Can't find a copy of Icon in your town well the London issue is finally online with articles on Zaha, Pawson, Foster, FAT, Alsop, Dixon, Koolhaas?, and Adjaye. View full entry
The City of Chicago puts its money where its mouth is and offers up grants for green roofs. SunTimes View full entry
Biopresence , a UK art group, has invented a way to infuse your Loved Ones' DNA into trees, creating living memorials to the departed. Memorial Groves will never look the same. (Well, technically - they'll *look* the same, but not on the inside ...) Wired View full entry
"A confluence of forces - a cleaner river, empty lots created by vanished factories, a housing boom, the proliferation of suburban developers, a willingness by local officials to embrace a new source of tax revenues, and a crystallizing Hudson Valley consciousness - have come together in recent... View full entry
Yesterday the State Hermitage Museum (St. Petersburg) and the think tank AMO, part of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), have officially agreed to pursue a collaborative study of the future of the 21st-Century museum. The joint effort will be to define the Hermitage as a new... View full entry
Even BusinessWeek has caught the prefab housing bug: "Thanks to style-conscious architects," they say, "today's manufactured houses prove you can combine low cost and high design - and they're selling well." Which is all that matters. See BusinessWeek. And for more, check out the prefabulous and... View full entry
Here's an interview with Nick Hess of The Mad Housers, a legendary posse of shelter-builders and homeless/squatter advocates, started back in '87 by some Georgia Tech architecture grad students, who have been recently putting their guerilla resources into providing simple little houses for the... View full entry
New installment in "Inventioneering Architecture" series: Valerio Olgiati is Professor of Architecture at the Academy of Architecture of the Universita della Svizzera Italiana (USI), Mendrisio. His research addresses new methods of designing large buildings in terms of structure and organization... View full entry
Grand Intervention , a project of the USC Annenberg Norman Lear Center, seeks to open up the debate and design process for the planned 16-acre park in downtown Los Angeles to make sure the city gets the best park imaginable. Stretching between the iconic LA City Hall and the performing arts Music... View full entry
You read that right: with 60 miles of underground roads, and covering no less than 240 subterranean acres, a secret bunker-city is for sale in the UK. It was once "a munitions dump and a factory for military aircraft engines. It was equipped with what was then the second largest telephone... View full entry
The Baroque Frauenkirche dominates the city skyline again. The cranes and scaffolding which covered the Church of Our Lady have been removed. Reconstructing this building, including the relocation of stones from the rubble its an amazing achievement. BBC / the telegraph View full entry
The Chicago Architectural Club's Chicago Prize 2005 ideas competition for revisioning urban water tanks has selected winners and honorable mentions. previous Chicago Prize 2005 first place Rahman Polk - Chicago, IL second place Eric R. Hoffman - St. Louis, MO third place Francine LeClercq - New... View full entry
As Josh pointed out in the forum, a mobile phone entrepreneur in Melbourne hopes to build a high-rise in the shape of a (rather outdated) cell phone. yeah... View full entry
A Sarajevo-born researcher said he has discovered an ancient pyramid in the hills of central Bosnia.Osmanagić, who intensively researched on pyramids in Americas, Asia and Africa for the last 15 years and wrote several books on the subject, says he's quite sure he found the first pyramid in... View full entry
From the RIBA website: The winner of the 2005 Banister Fletcher Prize for the best book of the year on architecture is Cecil Balmond's, Informal (Prestel, 2002). Cecil Balmond will receive the award at a special ceremony at the Authors' Club on 26 October 2005. via View full entry