Archinect's own Bryan Finoki tackles the spatial and socio-economic problems of shantytowns, focusing on recent tragedies in the Philippines, at Inhabitat. View full entry
The 75th anniversary of the completion of the Empire State Building will occur on May 1, 2006. NYT View full entry
Gallery of green minded homes. Somewhere somebody says "We bought a small timber mill and, with a couple of carpenter, put up the house ourselves."cnn View full entry
US Census Bureau studies show Americans spend more time than ever commuting and for a growing number, getting to work takes more than an hour. Reuters View full entry
The last modernist building constructed in Rome was built by the Fascists in the 1930s. Today in Rome, however, that long drought has been quenched by the the inauguration of the Ara Pacis museum by Richard Meier. Reuters l previous View full entry
In the email bag, from Project Locus: "We are gearing up for a summer in New Orleans and our House of Dance and Feathers design-build." If you are interested, we have info, schedule and volunteer PDF's for downloading: Volunteering | Schedule | About the proposal View full entry
...Alain de Botton's The Architecture of Happiness is strangely old-fashioned. It is written beautifully and well researched, but underneath its aesthetically yearning, disillusioned surface, the argument firming up seems almost exactly that of HRH's A Vision of Britain, but without the balls... View full entry
I just opened Amazon and found this on my front page. A new Zumthor/Birkhauser hardcover is coming out. Reserve your copy now! View full entry
Local governments and ordinary citizens are saying 'no' to so-called Hummer houses and starter castles. Tactics include energy-consumption restrictions, petitions and outright building moratoriums. (in the US) so it seems like finally people are getting the point that it's pointless to develop... View full entry
Hadi Mirmiran One of Iran's Best Known and Best Loved Architects, whose architecture practice has been changing the contemporary Iranian architecture, died on April 19 (today) at the age of 61. Read View full entry
The architecture studio ReD | Research + Design has been selected as the winner of the Far Eastern International Digital Architecture Design Award-the 2005 FEIDAD Award... Project info + images | Info on the award | Info on FEIDAD | Info on ReD Promoted by the Eastern Memorial Foundation of the... View full entry
Is Islington Square, FAT's 23-unit social-housing project in east Manchester, postmodernism reborn? Fat chance. | guardian View full entry
Rebroadcast of reflections on the infamous architect Phillip Johnson organized and hosted by Terence Riley at MoMa with Robert AM Stern and Jeff Kipnis. WPS1 l related View full entry
When the Guangdong Tobacco Company solicited proposals for a new headquarters last fall, the company asked architects to incorporate measures for sustainability. The Chicago office of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill took the project as a challenge, submitting a design for a 300-meter tower that... View full entry
Twenty-eight young professionals have spent the past several weeks reading and selecting 30 essays to advance to Stage Two of the 2006 ArchVoices Essay Competition. As in past years, it has been proven to be a difficult task, with the 140 submissions invoking a wide range of perspectives... View full entry