"Expensive buildings cost more" A parody web site for the faux firm Architects Associates, who "design massive spaces that serves no purpose what-so-ever. ..[and] with lots of glass and exotic materials because it makes them practically impossible to engineer." View full entry
More news on the Moscow skyscraper by Foster and Partners. "MOSCOW's mayor has endorsed plans to build a tower, 600 metres high, designed by the British architect Lord Foster of Thames Bank. It is expected to be the tallest in Europe when it is completed in 2010." Times (w/ section) | thanks Reg! View full entry
The results are in, though only available through the university website. The competition website isn't updated yet... Link View full entry
Yelena Melnikova has dropped her claim to half of the 1920's Constructivist landmark. After 20m years of conflict its is now set to become a museum in honor of Konstantin Melnikov. Moscow Times View full entry
A stunning shortlist for the Toronto Waterfront: 1. Foster and Partners; 2. Stan Allen + WW; 3. TWBT + Lapena-Torres; 4. West 8; 5. Snøhetta + Sasaki + nArchitects + Weisz+Yoes + H3 + Balmori. | globemail View full entry
J.G. Ballard explores the desolate beaches of WWII Normandy and the Modernist ruins of Hitler's Atlantic wall, a "chain of fortifications that ran from the French coast all the way to Denmark and Norway... as indifferent to time as the pyramids... pockmarked by the shellfire of the attacking... View full entry
The Institute Without Boundaries launches its next research project called the World House Project. (Apps due April 28.) View full entry
The architecturally significant Soto-Michigan Jewish Community Center, the focal point of Jewish social and political communal life in Boyle Heights from the 1920s to the late 1950s, has disappeared under the wrecking ball. Via LA Observed. View full entry
Like a growing number of decisions involving landmark designations, [the choice to raze the Purchase Building] came in the wake of a stormy dispute. At the hearing, Adrian Benepe, the city's parks commissioner, deemed the Purchase Building "a substantial barrier" to the Brooklyn park, a... View full entry
and, other stories from business week architecture section. better than many magazines, if those the light readings you like, and slide shows you want to see. w/ provocative titles like the koolhaas kids come of age. View full entry
"Landscaper Kevin Larson announced Monday that, while he has enjoyed working as part of ensemble crews on smaller, low-budget projects, he is looking for a breakout lawn that will place him in the top tier of Columbia's lawn-care industry." Aye! This Onion stings too great, and cuts too deep! View full entry
"Okawara is not your typical architect: He's homeless. But the elegant austerity of his home and thousands of others like it has turned Japan's most destitute into unwitting purveyors of an emerging art form that's catching the eye of international connoisseurs. The homes - carefully built... View full entry
Calatrava waves his magic marker and secures planning approval for the Fordham Spire. "With this approval, we're on our way to adding another architectural treasure to this great city," says the developer. Crain's Chicago Business View full entry
GSD student Danny Forster was selected as the new (?) host of The Discovery Channel's Extreme Engineering, for his uncanny ability to "explain architecture to the average viewer." chronicle The Architect Sketch By ANNE K. WALTERS He could have been writing his master's thesis, but instead Danny... View full entry
"The Design Museum in London announced this morning the appointment of Deyan Sudjic as director. Sudjic, a respected journalist and critic, replaces Alice Rawsthorn, whose directorship ended on January 27... Sudjic is currently the architecture critic of London's Observer magazine, and the dean... View full entry