All the messy details come out about Googlers Sergey Brin's and Larry Page's extravagant desires for the interior of their "unusually large private jet." (Requests for hammock's??). Many architects will be able to relate to the allegations of whimsical design changes by way of the client and the... View full entry
The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust today announced plans for a $460 million housing development that will link the Downtown Cultural District with the Allegheny riverfront... Post Gazette The development, which features 700 rental and condominium units, will be along Fort Duquesne Boulevard between... View full entry
"...to lay a foundation for the conservation of our "virtual architecture", the environments and places that make up the synthetic worlds of video games. More commonly referred to as "levels", "maps" or "worlds", these environments are the stage for players' experiences in video games... View full entry
Hugh Pearman compares the diverging strategies of Luxembourg and Liverpool as both cities prepare to become European cities of Culture. The Times View full entry
nArchitects ' installation for SCAD in Provence, France called WindShape opened recently. See the construction diary for sequencing. View full entry
remember the milliondollarhomepage? well now the concept crossed over to buildings. art project? practical joke? do they really mean business? check it out >> View full entry
Finalists for the 2006 edition of the FAD Prize (catalan arch prizes for the best works done in the iberian peninsula last year) were announced four days ago. Apart of the traditional Architecture and Interior Design categories, the Exterior Spaces category has mutated into City and Landscape... View full entry
After building the City of arts and sciences, Valencia in Spain, won the bid to host next year's America's cup and enhance its regeneration strategy, but will it pay off? questions this article. and here a blogspot about the central building of the project by David Chipperfield. original &... View full entry
Frank Gehry is going to design the Guggenheim Foundation's largest museum in the United Arab Emirates, the BBC reports. It will cover 30,000 square metres, and is to be built in the capital city of Abu Dhabi. View full entry
"changes in London's public buildings and spaces are implanting models of control and infringement that may undermine the free civic life" writes Jan Willem Petersen in Open Democracy View full entry
Todd Saunders & Tommie Wilhelmsen collaborated on the recently opened lookout ramp in Aurland, Norway. | globemail View full entry
"The Fellowship: The Untold Story of Frank Lloyd Wright & the Taliesin Fellowship" is being billed as "a twisted and haunting tale of genius and ego, mysticism and charlatanism, violence, deep sexual dysfunction, and more." Foundation is worried about Frank Lloyd Wright book. Duluth News View full entry
Holmdel, N.J.'s Bell Labs...birthplace of the cell phone (and designed by Eero Saarinen) faces End button. Endgadget | NYT | previous View full entry
In honor of American Independence Day, Bryan Finoki's got a guest post on Inhabitat about innovations in housing for migrant workers in the U.S./Mexico borderlands. View full entry
The International Herald Tribune recalls the history of the annual Serpentine Gallery Pavillion commission, from the first in 2000 by Zaha Hadid, to this year's design by by Rem Koolhaas and Cecil Balmond. Read | Photos from this year's construction View full entry