More than 3,400 linear feet of high-output, high-efficiency fluorescent tubes were on, showing off the nighttime presence that museum officials and designers hope will crank up the “wow” quotient on the city's landscape. KC View full entry
New Welsh assembly building, Senedd, designed by Lord Richard Rogers will host its first debate today. The irony is that this expensive public building has had no controversy. l BBC1 l BBC2 l Pictures l View full entry
Swiss architects Herzog and de Meuron are working on a spectacular tower structure in the rebuilding of the Schatzalp Hotel above Davos in Switzerland. SkiPress View full entry
Unflappable bloggernector Geoff Manaugh posted an item for Inhabitat on Light Pollution as art and problem, especially as captured by landscape photographer David Allee. View full entry
Joy Press says, in this review of Mike Davis' 'Planet of Slums': it "bears too little of the vivid prose or narrative thrust that fueled books like City of Quartz and Late Victorian Holocausts, and what eloquence he does muster is smothered by the avalanche of figures and charts herded onto every... View full entry
Deyan Sudjic and Charles Jencks; Norman Foster's "gherkin" in London, Frank Gehry's Bilbao Guggenheim - is this the age of the iconic building? Or are they just expressions of political and architectural vanity? Two leading critics debate. Issue 111 / June 2005Prospect Magazine | related Feature View full entry
On Dec. 5, surf industrialist Grubby Clark did shut his doors, closing a 44-year-old Southern California business that manufactured the buoyant foam core of most of the world's surfboards.But inspiration has grown out of the chaos. Many in the surfing industry now see the end of Clark's... View full entry
"In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, cities like New Orleans -- much of which is still without power today -- face a housing crisis that's only exacerbated by uncertainty about what types of structures can withstand the next disaster." Wired invetigates. View full entry
Cheap living in a blown-up market. Renting NYC. View full entry
The Van Alen Institute and City Parks Association of Philidelphia have announced the five finalists and five honorable mentions for the Urban Voids competition. Read the PR. View the selections here:FINALISTS Ecosistema Urbano Architects Ltd Belinda Tato, Jose Luis Vallejo, Constantino Hurtado... View full entry
"You may not realize how significant a role architecture plays in shaping your moods, ideas, and decisions ..." Free Will Astrology | Previously: GEMINI (May 21-June 20) View full entry
"For more than a decade, McMansions have been a fixture on the American landscape. Now apartments are being supersized, too. Make way for the McCondo." NYT. View full entry
The government put the brakes until next year on the construction of two buildings in Peter Eisenman's massive Santiago city. The government wants to "reprogram" the works and will send the shell of the projects back to Eisenman. The mayor of Santiago expressed concern. News from Galicia (en... View full entry
Finally the wait is over for "couture homes." As if we didn't already know, "The confluence of fashion designer and architect is the next amenity." NY Times View full entry
The Snow Show (#3) returns with more head-to-head forced marriages, er, collaborations between artists and architects. Most deadly pairing? Yoko Ono and Arata Isozaki. | nytimes |note: Archinect's John Jourden is there throwing snowballs at prada-clad artists at this very moment. so, more to... View full entry