Toyo Ito redefines the interior of Mies' Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin for the coming exhibition Tokyo - Berlin / Berlin - Tokyo. We make money not art - via dezainUPDATE - construction photos have been uploaded to the gallery View full entry
SoundaXis looks at the overlap of architecture, music, and acoustics and runs June 1-11 in Toronto. Featured speakers are R. Murray Schafer, Juhani Pallasmaa, Bernhard Leitner, and Robert Essert. And a free exhibit of Xenakis drawings(!). View full entry
Mike Davis talks to BLDGBLOG about slum warfare, Ridley Scott, car bombs, post-urban corridors, and the mega-slum imaginary: Part One of a two-part interview. View full entry
Last year Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist and architect Carlos Martinez won a competition to redesign the public spaces of the "Bleicheli", the financial district of St. Gallen (regional capital of northeast Switzerland). The proposal "Stadtlounge" or "city lounge" is now built. Check the photos here... View full entry
A zero energy home in Oklahoma, according to futurist Roland Piquepaille, was built for under 200K. read in zdnet | more View full entry
The new landmark civic building designed by Cesar Pelli opened this weekend. MPL website / flickr View full entry
The name suits ”” too well. Clients wanted prefab, and instead got a creative architect's iteration of prefab. Twice over budget, construction a nightmare and it's still not finished. NYT View full entry
'Nile Street contains 175 homes, of which 128 count as "affordable". Unlike many other schemes where developers have been obliged to include social housing - there is no aesthetic difference between the different types of tenure. It's all one kind of architecture. There is no class divide.'... View full entry
A homeless shelter in East Sussex is turning to the Japanese pod hotel as a model for a new type of homeless accomodation, a space-efficient alternative "which incorporate a single bed, personal heating controls, easy-clean interior, storage space, alarm system and space for a dog." Observer. View full entry
The Grey Lady does architecture - China, H&dM, Holl, Khoury, Rogers, Libeskind, Katrina, Boym, Columbia, Jefferson. | nytimes View full entry
The show of works by Buckminster Fuller and Isamu Noguchi at the Noguchi Museum is a tribute to a great friendship between two minds teeming with ideas. NY Times View full entry
The Spanish team of Ana Somoza Jimenez, Angel Martines, Eva Sebastian Penin and Raquel Lozan have won the Thai Tsunami Memorial Conceptual Design Competition with their winning entry Mountain of Remembrance. BBC l IHT l previous View full entry
Miami is in the midst of a major building explosion, one that will almost certainly bring thousands of new residents into the downtown area. Like many cities around the country, Miami is trying to remake its business district into a place where people live, shop and play around the clock, instead... View full entry
Karim Rashid waxes psychotherapeutic about design in his new book Design Your Self. And Marc Levinson explains how the shipping container increased the world economy of useless crap in his new book The Box. Lopate View full entry
Michael Speaks interviews seven young LA-based practices involved with digital design and fabrication. Listen to the audio online or download MP4. Record Reveals: Los Angeles View full entry