eVolo skyscraper architecture competition winners. congrats to all... new visions for vertical habitation. go to www.evolo-arch.com View full entry
His practice has built 1,204,000 m2 in five years. His portfolio includes everything from skyscapers to traditional Chinese houses. Qingyun Ma, founder of MADA s.p.a.m., is the emblem of a new generation of Chinese architects who, despite having trained in Western countries, are indifferent to... View full entry
Tiny cottages are functional, affordable homes for hurricane survivors. "This isn't temporary housing," said Sandy Sorlien, a professor of photography at the University of Pennsylvania who is part of the process to rebuild the 11 Mississippi communities torn asunder by Katrina. "It is permanent... View full entry
The collaborative SDAT brings together architects and other professionals assembled from across the country to provide a roadmap for communities seeking to improve their sustainability - as defined by a community's ability to meet the environmental, economic, and social equity needs of today... View full entry
Village Voice : "September 11 was certainly unique, but what went on in the stairwells that day challenged assumptions that go into designing high-rise buildings everywhere. World Trade Center survivors hold a wealth of information that could translate into new ways of building structures to... View full entry
Lord Foster, the celebrated British architect, has been chosen to head a hugely controversial �184m scheme to remodel a swath of St Petersburg's historic centre. Guardian View full entry
Doing a little bit of browsing in the archi tag, I pulled up the following gems: welcome to HiddenPassageway.com, there is no fantasy | Gehry live from AGO | For those who must surround themselves with the finest of everything | Proceedings of the Athanasius Kircher Society » Blog... View full entry
Avant-garde arts foundation features face-off between world-class architects... February 13, 2006, NEW YORK -- The LVHRD Foundation is proud to announce that Vito Acconci of Acconci Studio and Peter Eisenman of Eisenman Architects are confirmed as the two competitors in the 2nd Annual... View full entry
Abstraction of Living is a comic-book world immersing the viewer in a story about the making (dreaming?) of architecture and its use. The riddle of the simultaneous representation of these can be said to go back to the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili and also recalls Archigram drawings. But no matter... View full entry
An update on the Melnikov legacy issue since the death of his son, Victor. Konstantin Melnikov is arguably the most important Russian avant-garde architect of the 1920s and 30s. | guardian | prev View full entry
"The design for a radical, new, 61-story skyscraper burst onto the Louisville scene Thursday, when Museum Plaza was unveiled to the public. But the story of the building began well before that. For the past five months, Courier-Journal staff writer Chris Poynter was granted access to the creative... View full entry
Geoff Manaugh is globally-warming Inhabitat! Latest blogorgylogical posting goes from visions to facts. Read | Previous View full entry
Everyone is a winner in the expansive Europan 8 competition. The yield from 75 different sites in 19 european countries is 61 winners, 82 runners-up, 60 honorable mentions. Europan 8 l previous View full entry
It can take 120 planes an hour, and they had to divert a river to build it. Is Richard Rogers' new airport terminal for Madrid just too big? Guardian View full entry
Gehry presented his design for a new Alzheimer's research center in Las Vegas on Saturday, unveiling an uneven stack of blocks anchoring a swooping trellis made of Gehry's signature contorted steel. Sorry, no image. But you can read about it here, and before. View full entry