Kinky Gentrification -watch: SF Chronicle reports that "No welcome mat for adult film studio. Activists prefer building be used for housing." | (SF Mayor) Newsom spokesman Peter Ragone said the mayor's office is looking for ways to halt the move of BDSM filmmaker into abandoned white elephant ||... View full entry
Jonathan Jones asks: "From the Holocaust to 9/11, from Berlin to New York, the world is now studded with memorials to human suffering. But does this really mean we care more than we used to? And does our obsession with terrible events make it any less likely that we will repeat them?" View full entry
Global warming is one of the most-talked-about topics in Davos this year. But for many gathered in the Swiss mountain town for the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, mere talk isn’t enough. “We cannot wait for our governments to act,” Yale President Richard Levin told... View full entry
Coming up in March: "Evasions of Power," a series of roundtable discussions exploring the relations between architecture, literature and geo-politics. The proceedings will take place in Philadelphia. Speakers include: Keller Easterling, Laura Kurgan, Eyal Weizman, Teddy Cruz, Anselm Franke, to... View full entry
You can view online, Farrell's talk for The Civic Trust 'Pride of Place' held at Building Centre, London on Wednesday 24 January 2007 View full entry
Designed by architect Rafael Viñoly, Pittsburgh’s David Lawrence Convention Center along the waterfront has a Gold LEED rating, and is both the largest “green” building and first “green” convention center in the world. Inhabitat View full entry
Abbé Pierre , who in the 1950s as a gaunt priest with a crook-handled cane and a profoundly persuasive passion mobilized France to attend to its homeless, then kept pressing his crusade until he became known as the country’s moral compass, died yesterday in Paris. He was 94. NYT View full entry
Happy 80th Birthday to the first lady of architecture Phyllis Lambert, who just had a birthday bash with 250 guests yesterday January 24th. Canada.com View full entry
According to the National Review, the NYT edited out the final words of Slavoj Zizek's January 5th Op-Ed on the execution of Saddam Hussein. Find out what part was missing. View full entry
What confronts the ethically-minded architect of today? Süddeutsche Zeitung architectural critic Alexander Hosch examines the relationship between the architect and the autocrat. S&S View full entry
Archinect member puddles has posted an article in the forum regarding the pending demolition of Marcel Breuer's "modest & unpretentiously modern" Grosse Pointe Central Library. A quick email may go a long way... View full entry
Fantastic series of photographs by Bill Sullivan. People passing through what seems to be a NY subway turnstile. View full entry
as Washington's most-visited monument is honored with a major design award, Newsweek presents an article and a sample of works of art and architecture created by Maya Lin in the years since she completed the memorial. View full entry
The Dutch as you might have witnessed are very progressive people. In this spirit the municipality of Groningen created a public forum to vote for a selection of seven designs for the Groninger Forum. via anarchitecture Zaha Hadid Architects Foreign Office Architects Wiel Arets Architects Erick... View full entry
The Architecture Foundation puts online the recording of this symposium where the question asked is: what is the role of architectural criticism in a landscape where the scale of architectural production, especially by well known and critically acclaimed practices, has changed beyond recognition... View full entry