Möbius Modernism meets Möbius Futurism. View full entry
What happens in the cultural transfer of design concepts by European architecture schools in the context of a practical building programme? Can hegemonic relationships as discussed under the heading 'Postcolonial Studies' be excluded from the architecture debate, and what are the key instruments... View full entry
Ten years ago, New Scientist explored a post-human London. By 2556, for instance, the city should have reverted to a forest, iron and concrete structures will have collapsed, and Canary Wharf will have "sunk into the marsh." As a companion to The Earth Without People, you can read the whole thing... View full entry
The three finalists -- Hargreaves, Field Operations, and Mia Lehrer -- presented their ideas for the Cornfield, a 32-acre state park on the edge of downtown LA, linking it to a restored LA river. Field Ops (w Thom Mayne) departed from the brief with a radical proposal to demolish Dodgers Stadium... View full entry
this year's £20,000 Stirling Prize for architecture went to Richard Rogers. BBC View full entry
This week sort of shadowing the Stirling Prize, BD published a list of 10 nominees for the worst building of the UK prize. BD online View full entry
Many of the other buildings to scoop the prize have failed to live up to the praise heaped on them. Critics say architects have become detached from everyday life and are calling for a rethink of the prize so that buildings are judged on how well they stand up to use. guardian View full entry
Oct. 13 (Bloomberg) -- NM Rothschild & Sons Ltd., the family- owned U.K. investment bank that has been based in the same London building since 1809, hired Rem Koolhaas to design new headquarters in the city. View full entry
I'd take one as a second home in New Mexico. How about you? NYT | Previously: 1; 2; 3 View full entry
Developers love Brooklyn. So are the old remnants of Brooklyn's waterfront history which are so much a part of its urban memory, a place for preservation or are marquee waterfronts better locations for development and urban regeneration? BrooklynRail View full entry
Crews with backhoes and bulldozers on Thursday demolished the Pennsylvania school house where 10 Amish girls were gunned down. Reuters View full entry
Alain de Botton appears on Talk of the Nation to talk about his book, and to give us the new old idea of designs psychological affects on human nature. related View full entry
On the adaptive reuse of grain elevators: "If we were to hear that some have been turned into urban lofts and offices, or even into a Midwestern palatial homestead for a Hollywood mogul that has grown tired of Montana ranches, we wouldn't be surprised. And if we see them converted into... View full entry
Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk has been awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature. a-f in discussions l Google News View full entry
From the once overstuffed and half-baked idea of McMansions comes a more earnest view of living in concert with the earth--the idea of extra petite housing. HOOK View full entry