I just heard the first installment in a Speaking of Faith ongoing series on The Ethics of Aid. Interested and looking around their site I found a couple of other interviews and radio features that may be of interest to designers including: -An in-depth look at Auburn's Rural Studio design program... View full entry

Sami Angawi, an expert Saudi architect, said he was “surprised and upset” to learn of confidential plans, leaked last week, in which the holiest Islamic city would be redesigned by “outsiders.” Times View full entry

Spanish intellectuals are calling the efforts to finish Gaudi's cathedral to be a disaster. artinfo View full entry

FOA has resigned from the Institute of Legal Medicine in Madrid’s City of Justice due to insufficient levels of funding for the project. (Official statement continued after the jump...) The new City of Justice in Madrid is an urban development project initiated by the Madrid Regional... View full entry

The AIA Board of Directors voted today to award the 2009 AIA Gold Medal to Australian architect Glenn Marcus Murcutt, Hon. FAIA. Murcutt was recognized by the AIA Board in large part for the depth of his work and the breadth of his influence. Bustler View full entry

Thursday December 04 /.EventsDateModule Vermeer’s Family Secrets: Genius, Discovery, and the Unknown Apprentice , Cooper Union NIGHT HAUNTS: A Journey through the London Night , New York OOZing: A Public Workshop with New York Prize Fellow Natalie Jeremijenko , New York, NY Friday December... View full entry

Hospitals are jumping on a trend that aims to infuse nature into the way buildings are designed and constructed. Biophilic design hinges on a belief that people feel better and heal more quickly when exposed to more natural settings. St Louis Post-Dispatch View full entry

The Daewoo Consortium and the municipality of Gwanggyo announced the MVRDV concept design for a dense city centre winner of the developer’s competition for the future new town of Gwanggyo, located 35km south of the Korean capital Seoul. The plan consists of a series of overgrown hill shaped... View full entry

Even as financial troubles mount around the world, some architects are betting on Central and South America. Architectural Record View full entry

Pantone, which provides color standards to design industries, specifically cites "mimosa," a vibrant shade of yellow. "It's just the most wonderful symbolic color of the future," says director of Pantone. yahoo View full entry

CNN, along with CareerBuilder, published a list of 15 jobs that make $60,000. Architects made the list. Interestingly, they project an 18% increase in the number of architects in the work force before 2016. It's not all gloom and doom. CNN View full entry

Kazys thinks that the 21st century has been a stinker for architecture. Rem's getting pimped by the Chinese, Gehry jumped the shark in Bilbao, and H&deM are the architectural equivalent of a warm glass of milk (I'm paraphrasing of course). He's looking for just five examples of significant... View full entry

Jessica, at Parsons The New School for Design, visits David Adjaye's NYC Office. Evan, at Knowlton School of Architecture, is only 36 hours away from lasercutting his final model and starts worrying about his building's program... A Center for Ants?, at UCLA, wins prizes with some "California... View full entry

Gensler sends us news and images about their latest project in China, destined to be the country's tallest. Take the jump for the press release, and visit the Gallery for images...Tallest Building in China Breaks GroundDesign Completes Super-Tall District, Showcases Sustainable Public Space... View full entry

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