As the Science Museum announces that it plans to use visitors' excrement to generate electricity, let us delve into the worldwide web of human and animal waste Another linkfest this time about energy generation courtesy of The Guardian View full entry
More about LA's Rodeo Dr. Prada store, scheduled to open this Friday, from the NY Times. View full entry
Just a reminder ... for those of you looking for work (or employees). View full entry
Architect Daniel Libeskind, designer of the original plan for redevelopment of the World Trade Center site, filed a lawsuit Tuesday claiming site developer Larry Silverstein owes him more than $843,000 for creative services. (frm Newsday) View full entry
Commotion Records released the beautifully composed soundtrack to the film My Architect this morning. Purchase here. Last week I had the privilege of interviewing both the filmmaker, Nathaniel Kahn (son of Louis Kahn), and the score's composer Joseph Vitarelli. Besides being extremely talented... View full entry
“Hoboken Island” is the memorial concept submitted by the FLOW Group (Janet Echelman, Jeanne Gang, Peter Heppel, Domingo Gonzalez) and selected by the Memorial Fund Committee. LINK other finalists included Brian Tolle and Frederic Schwartz, Krzysztof Wodiczko and Julian Bonder... View full entry
After the high-profile discovery of the historic site nearly 15 years ago and the announcement of an RFP for a memorial design in 1997, the project has fallen off the GSA's and the public's radar. Deborah Grossberg reports in the Architect's Newspaper on the controversial competition and public... View full entry
U.S. architect Peter Eisenman talks to the media between concrete pillars at the construction site for the Holocaust memorial in Berlin July 12, 2004. The approximately 19,000 square-metre-site for the Memorial is located on the edge of the Grosser Tiergarten between Ebertstrasse and... View full entry
BCNews event: Doug Aitken's ongoing installation at Caixa Forum presents his major pieces, i am in you, blow debris, and interiors, as well as a selection of photographs from the plateau series. It also includes a new piece by Aitken, skyliner, produced specially for the occasion, a work that... View full entry
They're bold, sophisticated and impossible to ignore. But are 'landmark' buildings ruining our cities, asks Graham Morrison... From the Guardian View full entry
"It's hard to imagine a more stormy marriage than that between politics and architecture. " That says it all, but the Scottish Parliament is almost finished. The BBC takes a look... View full entry
A 70-foot section of the wall crumbled one day in February, startling San Juan residents who thought it would last an eternity. - NYTimes View full entry
Site as soap opera, lockouts and lawsuits in the LA Downtown News. View full entry
Elevated Visions by Julie Iovine in the NYTimes premieres some of the features of the soon-to-be-public High Line proposals. The article mentions the previous iteration of the competition where 720 entries from 36 countries fleshed-out "ideas," but does not raise issue with how it was used as a... View full entry
"Philosopher of Everyday Life" Alain de Botton op-ed in the NYTimes on the state of architecture... Says: "The skeptics are certainly right in one regard: the last decade has witnessed a sharp rise in the number of buildings whose design seems motivated not primarily by any functional goal but by... View full entry