Featured competition: The World of Color Awards – Inspired by VancevaBuilt to Inspire. Admired Around the World.http://www.worldofcolorawards.com This week we remind you of 20 upcoming deadlines and have 20 new competition listings to share with you... Featured competition: The World of... View full entry
It's travel season on Archinect! In addition to the awesome new Travel Blogs (check them out if you haven't yet!), Marlin has just gifted us with episode 13 of his ongoing Archinect Travels series. In this episode he visits Jean Nouvel's Guthrie Theater, presented by local architects Ralph Nelson... View full entry
Narrowly edging out Adjaye, Foster, and D+SR, Snohetta has been selected to design the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art extension wing. | Also: Bustler View full entry
Thursday July 22 /.EventsDateModule Ready Set Go: Houston Stage Designers , Houston, TX SUPERFRONT is proud to present OPEN HOUSE | STATE SECRETS , West Hollywood, CA Financing your Business , New York, NY Monday July 26 /.EventsDateModule What You Say and What They See: A Client Perspective on... View full entry
Last month I had the pleasure of attending the NeoCon World Trade Fair at the gigantic Merchandise Mart in Chicago, home to the event for the last 42 years. If you aren't already familiar with NeoCon, it's the largest design expo and conference in North America, attracting around 40,000 architects... View full entry
With his fascinating blog entry in 'Southern California Architectural History,' historian John Crosse documents the giant role of the underrated heroine of modernism in So. California, Pauline Gibling Schindler, the wife of famed architect R. M. Schindler, had on spreading it socially, as a... View full entry
Congratulations to our friend John Cary for his recent appointment as CEO and President of Next American City. Congratulations to our friend John Cary for his recent appointment as CEO and President of Next American City. Before joining Next American City, John served as executive director of San... View full entry
Decker Yeadon has created an artificial muscle prototype that moves in an ionic liquid and is made of carbon nanotubes. This new work advances recent achievements by the New York firm, in which they became the first architects to make a sheet of conductive carbon nanotubes, called buckypaper... View full entry
Wow ! Congrats to Lateral Office. In related news Lateral Office will be hosting a session at the 99th ACSA Annual Conference next March in Montreal, titled; Architecture’s Expanded Territories.NewsWow! Congrats to Lateral Office. In related news Lateral Office will be hosting a session at... View full entry
The Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement for the 12th International Architecture Exhibition (Venice, Giardini and Arsenale, 29th August – 21st November, 2010) has been awarded to the Dutch architect, Rem Koolhaas.The Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement for the 12th International... View full entry
Brooke Hodge, who we reported a little over a year ago was laid off from Los Angeles' Museum of Contemporary Art as curator of architecture and design, has now just been announced as the new director of exhibition management and publications at UCLA's Hammer Museum.Brooke Hodge, who we reported a... View full entry
Thursday July 15 /.EventsDateModule New Practices New York 2010 Exhibition , New York, NY Abstract Painting Exhibition by Kathy Toth , Toronto, Canada Friday July 16 /.EventsDateModule AA – NAi Design Workshop São Paulo , São Paulo, Brasil Saturday July 17 /.EventsDateModule MEDS... View full entry
The High Line’s success as an elevated park, its improbable evolution from old trestle into glittering urban amenity, has motivated a whole host of public officials and city planners to consider or revisit efforts to convert relics from their own industrial pasts into potential economic... View full entry
My German architect friend in Korea, Ralf Zabel, just updated me that the new website finally launched. Zabel and six other contributors saw a need in discussing and documenting Korean architecture also in English language and created the site as an international platform. My German architect... View full entry
Roger Ebert, acclaimed film critic, has become more of a cultural critic these days. He uses the web as his medium of choice since thyroid cancer rendered him unable to speak. Yesterday he posted a critique of modern architecture. In it he describes modernism like a virus, eating away at the... View full entry
