James Venturi, son of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, is making a documentary about his parents. The clips prove promising. MySpace View full entry
While Archinect is busy preparing its own META for 2007. The people over at Log are unsoliciting submissions for Log 11: A New Metacritique for Architecture due February 01, 2007. Also on the writing front, Pamphlet Architecture has extended its deadline for PA29 to January 16, 2007. View full entry
A Japanese architect at the centre of a scandal over unsafe buildings was sentenced to five years in prison on Tuesday for his role in a scandal that left scores of apartments and hotels vulnerable to even moderate earthquakes. Reuters l previous l related View full entry
Mortality and other somber doses of reality fill a rather dark and sobering gabfest with Frank Gehry. Grab the tissue: you're about to laugh and cry, but I promise you'll leave the theater with a smile.| Wall St. Journal View full entry
In the global economy, U.S.-based architecture and interior design firms are ferreting out the business benefits and pitfalls of global outsourcing, or "offshoring." It's a trend driving business profitability too big to ignore. "The design community has been working for years to develop... View full entry
The year 2007 looks as if it’s going to be more about circuses than bread. FT View full entry
In the world of year end lists, person of the year issues, and year end critique paralysis when does the common person really get their say in all of this?! Right here at Archinect were interested in what your 2006 top tens are. So much so we've created a space to remember them. So get into the... View full entry
"This is a design for a private art gallery intended to permanently display eight sculptures owned by the client. Giving consideration to the state of the town and the program of the building, we decided it was necessary that the space of the art gallery itself should be potent enough to... View full entry
OMA Designs Latvia's Museum of Contemporary Art. Along with the recent Shenzen stock exchange competition victory, the Koolhaasian/Miesian exploration continues. From ArtDaily> RIGA, LATVIA.-The Latvian Ministry of Culture announced plans to move forward with its first museum of contemporary... View full entry
The artists who bemoaned SoHo’s gradual reinvention as a tourist mecca in the 1980s would have been dumbstruck by the pace of gentrification wrought by the High Line, an abandoned stretch of elevated railway tracks that will be transformed into a garden walkway from the meatpacking district... View full entry
Decoration was back on the agenda, as architects flagged up the old in the new, writes Ellis Woodman. Daily Telegraph View full entry
According to dezeen, OMA wins in the design of the Shenzhen Stock Exchange tower. Read | full court press is on in the discussion View full entry
Sheldon Fox, founding partner of Kohn Pedersen Fox has died age 76. | archpapr View full entry
Storefront for Art and Architecture in NYC has announced the appointment of Joseph Grima as its new Director. Grima leaves Domus for the post. | archpapr View full entry
Architect Magazine and Architect Online present awards for the best residential architecture as picked by a special jury. Rockhill and Associates, Studio 804, Roger Sherman and others. We're proud of our very own Ali Jeevanjee, who took home one of these as part of Leisner Trigas Jeevanjee. View full entry