We might have had a bleak end to 2008, but it was actually a good year for splendid buildings and inspiring architectural exhibitions. BD asks 18 major players in the business to pick out their highlights from the past year. BD View full entry
Take the jump to view a long list of Architecture & Design events ongoing throughout the holidays... The Rule of Regulations , Rotterdam, The Netherlands (until Friday December 19) ARCH SCHOOLS 2008 , New York, NY - Center for Architecture, AIA New York Chapter (until Friday December 19)... View full entry
A HUGE THANK YOU to the Archinect advertisers that help make this site possible. This weeks advertisers:Rotch Travelling ScholorshipLOG Journal for ArchitectureSCI-Arc / SCIFICTlabWiley Continuing Professional EducationLooking to get noticed? Archinect can help! If you are interested in... View full entry
Yale president Richard C. Levin describes in a budget letter how the school's reduction in funding will lead to a delay in new construction, including Foster's School of Management Campus. Via View full entry
For those of you in Ansan City, Korea, you'll want to check out an exciting new exhibition that opened today in the Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art. BIG INABA MAD MASS, as the title suggests, presents four proposals for Ansan by architects Bjarke Ingels, Jeffrey Inaba, Yansong Ma, and Minsuk Cho... View full entry
A year ago, actor Brad Pitt presented lot owners in the devastated Lower 9th Ward of New Orleans with a portfolio of designs by 13 well-regarded architects, saying, in essence, choose a design and your house will be built. The first six homes built by Pitt’s Make It Right Foundation are now... View full entry
December 15 /.EventsDateModule universal design award 2009 Rudy Bruner Award lebens(t)räume 2009 AIA San Francisco 2009 Design Awards December 19 /.EventsDateModule Discarded Dreams Mattress Recycling Competition December 20 /.EventsDateModule Lissone Design Award 2008 “Lighting... View full entry
Few weeks ago I posted the mostly model pics of Wyly Theatre by REX/OMA. A new flickr friend Super Bjorn of ACE Mentor Program just sent me his construction shots of the project. Builders and architects would appreciate these. jobsite pics View full entry
As the world's economy crumbles and concerns about energy and the environment become increasingly urgent, Versace serves up a proposal for a refrigerated beach in Dubai.The revolutionary beach will sit next to the new Palazzo Versace hotel and will include a system of heat-absorbing pipes built... View full entry
Last Saturday, President-elect Obama announced plans for a "public works construction program" that will be "the largest new investment in our national infrastructure since the creation of the federal highway system in the 1950s." Is he talking about architecture? I'm not getting my hopes up... View full entry
In the grays of winter, the last stop on any subway line can have a lonely, ominous feel. But when the new $530 million South Ferry station, the terminus of the No. 1 train, opens in January, it will have some added luminosity, thanks to a site-specific installation by the artists Doug and Mike... View full entry
"The mightylittle Edition" The big news on the interwebz this week: New Hatch Series Archinect T-Shirts have arrived.Elsewhere in the forum:DI Rankings for Arch Schools are causing the usual rumblings from those who find that interesting. The Economic Crisis is on everyone's mind. At press time... View full entry
The key goals of The Commons on Flickr are to firstly show hidden treasures in the world's public photography archives, and secondly to show how your input and knowledge can help make these collections even richer. Fantastic, copyright free imagery. Here is a result for Architecture > View full entry
Patricia Brown travels to Sea Ranch the once-idealistic second-home community, conceived of by the architects Charles W. Moore, Joseph Esherick, William Turnbull, Donlyn Lyndon, Richard Whitaker and the landscape architect Lawrence Halprin.NYT View full entry
Legal actions brought against Amish residents in Wisconsin and New York in the past year and a half for building without proper permits. yahoo news View full entry
