The first in the three part series, this panel discussion, moderted by Deborah Snoonian, Senior Editor, Architectural Record, will include the brightest young stars in the architectural design community. Join the AIA Young Architects Forum as we listen to emerging voices--Chris Bardt and Kyna... View full entry
commentary by Sam Hall Kaplan (former LA Times architecture critic) for the LA Downtown News View full entry
A huge glass-and-steel cocoon has taken shape along a desolate stretch of the River Spree in Berlin. The dazzling, futuristic structure is the roof of the city's new Central train station, to be up and running in 2006. TIME Magazine takes a peak. View full entry
The Arkansas News Bureau goes on a tour of the interior of the new Clinton Presidential Library, set to open in November. previously: Clinton Library Revives Little Rock, Partisan EnmityClinton Library Going Up View full entry
Goodbye 18th-century country house, hello Prada suit, Neutra house and (K)noll furniture Mies van der Rohe skyscrapers, along with modernist homes by Richard Neutra and Gordon Bunshaft, now rank as the latest must-haves for a growing body of deep-pocketed collectors on both sides of the... View full entry
Part of the University's College of Arch & Planning program has been to work with the Native American Indians in the San Juan County, Utah. They are hoping their Bluff Design Studio will become more akin to Rural Studio. On Sunday the 18th, this home will be anointed with a Navajo ceremony... View full entry
In Tel Aviv, as opposed to the periphery, says a new fanzine ”˜Archisex', all architectural `facilities' - industrial zones, skyscrapers, elevators, car parks, bomb shelters, kiosks, convenience stores - are active sex sites in disguise. (via HAARETZ.com) View full entry
The LEED professional accredidation exam is going to be revised--and made more difficult, in September. So if you always wanted to be green, take the test before August 19th. Info View full entry
To further delve into the areas of art, architecture, design, and culture, Archinect unveils its new Views section. It's a unique new forum that we hope to nurture; we also want to develop discourse and critical thinking throughout the known archinected universe. It's like news, features, and... View full entry
Visual arts supremo Robert Hughes reveals himself erudite on the topics of girders, concrete and joists. (frm The Sydney Morning Herald) View full entry
a page (babelfish) w/ design images of Foster project for Saint-Etienne auditorium. More info available at Foster and Partners. (via) text from Foster's office: The Saint-Etienne Métropole has announced that Foster and Partners are the winners of an International Architectural... View full entry
...and he's got a review of the Tall Buildings exhibit at the MoMA QNS. (in case you hadn't heard, Muschamp "wants to do something else"). View full entry
From the IHT Recent events have played into the hands of those who believe that architecture has lost its way and become - in some cases fatally - too fancy for its own good. Last week's report on the collapse in May of the Paul Andreu-designed terminal at Charles de Gaulle airport outside Paris... View full entry
Marcin Panpuch's portable pod was on display in London for the RIBA Future House London Exhibit . View full entry
Almere and Milton Keynes are similar in all sorts of ways: newish, suburbanish, boringish. Each one is going for a major makeover (check local TV listings) - "If Milton Keynes is on a controlled weight-gain regime, Almere has gone for the architectural equivalent of a heart transplant." One hired... View full entry