Women’s Wear Daily recently commissioned seven architects to envision the future of NYC's fashion district. One proposal that caught our attention by Pentagram's James Biber. His concept proposes a series of horizontal skyscrapers connecting "various showrooms, designers, sales forces... View full entry

Metropolis Magazine asked eight leading architecture firms to each submit one recent K-12 school project representing innovative solutions for the post-911 baby boom. Read View full entry

Thursday February 19 /.EventsDateModule NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH: WRITERS’ BLOCK , New York, NY Super Slender Midtown Towers , New York, NY Steven Holl in Films and Conversations with the Architects , New York, NY Le Corbusier — The Art of Architecture , London, United Kingdom - Barbican... View full entry

Quilian, at Harvard University - GSD, has it for us: the Spring 09 Lecture Poster. Careful, crazy pattern ahead! Nick, at UC Berkeley, continued his fellowship travels and has arrived in Korea from Honolulu. Listen in to his podcast with soundscraps from Panama, Hawaii, and Tijuana. Tyler, at... View full entry

Acorn Building Design Associates of Mansfield have been ordered to pay a record £7,340 for breaching the Architects Act by using the title "architect" when not on the Arb register. BD | Discuss this issue in the forum View full entry

I realize these speculative visionary proposals can be a little hard to swallow while the economy continues to drill a hole into the center of the earth, but there are some really beautiful formal investigations in MAD's Huaxi City proposals, so we're going to serve them up. Pretend it's the good... View full entry

Pathbreaking African-American architect passed away this morning. “In recent weeks, we gained a president, but we have lost a king,” said James Polshek. The Architect's Newspaper View full entry

Congratulations to University of Toronto School Blogger Kelly Doran for winning the Prix de Rome in Architecture for Emerging Practitioners. Visit Bustler for the news View full entry

So you’re laid up in bed with the flu like everyone else, with nothing to do but chug Emergen-C, ride the NyQuil train, and gaze glassy-eyed at hours of DVR’ed shows that you’d usually let languish. When even keeping your eyes open starts to hurt, queue up this mixtape and zonk... View full entry

Energy bills will be a thing of the past in the 'eco-house' of the future thanks to a combination of the latest renewable energy technology and building techniques from hundreds of years ago. Telegraph View full entry

Belgium opened a new €20 million "zero emissions" polar science station in Antarctica on Sunday, returning to the continent to study climate change 42 years after closing its first base there. IHT View full entry

Coney Island was once known as the world’s largest playground, where millions of working- and middle-class New Yorkers prowled an anarchic, pulsating bazaarmg of bathhouses, freak shows, dance halls, carousels, roller coasters, chop suey parlors, hotels, hot dog stands and game booths... View full entry

Can architecture end a war? Steve Rose travels to Israel to see Peace House, a new building with big ambitions -and a bomb shelter on every floor.Guardian View full entry

First a shout out to guest editor Dreader than dreadTVCC on fire! Buildings are getting cut in half, moved around, and are having slums built inside of them. Didn't they see this coming? What is the future of Los Angeles infrastructure? Cancel student loan debt? And lastly, I'm glad to see that... View full entry

An architect frustrated by government thinking on school design has brought to fruition a remarkable riposte.Guardian View full entry