A random roundup of the best, or worst, (depending on your perspective) analysis of the swine flu pandemic (a harbinger of millennial urbanization effects to come?) : architecture(s) of global health (via nam) | The Diseased Utopia on bldgblog | la cumbia de la influenza (because Mexicans didn't... View full entry
The National Trust for Historic Preservation has released 2009's list of the 11 Most Endangered Historic Places. The list includes: Century Plaza Hotel, Los Angeles, CA Miami Marine Stadium, FL Dorchester Academy, Midway, GA Lāna'i City, HI Unity Temple, Oak Park, IL Ames Shovel Shops... View full entry
"Graduate education is the Detroit of higher learning", says Mark C. Taylor, chairman of Columbia's religion department. Taylor's op-ed in the NYT goes on to describe the need for Universities to adopt a more collaborative and cross-disciplinary approach to education. Discuss View full entry
Welcome to the Apocalypse, H1N1? Javier coins the term, "spatial bikeology". One of our own makes it to Washington and blogs about the team's project. Kirk announces the return of the Cult of MANIFESTO, along with booze. A Defense of the oppressed?? Local crack.Image after jump... View full entry
Samuel, at University of Tennessee, is very happy to announce that his team has secured a $75,000 grant as part of Phase II of the EPA's P3 Sustainable Design Competition. Congrats, Samuel! Tyler, at Dalhousie University, shows us what Prince Edward Island, Canada's smallest province, looks like... View full entry
In case you missed it, the twattish heir to the British throne, Prince Charles, has been caught out trying to subvert the planning process again - this time writing to the Qatari owners of the vast Chelsea Barracks site in west London, right next door to Wren's Royal Hospital - and very close... View full entry
Frank Gehry pulls out of Miami's New World Symphony Orchestra's concert hall project. via Guardian View full entry
As the economy continues to offer little to struggling architects, many are considering a return to school for an advanced degree. The increased competition now, however, is making it much more difficult to get accepted. According to this article, Yale's School of Architecture applications... View full entry
When the stock market crashed in October 1929, many ambitious plans that would have changed the face of New York simply vanished. NYT | related View full entry
The National Children’s Museum (NCM) unveiled plans for its new Pelli Clarke Pelli-designed building, slated to open in 2013 at National Harbor. Bustler View full entry
Spotted at Coachella... menu items include the Frank Behry, Mintimilism, and Mies Vanilla Rohe. Via Curbed View full entry
The 33 finalist projects of the 2009 Buckminster Fuller Challenge have been published. The entries range from a radical solution to human transportation in the world’s largest cities to a strategy to dramatically increase crop yields and economic development in remote African villages... View full entry
It's a big week for those of you that live in a big city. To be more specific, for those of you who live in New York, Los Angeles, Milan, Melbourne, Dubai, Savannah, London, San Francisco, & Paris. Take the jump to view the full list of this week's architecture and design events...Thursday... View full entry
Sam Bompas and Harry Parr, the men responsible for last year's Architectural Jelly Competition, have now conceived the Alcoholic Architecture bar in London. Guests spend 40 minutes in a room containing a vaporised mist made up of gin and tonic, wearing protective suits. BLDGBLOG View full entry
The economic crash has brought a decade of lavish “icon”-building to a halt. Does this mean an architecture of “excess” will be replaced by one of “relevance?” Frances Anderton speaks with Frank Gehry and Architecture for Humanity’s Cameron Sinclair... View full entry
