It's no secret, Archinect loves it's advertisers! We'd like to take a moment to thank this week's advertisers for supporting Archinect!This weeks advertisers:Georgia PacificHarvard Career Discovery ProgramSCI-Arc MediaScapesORCHID 3DBoston Society of Architects - In the Pursuit of... View full entry

How modular DIY designs will bury the McMansion and usher in a new era of sustainable housing.Portfolio.com View full entry

Nicolai Ouroussoff reviews Jean Nouvel's recently opened Copenhagen Concert Hall, calling it "one of the most gorgeous buildings I have recently seen: a towering bright blue cube enveloped in seductive images". SpaceInvaded View full entry

Mari Fujita and Matthew Soules of the University of British Columbia School of Architecture have co-created what they call EcoMetropolitanism or EcoMet for short. It's a conceptual framework for transforming the modern city into a literal urban jungle. Read an article about the concept in TheTyee... View full entry

Designed by the small Viennese architectural firm Delugan Meissl, it is an angular, swaggering structure, rather as if Zaha Hadid discovered hard edges after a stern tutorial in the disciplines of mechanical engineering from men in white coats in the Porsche Entwicklungszentrum (R&D Centre)... View full entry

A chance discovery of a medieval clay oven has revealed that Moorish architects used powdered animal bones to protect the walls of fortresses close to the Alhambra Palace in southern Spain. Globe & Mail View full entry

the Universal World House is a $5,000, 390 square foot modular home, outfitted with plumbing and boarding facilities to support up to eight residents each. The secret of its construction is its "paper" shell; the resin-soaked cellulose, made from recycled paper, is shaped into honeycomb walls... View full entry

News The Organs of a city. There goes my new fancy, "Green" dorm.! Or maybe I will just have to build my own?Beware the possible monster's of "Green".Why couldn't this work in the U.S.A? Continued after the jump..FeaturesSeveral thousand Archinect visitors offered themselves up for the pulse test... View full entry

Architectural Record reports on Gehry's new digs. Previously | SpaceInvaded View full entry

Congrats to John for 10 years of A Daily Dose! View full entry

NYT: "The National Park Service and an organization representing victims’ families have reached a deal to buy the most critical piece of land needed for the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pa." & "The goal is to have the first part of the $56 million initial phase of the... View full entry

We like to think of the National Mall in Washington as immutable space: the permanent embodiment of the nation’s highest democratic ideals. But its history has been a roller-coaster ride of architectural controversy. Nicolai Ouroussoff NYT View full entry

Global warming may seem like an overwhelmingly complex problem to tackle. But one scientist thinks the answer is brilliantly simple: all we need is white paint. A lot of white paint. Guardian View full entry

Thursday January 15 /.EventsDateModule Narrative Space, a talk by Duncan McCauley Studio , New York, NY THE TREE CIRCUS OF AXEL ERLANDSON: by Mark Primack , Brooklyn, NY Independent Projects , The Urban Center, 457 Madison Avenue Mentorship Resume Workshop , AIA San Francisco, CA Friday January... View full entry

The NYT features architect Gary Chang's 344-square-foot, 24 room Hong Kong apartment. SpaceInvaded View full entry