Martha Thorne, associate curator of architecture at the Art Institute Chicago has been named Pritzker Architecture Prize Director. SunTimes View full entry
So much to read, so little time. Another scoopage of articles on the fronts of global urbanism. MappingMapping urban densities and energy: How can we build higher-density, more efficient, and still attractively livable cities without triggering either the LA "infill density" problem or the SF... View full entry
Arqa.com retransmits a newspaper interview with Eisenman and shows some recent work. I suspect some of the construction shots are from the Santiago de Compostela project but I'm not sure. If anyone would like to comment and confirm please do. View full entry
NEW YORK CITY is feverish with construction, from high-rises on the sedately residential Upper West Side to new towers designed by Frank Gehry proposed for Brooklyn. But with the city's pace of development showing no signs of slowing, community groups remain silent on one consequence of the... View full entry
If you want "Mediterranean ambience" in "an upscale moviegoing experience for the masses," along with some monkfish and high-tech escalators, then you're in luck: movie chains are redesigning multiplexes into film palaces - again. Back to the future... These "theaters are huge and, melding the... View full entry
So Steve Wynn, as we know, "boasts that [his new hotel on the Vegas Strip] is the most complex structure ever built. Yes, ever." So he gives *Wired* magazine an architectural and infrastructural backstage tour to explain why... The article's author does emphasize "the mere feat of building the... View full entry
Results in the International Ideas compy for the Seoul Performing Arts Center. via | prev View full entry
The Modern Architecture in East Africa around Independence conference closed on July 29, capping also a series of workshops with students on the theme. "Whilst the conference was focused on the modern heritage and the possible connection with the colonial and post-colonial political developments... View full entry
Coop Himmelb(l)au's expanison of the Akron Art Museum (under construction) is up for an American Architecture Award along with 33 other projects. ArtDaily View full entry
Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron to design the new home for the Parrish Art Museum in Southampton. Todd Eberle photos at SFMOMA. Ofili's Upper Room scandal at the Tate. ARTNET View full entry
Some careers cost time and money to take up. But don't expect a big paycheck (nor to get treated too nicely), says CNN, and guess who ranks worst. via discussion View full entry
Michael Brand to oversee the Center and the Villa. See news release at art.blogging.la | prev View full entry
BerkshireEagle. With an eye to creating a landscape that respects and enhances the relationship between the arts and nature, the Clark Art Institute unveiled the design for its new building yesterday morning, which architect Tadao Ando said he hopes will be "a small jewel installed in the... View full entry
"The complex, to be built in the Bohai Sea off the northern province of Hebei, is designed to have a generating capacity of 1 million kilowatts when completed in 2020." This is announced "as Chinese cities struggle with power shortages" and haze from rampant coal-burning. Yahoo But if you really... View full entry
If our goal in this competition was to create a beautful new t-shirt to add to our existing collection, then we have most definitely failed. Out of the 138 entries that we received our team of 8 editors have narrowed down the surprisingly bad submissions into a group of 8 finalists (we were... View full entry