While on his current tour David Bryne had a chance to visit both Libeskind's addition to the Denver Art Musuem and Calatrava's addition to the Milwaukee Art Museum. Read what he thoughtDAM and MAM View full entry
The paparazzi should have been hiding in the hedges that evening. Cindy Crawford, Goldie Hawn, John Mayer, and some 50 other Hollywood and media types were gathered in the Malibu home of one of L.A.'s biggest power brokers, Universal Studios president Ron Meyer, and his wife, Kelly. The guest of... View full entry
We have some excellent new features to keep you busy this week:Stairway to Architecture Guest contributor Matthew Arnold guides us on a tour along the rocky road to architectural licensure.ShowCase: John Lewis Department Store and Cineplex by FOA This week we show off the latest built project by... View full entry
In a Q&A with the ASLA, Alexandros Washburn (Urban Design Chief, New York City) discusses PlaNYC, similarities between biological change and urban growth, green roofs, and blue roofs. ASLA News View full entry
News The effects of the financial downturn are hitting architects,housing, NYCand even the cutting edge?,Some supply a lifeline, others speculate... DiscussionsA Meta Vegas; On building a synecdocheA report from the frontlines?A green paradox? related School Blogs Read reviews and summaries of... View full entry
Workers renovating a rugby stadium have uncovered a vast complex of tombs beneath Rome that mimic the houses, blocks and streets of a real city, according to officials, who have unveiled a series of new finds. CNN View full entry
In the last eight years, NYC-based SHoP has gone from five graduates of Columbia Architecture School sitting around a kitchen table in a Murray Hill loft to one of the best architecture firms in the world, redesigning the Fashion Institute of Technology, building Google's first-ever ground-up... View full entry
The Guardian reports on the personal and professional separation of UK-based Future Systems. Read View full entry
Scott, at UCLA, has been a busy boy blogging on concrete hovercrafts with a view, Nader Tehrani lectures (did somebody say "Bob's Naked Men Twister"?), and all sorts of crit craziness. Erica, at Waterloo School of Architecture, might get a little squirrely on her second post after jetting around... View full entry
The best seats on Broadway are now absolutely free. After the longest out-of-town tryout in history, a new TKTS booth opened on Thursday in Duffy Square, eight years later and nine times costlier than originally estimated.NYT View full entry
The plunging financial markets this month, followed by unprecedented responses from the federal government, have left many Americans bracing for a deep recession. In the architecture profession, however, the downturn has already arrived, according to a key measure of the market for architectural... View full entry
Thursday October 16 /.EventsDateModule Mobius LA , Los Angeles, CA - West Hollywood Pacific Design Center ACADIA 2008: Silicon + Skin , Minneapolis, MN Hong Kong | New York - Vertical Density | Sustainable Solutions , New York, NY - The Skyscraper Museum ADC Series: Opposites Attract , New York... View full entry
THOMAS SMALL is an accomplished cook, so it’s important for him to try new and exotic ingredients every now and then. When it came to the construction of his eco-friendly house, that’s exactly what his architects gave him. After all, crushed sunflower husks and shredded blue jeans... View full entry
A series of tunnels that run underneath central London and were used for communications during the Cold War have gone on sale for an estimated £5m.BBC Slideshow View full entry
Archinect correspondent Douglas Milburn is transmitting live coverage from the 52nd World Congress of the International Federation of Housing and Planning (IFHP). The International Federation for Housing and Planning (IFHP) is a world-wide network of professional institutions and individuals of... View full entry
