Thursday March 31 The Beta Movement: Anya Sirota, Steven Christensen, Jean Louis , Hollywood, CA Paul Rudolph Foundation Salon Series on Modern Architects , New York City, NY Landscape Architecture Firm, GGN’s Jennifer Guthrie Lectures , Los Angeles, CA Friday April 01 WAF is back! Entries... View full entry
Over at the Atlantic Magazine Kaid Benfield visited the Neighborhoods Go Green! exhibit at the American Institute of Architects headquarters. It shows off the LEED for ND rating system. Meanwhile Douglas McIntyre highlights some of The New American Ghost Towns. Over at the Atlantic Magazine Kaid... View full entry
Environmentalists says plans, which also include hotels and a marina, are 'complete madness' and warn public to be sceptical — guardian.co.uk
Yisrael Katz, the Israeli minister for transport, said the plan had been under consideration for many months and had been encouraged by Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister. He said it would also relieve Israel of the obligation to be the transit point for goods into the enclave. View full entry
Holl’s relationship with Mackintosh is about to get more intense. Last week, Glasgow City Council granted planning permission for the £50 million GSA building Holl designed to be built across Renfrew Street from the Mackintosh Building. — heraldscotland.com
Amanda Levete Architects has won the V&A’s Exhibition Road competition and will go on to develop their team’s concept design as part of the FuturePlan strategy for the museum. The ALA scheme will transform the remaining undeveloped quadrant of the V&A’s London headquarters and create an exciting new relationship with Exhibition Road and the surrounding South Kensington area. — bustler.net
Eduardo Souto de Moura from Porto, Portugal is the 2011 laureate of the Pritzker Prize, the professions highest honor. As a young architect, from 1974 to 1979, the now 58-year-old, worked in Alvaro Siza's office -- Siza having been the Pritzker Prize winner himself in 1992. This makes Moura the second Pritzker laureate to be chosen from Portugal. — bustler.net
Oh my God, it's an icon. How very last decade. Did the city of Seville not get the memo? Big, flashy buildings are out; hair shirts are in. — guardian.co.uk
The Guardian's Rowan Moore critiques Mr. H's new public structure in Spain. View full entry
News Anyone want to report back from the March 22nd event, Urbanism Now: Philadelphia2035?Discussion ThreadsHawkin notes that Zaha Hadid announced plans to make 100 staff redundant. Read more about the story in BD Online. Instead of just bitching Matt_A posted a link to a recent report/appeal for... View full entry
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The Royal Institute of British Architects have announced today that members are required to pay at least minimum wage to students working toward professional development credits. The Royal Institute of British Architects have announced today that members are required to pay at least minimum wage... View full entry
Thursday March 24 Community Engagement: A University School of Architecture as t , London, UK Fugitive Geographies , New Haven, CT Parallel Nippon: Contemporary Japanese Architecture 1996 , Houston, TX Fugitive Geographies: A Yale School of Architecture Graduate S , New Haven, CT Emerging Voices... View full entry
Edward Rothstein asks whether Holocaust museums should be more parochial than generalized, in their telling of history. Prompted by a visit to the recently opened The Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust, by Belzberg Architects. Edward Rothstein asks whether Holocaust museums should be more... View full entry
Andreas, at Harvard GSD, is slurping a cold and foggy bowl of sweet-sour Beijing experience: the demise of the neglected Olympic stadium site paired with a casual (dare we say...sentimentally human?) approach towards structures whose grandeur is fading faster than China is rising. Stephanie, at... View full entry
