"we will publish the final issue of the ArchVoices newsletter. ArchVoices will continue to exist as an active nonprofit organization and think tank, as it has since our incorporation in 2002." Huh? :( View full entry
Greening Greenport, phase two. Waterfront's 10-year, $16-million face-lift could be model for NYC site by J. Davidson, Newsday | I Came, Eyesore, I Conquered: Perimeter security is ugly and may not keep us safe. W. Rybczynski for Slate | Marked for demolition, Kenilworth house is worth saving. B... View full entry
Mies' entire 120-acre Illinois Institute of Technology enters the pantheon of National Register of Historic Places. | suntimes | more View full entry
Good words for AUDC's One Wilshire exhibit in the LA Weekly: "The exhibition explores “The Palace of the Empire of Ether,” a building crammed full of the hardware and global capital needed to keep the Internet and telecommunications alive. We quickly understand that cyberspace... View full entry
RCR Arquitectes gets playful with kid friendly and mother approved minimalist school near Barcelona. Frame View full entry
Online studies/papers on women, housing, and inheritance in sub-Saharan Africa and residential segregation and social exclusion in Brazilian housing markets. Eldis View full entry
Core77's Deena DeNaro spells out the words on this years Rotterdam Architecture Biennale which took place this past June. View full entry
A destroyed landscape reappears - by being submerged. Atlantis in reverse? No, it's the terrestrial legacy of Saddam Hussein and his First World backers: BBC View full entry
Like a cartographic dream come true, two U of Oregon professors have created an interactive Nolli plan. (read news). "The public now has access to cataloged information about the map in both written and graphical form. The map not only provides rich information, but it has the ability to be... View full entry
Conflicting reports on architects wages. Now, architect salaries are on the rise ... according to the AIA. | bizjrnl | prev | related View full entry
New York's New Architecture District from today's times - the healthy hive at 147 Essex. View full entry
Temporarily adding a nomadic landmass to archipelago New York, Robert Smithson's long-unrealized plan for an artificial island (a towed barge planted with trees and plants) to partially circumnavigate Manhattan will be posthumously realized next month: "The project, budgeted at around $... View full entry
Gehry likes it, helps buy it: Frank "the broker" clinches the real estate deal on Chicago's classic Inland Steel Building. And Blair Kamin pulls back the curtain to see how. AKA 30 W. Monroe, it's an SOM original and perhaps soon to go by another name as the landlords shop for a new main tenant... View full entry
Newsday's real estate reporter explores some new urban parasites: "Homes have sprouted up on the rooftops of drab Manhattan buildings; homes such as solid Dutch Colonials and capes, sleek chalets, modern Decos, and even log cabins. Some stand out, while others blend in architecturally with the... View full entry
David Adjaye and the Nobel Peace Centre in Norway's capital, Oslo, featured in Gabion. | via dezain View full entry