President-elect Barack Obama has picked the widely respected housing commissioner for New York City, Shaun Donovan, to be the secretary of housing in his cabinet. NYT View full entry
Ed Mazria is the first architect to propose how to use all the money the Government will soon be spending on new construction and building upgrades. daily kos | The Plan (pdf) | Previous View full entry
The spring 2009 issue of the digital arts publication Vague Terrain is focused on the representation of urban space. The issue aspires to provide a "... a global index of strategies for abstracting, quantifying and documenting urban life." Urban diagramming, video-based work, theory essays and... View full entry
We've finally added a new member to our t-shirt family! The new series is based on CAD hatch patterns, with all your favorite materials included: concrete, wood, steel, glass, and grass. Each shirt is printed on a material-matching color American Apparel shirt. We've also re-printed some black on... View full entry
Thursday December 11 /.EventsDateModule The Colloquy of Things: Philip Beesley, Marc Bohlen, Natalie Jeremijenko; moderated by Omar Khan , The Urban Center, 457 Madison Avenue Saturday December 13 /.EventsDateModule Complete Communion Celebration , Los Angeles, CA Wednesday December... View full entry
Foster + Partners presented their designs on Monday to the Yale community for the new School of Management building. Sir Norman Foster graduated from Yale in 1962. Images and info at Yale.edu, Via View full entry
NPR profiles Tyson's Corner, VA, which county planners and urbanists intend to transform over the next 30 years into a denser, walkable community. Included is Robert Siegel's hazardous and yet familiar stroll through an area that was built not for strolls, but for cars. View full entry
It may seem low on anyone's list of priorities at this moment of political change and economic crisis, but now that Ed Stone's little seraglio has been converted into the new home of the Museum of Arts and Design and the reviews have set some kind of record for irresponsible over-the-top... View full entry
China is frenetically searching for a CCTV nickname. One name in the running, recently pushed and illustrated by the Shanghai Press, is "The Big Underpants Building". MovingCities adds in "Mocking the Monument" some last Sunday's snapshots of CCTV to the story. View full entry
Nick Paumgarten wonders what will NYC will look like as a result of the economic downturn. Specifically, he offers some suggestions on how the empty pits (voids left over from the buildings that won't be built) can be re-purposed. Swimming pools, or debtors prisons anyone?The New Yorker via... View full entry
Last weekend I helped my friend Glen Small store his stuff in a rented garage. Glen is 75 y.o., dissed by starstruck American architectural realm and moved to Nicaragua permanently (as of today). more ************************ Glen Small moves to Nicaragua Last weekend I helped my friend Glen... View full entry
We've set up a new section called ArchMart to help our community connect with each other. Consider it a mini-Craigslist, specifically for architects and designers. Our industry is in the middle of a transitional period and we'd like to help by offering our members a place to share information... View full entry
The annual year end list madness begins. Interestingly, this list includes proposed but unbuilt designs, restorations, bike racks and civic infrastructure.The Top Ten Designs View full entry
Today we examine what people had to say....News"The pilgrimage is something that needs be realized as much as the architecture""Just need a little brain salad surgery ...""there should be a building among a '00s top five that would exemplify the building-as-landscape type that has developed over... View full entry
Obama is increasingly talking about upgrading and adding to the Government's building stock. One can only hope that as this plan is developed they include innovative designers from all fields in this ambitious plan. Then again, maybe we can demand it. View full entry
