News A meme catching on? More architectural geomimicry. Related. A little bit of Korea in Vermont? Still not showing her age. Art should be useless. Really? Continued after the jump...DiscussionsFair use anyone? Dubai, first-handSchool Blogs Is architectural work outsourced, often? A tour of a... View full entry
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Grahm Balkany, an architecture student at IIT, has discovered that Walter Gropius may have had a heavy hand in the overall design of the South Side campus of Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago, which will be the site of the 2016 Olympics if Chicago's bid is accepted. ChiTri View full entry
No fee means no value, says the RIBA’s Jane Duncan, but Stuart McColl argues it is just a business tool. BD | prev. | related View full entry
A well known Florida firm's, RVL, chairman accused of operating his own firm while simultaneously serving as Revuelta Vega Leon's president. The accused was named Miami architect of the year in 2007 by the Miami chapter of the American Institute of Architects. miami herald View full entry
Edward Lifson translates a little French for us, from the Quebec news, "Mies van der Rohe can rest in peace: everything indicates that the old Esso Gas Station on Nuns' Island will remain standing." Continue | Previously View full entry
Thursday February 05 /.EventsDateModule Nature has all the answers , Materia Inspiration Centre, Enter, The Netherlands Drawing Lightscapes Exhibit , New York, NY Spaceship Earth Salon #1 , Stockholm, Sweden Friday February 06 /.EventsDateModule Scion’s National Art Tour INSTALLATION... View full entry
Niemeyer gives up his fight for Plaza of Sovereignty. Niemeyer says in a letter published Wednesday in the Correio Braziliense newspaper that he won't fight to build his envisioned "Plaza of Sovereignty" in Brasilia because the government has made clear it won't fund the project at the UNESCO... View full entry
Let's all give a round of applause to this week's line-up of Archinect advertisers!Woodbury University's new M.Arch ProgramGeorgia PacificHarvard Career Discovery ProgramInsight Constructability ServicesA NEW INFRASTRUCTURE: Innovative Transit Solutions for Los AngelesBoston Society of Architects... View full entry
Architect Lebbeus Woods shares illustrations he did in 1990 for Alien III, while hired by 20th Century Fox as a conceptual architect. View full entry
Thanks to all of you who submitted to [bracket]'s call for entries. Around 220 submissions arrived before the day ended yesterday. Mason and team will be organizing the entries in anticipation of the judging in Toronto. Good luck! View full entry
Norman Foster is set to be expelled from the House of Lords under new reforms drawn up by justice secretary Jack Straw. BD View full entry
A look at San Diego/Tijuana by architect Teddy Cruz and filmmaker Laura Hanna The Nation View full entry
Building on the success of the School of Architecture’s undergraduate program, Woodbury is launching a new Master of Architecture degree program that takes advantage of the diverse research opportunities in Southern California to produce critically effective and inventive designers who can... View full entry
The Vienna University of Economics and Business recently announced the complete list of winners of their major campus redesign competition. We have featured images of Zaha Hadid's winning entry for the new Library and Learning Center before, and here are more images of the campus master plan... View full entry