Great articles from Topos on Traffic. Especially the study on the Bangkok Skytrain. | A+T has a few articles from current issue on Common Space. | Japan Architect #60 (Yearbook 2005) is worth a browse. | Also AR finally has PDFs of 2005 emerging arch prizes. View full entry
The future of education looks bright and branded with the School of the Future in Philadelphia. Hey Francis Fukuyama, here is your end of history! NYT View full entry
Matthew McNutt is blind, but he had enough vision to float this business venture: a low-altitude camera for shots of building sites. McNutt's blimp has hovered over hundreds of construction sites and housing tracts to illustrate Southern California's building boom in a way few can visualize... View full entry
Domus' Ryugyong Hotel Call for Ideas finally has some projects appearing online... previous 1 l previous 2 View full entry
After much debate, developers in Mumbai are considering building highrises for the thousands of squatters there, in order to rid the city of them over the next 15 years. Though, as many are quick to point out, squatterscrapers are not the answer. View full entry
NYC-based Landscape Architect selected as Master Designer. Press Release | LA Times | Previously | Related View full entry
VerboseComa photo-documents last night's fire damage at NYC's Prada store. View full entry
Under pressure to get buildings developed 15 to 30 percent faster than just a few years ago, architects are dramatically changing how they work. TRIB View full entry
"At the halfway mark between the onslaught of Hurricane Katrina last year and the beginning of the 2006 hurricane season on June 1, the Army Corps of Engineers has completed only 16 percent of its planned repairs to New Orleans's battered flood protection system, according to corps... View full entry
In an amazing twist on history (Rowe > Ungers > Rem), Rem Koolhaas will return to his early (Delirious era) stomping ground in Ithaca, NY to design the stalled Cornell AAP facility, Milstein Hall. | cornell | discuss View full entry
The Discovery channel finds houses made out of trees designed by Mitchell Joachim, Lara Greden and Archinect's own Javier Arbona.The news story was also picked up by FARK bringing trolls out of the woodwork to chip in with their thoughts. View full entry
A great interview with Cecil Balmond in the Financial Times, meanders around with him as he discusses the non-linearity of form, the aesthetics of flux, and the simplicity of pattern which underlies the engineering complexities of his works. All the angles By Edwin Heathcote Published: January... View full entry
"A cave city, abandoned in the 1950s, has become the base for several high-technology companies," the BBC reports. "It is as if the hollowed-out rooms have jumped from the prehistoric era to the 21st Century." Welcome to the ancient Italian city of Matera, forgotten for decades, now connected to... View full entry
" The Architecture School and the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies will soon offer a joint degree program allowing future Yale architects to design sustainably, or to build with the environment in mind." Yaledailynews View full entry
Norman Foster has been hit with a huge tax bill, even while losing money (and contracts) in the UK market; Foster and Partners is now in the red, "losing money on a global operation that employs 534 staff and turns over £37 million a year." Building Design. View full entry