The organisations behind the world's three leading environmental assessment tools (BREEAM, LEED and Green Star) are combining forces to come up with a common way to measure carbon emissions from new buildings. Read View full entry
Rafael Viñoly Architects (RVA) just announced the award of four independent Research Fellowships for 2009. Bustler View full entry
As we just announced on Bustler, earlier today [bracket] announced the selected projects and proposals for issue #1 "On Farming". Congratulations to those selected! We'll be publishing some of the other submissions here on Archinect in the coming weeks, leading up to the scheduled release of the... View full entry
The Baltimore Infill Survey is an informal Flickr-hosted gallery of user-submitted proposals for one specific vacant lot in Baltimore. Download the photo of the empty lot, flex your Photoshop skills, and upload to share with the community. Check it out | Via View full entry
I've been really enjoying Nick's UC Berkeley School Blog, especially since he started his world tour as part of his John K. Branner Fellowship. His Soundscrapes, "sonic slices through the global military atmosphere", are particular fascinating to follow as he traverses the globe. In his latest... View full entry
A builder in DC says "screw you" to his traditional neighbors and builds his 12-foot-wide mini skyscraper house. APT Therapy View full entry
Dutch firm VMX Architects designs a Hilton Hotel for the project Ordos100 (Mongolia), lead by Herzog & De Meuron and Ai Weiwei. Google-translation from Architectenweb (The Netherlands) | SpaceInvaded View full entry
News Double FOG, Once and twice. At least it is "techincally" legal. Who doesn't love some Brutality?. And why not?. Continued after the jump.....Discussions Any advice for a would be furniture maker ? "We as architects are very comfee with using the gaussian UV mapping of curvy form/diagram in... View full entry
The legendary Bauhaus movement turns 90 this year. The school was founded by a young architect, Walter Gropius, who wanted to shape products for the future and create a more just society. "We all lived together like siblings," reported Bauhaus student Ré Soupault. Anyone who came to study... View full entry
Thursday February 26 /.EventsDateModule David Kohn: The Hedghog and the Fox , London, UK The Future of Glass in the New Economy: A panel discussion with Mark DuBois, James O’Callaghan, Ma , New York, NY The Lyricism of Architecture in the Machine Age , London, United Kingdom - Barbican... View full entry
Just a reminder... the ArchMart has a number of new listings offering studio space for lease, housing, and goods for sale. View full entry
Mosholu Golf Course in the Bronx is one of a dozen run by the city’s Department of Parks and Recreation. Its compact layout is typical of New York’s urban courses—nine holes, tree-lined fairways, the odd sand bunker—save for one highly unusual obstacle: the $2.1 billion... View full entry
As reported on Archinect a year ago, Maurice Agis, 76, creator of Dreamspace, has been convicted of breaching health and safety laws related to the deaths of two visitors to his inflatable sculpture in the UK in the summer of '06, but was not convicted of his charged claim of manslaughter. BBC |... View full entry
The dome provides shelter for the homeless and is made from plastic, wire and packing peanuts. Pretty much, trash. Max walk away with $10,000 and a Dell laptop. Wow! (regarding the cash prize) GOM View full entry
Ada Louise Huxtable uses a critique of the renovation (restoration?) of Paul Rudolph Hall at Yale as the framework for an argument that "20th-century heritage is in crisis and in desperate need of a revised, realistic agenda..." WSJ View full entry
