YouTube member eager000002 posted about a dozen videos of different exhibits of the architecture biennale 06. While on Google videos you can find many more from forgemind.net View full entry
with 48 metres long and 3 metres high, it is one of the largest pieces of public art in London. Created by Ian Davenport and comissioned by Southwark Council to transform the space under a rail bridge in Bankside. evening standard | The Times | The telegraph | FT | PDF View full entry
as rendered in Half-Life. watch in YouTube. via notcot. View full entry
Petra Blaisse , the only designer in the world working successfully in both textiles and landscaping and Atelier Bow-Wow's seamless piece of parkitecture--the Hanamidori Cultural Centre are ICONed. View full entry
Opening tonight at the CCA Wattis Institute of Contemporary Arts in San Francisco. Humans Were Here! (Building in L.A.) will present the work of Barbara Bestor Architecture, Escher GuneWardena Architecture, Fritz Haeg Studio, Taalman Koch Architecture, Francois Perrin, and Alexis Rochas... View full entry
Eugene Kohn, the chairman of the NYC-based architecture firm Kohn Pedersen Fox, structural engineer Leslie Robertson, who has been responsible for hundreds of buildings around the world including the World Trade Center, and Carol Willis, the founder, director, and curator of The Skyscraper... View full entry
The Rudy Bruner Award is given to urban places that demonstrate the successful integration of effective process, meaningful values and good design. RBA winners are distinguished by their social, economic and contextual contributions to the urban environment, and often provide innovative solutions... View full entry
Geoff Manaugh serves up a new feature this week, in the form of a fascinating (and timely) discussion with Detlef Mertins, architect, author, theorist, and current department chair at Penn Design. Read View full entry
The SF Chronicle's John King discusses America's new experimental approach to hi-rise architecture, attributing the shift to 9/11. Read View full entry
The NY Times reports on our friends Laura Burkhalter and William Ki's Yurt (Ger) import business, and briefly interviews Archinect editors Evan Geisler and Denise Ip, as new Yurt owners... NY Times | Previously | Previously View full entry
Websites are already being loaded with tons of photos of the Architecture Biennale 06. Here are some galleries A | B | C | D via flickr, dezain and noticiasarquitectura View full entry
Birmingham's tallest building took three years to build and was completed in 1966. BBC | Flickr View full entry
Via Elektro Plankton check out photos of an abandoned housing project made out of circular pods in the outskirts of Taipei, Taiwan. Page 1 | page 2 | flickr View full entry
If you are in Vancouver near the end of this month, go check out Kyohei Sakaguchi's installation Zero Yen House. Based on his research of the informal architecture of Japan's urban homeless, and his book entitled the same, the exhibition will feature a portable dwelling that is evident of the... View full entry
Photos of the actual building in Foster and partners website, go to News and then click into the relevant item (I can't link directly due to their flash website). Previously | Discussion | (images after the jump...) View full entry