And then reveals the revisions for the Atlantic Yards -- minus his trademark bling. And landscape architect Laurie Olin proposed a 2-acre wildflower meadow on the rooftop -- for the birds -- but public access will still be restricted in what was once allocated space for a promised-park. Brooklyn... View full entry
The Bucky Fuller 'Tute has a new web presence, chock full of news and now also delivered via RSS. www.bfi.org View full entry
Zaha Hadid's Phæno "landscape for experimentation" opens tomorrow or the day after tomorrow if you are in America.www.phaeno.de View full entry
Canadian Architect offers free tickets to the International Architectural Roundtable at 2005 Construct Canada. Link and: Link View full entry
This is long overdue. Coming at you from perhaps the coolest site ever: Socialist era architecture in Slovakia : Instant balcony : Architecture for bicycles : Manifesto for an orchestrated urbanism : The MuscleBody View full entry
Welcome to the building boom, Long Island City, where "the number of projects under construction or slated to begin cannot be counted on one hand, or even two or three." As the NYT writes: "This year, new structures are rising on the horizon... the start of a long-predicted residential building... View full entry
Kerry Hill has won the design competition for the Western Australia Performing Arts Centre in Perth.Link The other shortlisted entries include John Wardle, JPW with Utzon, PTW with Jones Coulter Young and Kohn Pedersen Fox with Crawford Rattigan Architects and Cameron Chisholm Nicol. View full entry
Although this article is for graphic designers, some of these issues are fully applicable to our profession as well. Upstart the right way! via: www.graphicdefine.org View full entry
Israeli architects attempt to allocate within the synagogue an egalitarian space for women, traditionally relegated to the margins, while addressing the requirements of Orthodox Jewish law (halakha), the spatial separation of the sexes. Haaretz View full entry
ULI releases rebuilding N.O. report | Rebuilding should begin on high ground, group says | Panel Advises New Orleans to Relinquish Purse Strings | Seeing Life Outside New Orleans Alters Life Inside It | It's Worse Than You Think | Will New Orleans rise again? (By David Dixon of Goody Clancy and... View full entry
It's been reported already - by Pruned, for instance - but this week the Observer takes us to the indoor ski palace to beat all indoor ski palaces - in the middle of the desert: "this meteorological oddity is Ski Dubai, the third largest indoor slope in the world, where visitors will soon be able... View full entry
With 134 homes, 87 mobile homes and 52 apartments, Starke is a curious town of 56 hundred in one of Florida's most dangerous prison belts, "a community within a community" where correctional employees keep quiet about their instant city on suspiciously unmapped prison real estate. Video __ By... View full entry
Frame tells us what's been going on with this nomadic lab, now parked in LA. Frame. Graft. View full entry
A home design innovation that is, ahem, already on a roll in Europe will be available in this country in January. Executives at Renova, a Portuguese paper producer, introduced black toilet paper a few months ago in cutting-edge boutique hotels in Madrid; it has just appeared on shelves at... View full entry
This week, Clark, Texas, morphed into DISH in exchange for a decade of free satellite television from the DISH Network for the town's 55 homes. Read View full entry