The collection includes FLW's Guggenheim and Fallingwater. Take the jump to view images and read the full press release...FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT FOUNDATION ANNOUNCES NEW LICENSEEThe LEGO Group and Brickstructures, Inc. to produce and distribute Frank Lloyd Wright Collection® LEGO®... View full entry

Consultant Atkins’ confidential masterplanning work for Mecca has been leaked to YouTube. Previously View full entry

Lord Foster is to be the 29th laureate of the prestigious Prince of Asturias award for the Arts, it was announced today and will be formally presented with the prize at a ceremony in October in Oviedo. Bustler View full entry

The 2009 Annual Business and Professions Study, by Beaton Consulting, which surveyed more than 30,000 professional service firms, found architectural firms are more likely to be considered socially responsible than firms in other sectors. The architecture profession trumped the engineering... View full entry

Check out the folks from the Plataforma Networks (ArchDaily) on Chilean TV. Congrats. En español por youtube. (Gracias Leo) View full entry

Now, that is a waiting room!! Transportation is political. AMO does OMA and examines the afterlife of production. A readers reaction. Public/Private the reality. Three alliterative record stores so far. Any more? View full entry

This year, the Finnish government will merge three top universities in three diverse fields: Helsinki University of Technology, Helsinki School of Economics, and the University of Arts and Design in Helsinki. At first called Innovation University—sparking some debate about its relationship... View full entry

Maintenance costs trumped calls for preservation in the Third Church of Christ’s 18-year battle for demolition rights over its 16th Street building near the White House. Read | Previously on Archinect: 1|2 / Discuss View full entry

Miguel Robles-Durán in conversation with Hector Torres Casado, Venezuela's Vice-Minister of Housing. They speak about social identity and the production of spatial 'difference' in indigenous Venezuelan communities. Instead of providing generic solutions for statistical needs, Venezuelan... View full entry

A minor building by modernist architect Mies van der Rohe is under threat in Chicago. It's what he might have wanted. "Less is more" was Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's trademark phrase, but the minimalist modern master probably wouldn't appreciate the irony. If Chicago developers get their way, there... View full entry

Evan Douglis has just been announced the new Dean of the School of Architecture at Rennselear Polytechnic Institute. Douglis will be leaving his undergraduate chair position at Pratt. Take the jump to read the official announcement. I am pleased to announce the appointment of Evan Douglis as... View full entry

The world has finally fallen for the fiery, Iraqi-born architect, and nothing can stop her, she says. TimesOnline View full entry

Brad Pitt's Pink Project, featured on Archinect back in 2007, has just announced that eight new firms have been invited to design homes in New Orleans. The new firms include Gehry Partners; William McDonough + Partners; Atelier Hitoshi Abe; Kappe Architects/Planners; Elemental, Bild Design... View full entry

This weekend "The Piazza at Schmidt's" (aka the backyard of my apartment building) officially opens tomorrow in Philadelphia's Northern Liberties neighborhood. This may just be the best new (privately owned) public space to be built in the US in many years. The piazza and its surrounding... View full entry

Galois’s group theory allowed mathematicians to articulate the theory of symmetry. TimesOnline View full entry