To help conserve energy the Beijing Municipal Construction Committee, the Beijing Municipal Commission of Urban Planning, and the Beijing Municipal Commission for Reform and Development have called for new guidelines in the heating and cooling of public buildings. Building must not be cooled... View full entry
I have no idea whether, in this dismal economic climate, the University of California will find the money to build its new art museum here. But if it fails, it will be a blow to those of us who champion provocative architecture in the United States. - Nicolai Ouroussoff, NYT View full entry
In the space of six months, five new arts venues are opening in and around Leicester, Derby and Nottingham - a £90m splurge, largely lottery-funded, that now seems at odds with these frugal times. Yet, while some of the venues follow the contemporary model of creating a "destination" others... View full entry
The proposed design takes the form of a sequence of origami-like, zigzag forms that somehow manage to conjure an image of some ultra-modern Bedouin tent hunkered down in the desert dunes of north Africa. These are early days, yet the form of the building does appear to be appropriate to its... View full entry
Radio profile on NPR's The World. Listen after the jump... Get the Flash Player to see this player. var archinect_mediaplayer = new SWFObject("/features/mp3player.swf", "line", "300", "20", "7"); archinect_mediaplayer.addVariable("file","http://archinect.com/temp/1124084.mp3")... View full entry
MY PLAYGROUND, a film by Kaspar Astrup Schröder, is a film about movement, tricking, freerunning and parkour in the urban space... The film will feature parkour, freerunning and tricking by freerunners TEAM JIYO. It will also feature interviews with urban planners, local politicians... View full entry
The Guggenheim Museum has appointed David van der Leer the museum's new assistant curator of architecture and design. ArtInfo View full entry
Fast Company reports from Greenbuild '08 where Oakland-based activist Van Jones predicts opportunities for new "green jobs" in the construction industry. View full entry
There is nothing timid about the ambitions of the new Museum of Islamic Art that opens [in Qatar] next week. Rising on its own island just off the city’s newly developed waterfront corniche, it is the centerpiece of an enormous effort to transform Qatar into an arts destination. Designed by... View full entry
On giant piles of trash left by a generation of New Yorkers, landscape architect James Corner is building a park that has the power to change the way we see the past and the future of the city.Read View full entry
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“What we are going to straighten out with this renovation are the accretions of 60 years of the building being used without the right discipline,” said Mr. Adlerstein, a Brooklyn-born architect who has previously tackled historic sites like Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty... View full entry
The crowd and speakers seemed sober and realistic, and expressed strongly that the combination of new political leadership, and an intertwining of market breakdown and energy crisis would give environmental design its best shot yet. Fast Company View full entry
Professor George Curry of the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) was named 2008 New York Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. SUNY View full entry
The Guardian's Steve Rose reports on the slowing down of development in the often-thought-invincible Dubai. "Projects are being pulled left right and centre," he said. "Unless they've been funded by a sovereign wealth fund, they're being pulled. A lot of things have to be redesigned more cheaply... View full entry
