Another Mies building is facing possible demolition, this time in the "gunnery" (AKA "watch stand" building) on a southwest corner of the campus of the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT). Edward Lifson has the details. View full entry
Room for Debate , a NYT blog, discusses possible futures for the endangered shopping mall. View full entry
Quilian is currently live blogging from the Ecological Urbanism conference at Harvard. Follow on his school blog... View full entry
Dave, at University of Maryland, is stoked: he gets to personally pick up Moshe Safdie, keynote speaker at UMD's quad conference. Maybe afterward, Dave can also announce his car as quasi historic monument, sanctified by Safdie's holy touch? Nick, at UC Berkeley, moves further south on his trip... View full entry
Frank Gehry has been selected to design a memorial for President Dwight D. Eisenhower in Washington, DC. The memorial is planned for a four-acre site just off the National Mall on Independence Avenue, across from the National Air and Space Museum. Bustler View full entry
If you're in Los Angeles you're already consumed with the plethora of events surrounding Postopolis! LA, including presentations by Archinect's own Orhan Ayyüce tonight at 5:40; Bryan Boyer tomorrow at 5:40; and Paul Petrunia moderating a school blogger panel with Emily Kemper, Scott... View full entry
Greek firm Archivirus have built what one out of 10 architecture students propose every year. Behold the Ramp House View full entry
Thank you to this week's advertisers, sponsors and partners who help keep Archinect alive and well! Brooklyn Digital Foundrysituate - International Sculpture CompetitionSCI-Arc Making + MeaningUCLA Architecture and Urban Design Jumpstart '09Boston Society of Architects The John M. Clancy... View full entry
HOK Sport & Venue has re-branded itself as Populous™. View full entry
According to vado retro "its worth watching." and "they were very open and laughed a lot. They only used the word iconic eight times and the term tabula rasa four times." Watch on Charlie Rose.com View full entry
SAM BOMPAS and Harry Parr have built painstakingly correct models of London’s St. Paul’s Cathedral and Millennium Bridge, and a Madrid airport terminal complete with tiny airplanes. Unfortunately for anyone curious to see these extravagant works of architecture, they were eaten long... View full entry
Urban coverage suffers another loss. Observer View full entry
The Singapore Tourism Board recently announced the winning design for the Singapore Pavilion at the 2010 Shanghai World Expo. See the winning design by Kay Ngee Tan Architects and two exciting finalist proposals by Design Act and Ministry of Design on Bustler. View full entry
Much anticipated mega event is starting today in Downtown Los Angeles. Many Archinect editors and student bloggers will participate. Open to public free on top of the Standard Hotel. Livestream between 5-11. See the schedule. Storefront for Art and Architecture View full entry
You might not be looking for new office space, or housing, or new stuff... but you do probably need the 2004 issue of Japanese PLAYBOY with Tadao Ando on the cover. This and so much more in the ArchMart. UPDATE: the Ando Playboy issue has been sold View full entry