A £1m initiative to encourage young people from black and ethnic minorities to become architects has been launched by Cambridge-based architects RMJM... Read View full entry

Kieran Long editor of The Architects' Journal writes a solid, courageous and amusing critique of the Arsenale installations and Betsky's curatorial agenda. But all is not doom and gloom at least the Latin American architects are showing signs of a promising future. Must read >> View full entry

Five teams competing to design a new park for Manhattan’s West Side recently unveiled their proposals. Led by the Hudson Yards Development Corporation, the Hudson Park and Boulevard project will cover 4 acres stretching from West 33rd to West 42nd Street, between 10th and 11th... View full entry

Thursday October 09 /.EventsDateModule Seoul Design Olympiad 2008 , Seoul, Korea Kengo Kuma Lecture , The Art Institute of Chicago Rubloff Auditorium Ingalill & Roland Wahlroos-Ritter engage in loose talk with Neil Denari , Los Angeles, CA Jean Nouvel Talks in Australia , Sydney & Melbourne... View full entry

Hats off of to the fine folks at Praxis who are in double digits with issue 10 "Urban Matters." Come celebrate tomorrow (Friday, October 10) at Artists Space from 6pm-8pm. View full entry

Construction has been postponed at the 2,000-foot-tall Chicago Spire condo building due to the strains of the economy, though sales of units continue. Ty Warner, CEO and founder of Beanie Baby company, Ty Inc, just closed on the two-floor, 10,292-sf penthouse that had been for sale for $... View full entry

Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza picked up another significant honor yesterday: The Gold Medal from the Royal Institute of British Architects. That's on top of the Pritzker Prize he won in 1992 and a slew of other international awards he's landed during the course of a five-decade career... View full entry

We're about to launch gallery of architecture school lecture series posters here on Archinect. The audience will be able to view, download, print, comment, and finally vote on the school with the best (graphic) design sensibilities. Please send us your school's lecture series poster in PDF... View full entry

A hidden army of exploited immigrant workers are building Dubai's skyscrapers. Ghaith Abdul-Ahad visited the labour camps they inhabit to capture their lives. Read | Slideshow An excerpt...Down at the base of the pyramid are the labourers, waiters, hotel employees and unskilled workers from... View full entry

Winners of the second European Holcim Awards competition for projects and visions in sustainable construction were announced at a ceremony in Madrid. Total prize money of $270,000 was presented to ten projects that demonstrate the latest in eco-friendly and sustainable approaches from the... View full entry

Cars dominate cities, especially in America. But as many cities in other countries have found, removing cars can turn busy streets into lively public places. Now the U.S. is starting to catch on. Planetizen | prev. View full entry

Diller Scofidio + Renfro have a new website and Elizabeth Diller discusses "Productive Nihilism" and Architecture as/of special effects.Bruce Sterling's wisdom and wit are noted twice in a week here and here. GSAPP's "Solid States: Changing Time for Concrete" occured last week and one of our own... View full entry

"Smaller houses on smaller lots are the logical solution to the problem of affordability, yet density— and less affluent neighbors— are precisely what most communities fear most." - Witold Rybczynski, The Wilson Quartlerly View full entry

With Pile Up, the 78-year-old Swiss architect Hans Zwimpfer has come up with what he thinks is a solution to the problem of suburban sprawl and the long commutes and pollution that come with it. Take single-family houses, whose benefits — space, privacy, light, a yard — suburbanites... View full entry

For those of you who want to learn more about the real root causes of the current financial crisis, in simple english, there was a fantastic episode of This American Life on NPR this morning. The show was produced by Alex Blumberg and Adam Davidson of the equally awesome Planet Money. The episode... View full entry