"During the Hajj, millions of Muslims travel to Mecca and jam up on the Jamarat Bridge. To prevent trampling deaths," Wired reports, "scientists design crowd control by viewing surveillance imagery of the 2006 disaster as particle fluid-dynamical flow." Prev: Rebuilding the road to Mecca. View full entry
This time it is Frank Gehry in UC Irvine. Campus architect Rebekah Gladson praised the buildings: "They served a function. They did it well. They were actually great, wild and funky." But their time had passed, she said. Oh well. I think it is better to wreck them instead of remodeling beyond... View full entry
The Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP) presents “Thinking Inside the Box,” two talks about the shipping container with LOT-EK and Marc Levinson. Tuesday, January 30, at 7pm. Housing Works, 126 Crosby Street. RSVP to [email protected] View full entry
Significant new details on the public space planned at the $465 million Museum Plaza on Louisville's riverfront were disclosed yesterday at a forum on the multi-use skyscraper. Courier-Journal | recently | previously 1|2 l related View full entry
The giant Gensler-designed CityCenter Hotel in Las Vegas will dwarf all LEED structures to-date and set a new Green Design benchmark for one of the world's most wasteful industries. It might be possible to win big in Vegas after all.| Las Vegas Sun View full entry
Our popular UpStarts series has been once again updated by John Jourden. This time John sits down to talk with London-based Plasma Studio's Holger Kehne. Go View full entry
With its striking facade of waves of glass, The National Art Center, Tokyo, (designed by Kisho Kurikawa) need not beg to differ. A bold move to Roppongi away from the cluster of national and metropolitan-run institutions in Ueno, the new museum encompasses an astounding 48,000m2, making it the... View full entry
A couple in Brooklyn wants a divorce... but neither of them will give up the house. It's not a movie, it's the real-life story of the Taubs, and they've given their home a new wall: "The wall divides the ground floor of the house, and keeps husband and wife penned into separate sections on... View full entry
Some of the most iconic buildings of the past century were the work of relative beginners - experience shouldn't count for everything. Telegraph View full entry
The Atlantic yards project can't get anymore money behind it especially with Barclay's taking name rights of the stadium. But the real news isn't the big development, it's big Frank hanging with Jay-Z and Bloomy. Does this make him forever the architect of bling? NYT View full entry
For 30th anniversary of Centre Pompidou Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers will rehash building's history. Event is taking place tomorrow January 20th @ 18:30 and will be broadcasted live here. View full entry
This weeks feature Eight is Enough is a conversational interview between chief editor John Jourden and West 8's Jerry van Eyck about the reassurance of landscape as planning, the work of WEST 8, and the New Orleans situation. View full entry
Controversial building work on Florence's famed Uffizi Gallery got under way this week following years of polemics. This first stage of work will double the Uffizi's exhibition space. The second stage will include construction of a loggia, designed by Japanese architect Arata Isozaki. ANSA.it |... View full entry
She’s out, she’s in. What’s going on up in Cambridge? Longtime landscape architecture professor Martha Schwartz withdraws her resignation. Still sees serious problems within the GSD. From the IHT View full entry
Phipps-Rose-Dattner-Grimshaw Selected to Develop City-Owned Site in South Bronx... New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) Commissioner Shaun Donovan and Mark Ginsberg, FAIA, 2004 President of New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIANY), today... View full entry