for the Ford plant site along the Mississippi River... Don't miss this opportunity to exercise your imagination outside the bounds of the office or... View full entry
In flickr- dodeckahedron check out the rest of her flickr sets they are good and also her blog bloop bleep View full entry
PTW’s National Swimming Center for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing - aka the Bubble Building - exemplifies what all new construction should aim to be: beautiful, functional, forward-thinking, and most importantly, a good example for future development in a nation whose growth appears to know... View full entry
Last week London's Barbican gallery opened a major retrospective of Aalto's work curated by Shigeru Ban. 24hour museum reviews the exhibition. Previously. View full entry
In the beauty and geometric complexity of tile mosaics on walls of medieval Islamic buildings, scientists have recognized patterns suggesting that the designers had made a conceptual breakthrough in mathematics beginning as early as the 13th century. NYTimes View full entry
Then copy the Georgians. Observer View full entry
The NYtimes reports on the latest european import to the US - automated parking - that puts us one step closer to living like the Jetsons... of course, the american version isn't the work of art that the germans have been using for a few years. NYC: Wolfsburg: View full entry
Check out the latest issue of ID Magazine. The theme is beauty, and featured is our very own Archinect editor duo F. David Boira and Zoe Coombes of emerging Commonwealth fame. View full entry
"Worried your house may crumble during the next earthquake but not keen to pump toxic grouts into the ground to hold it up? A shot of bacteria may be the solution, say researchers. They have shown in the lab that a common soil bacteria, Bacillus pasteurii, can stabilise buildings built on sandy... View full entry
John King loves Morphosis' new green fed tower in SF. "Like it or not," he says, "this is architecture at its provocative best." View full entry
For every Koolhaas the West produces, [China] can produce 10 very good young Chinese architects able to deliver the same project, at the same level of quality, for about a third of the price. This doesn’t mean, of course, that China is immune from nouveau riche posturing. NYT February... View full entry