Friday October 03 /.EventsDateModule 2008 ASLA Annual Meeting & EXPO , Philadelphia, PA - Pennsylvania Convention Center ArchiFest 2008 , Singapore Tadao Ando Architecture: Challenges - Faithful to the Basis , Tokyo, Japan - Gallery Ma Saturday October 04 /.EventsDateModule TOKYO NONSENSE... View full entry
These are non-constraining, open-ended, and adaptable principles for an architecture of participation that can be used by any group of people, NGOs or urban planners interested in activating the collective intelligence of a community. AirootsWe “hacked” these 12 principles from Eric... View full entry
In this engrossing EG talk, architect Liz Diller shares her firm DS+R's more unusual work, including the Blur Building, whose walls are made of fog, and the revamped Alice Tully Hall, which is wrapped in glowing wooden skin. Video View full entry
To be fare, the plans for the London Olympic Games of 2012 stressed economic restrains from the very beginning. The latest proposal in order to reduce the overall venues budget is to import a flatpack basketball arena from Switzerland. Read on > View full entry
Remember Ushida Findlay's design of a villa for a Sheikh in Qatar? image > I just found a website with fantastic photos of this unfinished and seemingly abandoned building. 28Days Later forum> View full entry
The USS Intrepid, an aircraft carrier and iconic New York museum, returned to West Side after $115 million redo. "The Intrepid is back where it belongs, on the skyline of Manhattan.'' bloomberg View full entry
The Palace of Westminster and the Bank of England have been exposed as among the UK's least energy efficient public buildings by a new law to measure carbon dioxide emissions from the national estate. New buildings also fared badly, raising questions about the validity of sustainability claims... View full entry
The Chronicle of Higher Education reviews Antoine Predock’s new building for the University of New Mexico’s architecture school. Verdict, "the building is a kind of monument to openness."link View full entry
It will be celebrated on Monday. There is a poem to go with it;CHILD BE THE ARCHITECT OF A BETTER FUTURE Architect do you hear me calling I do not ask for much, better environment, planning and landscape...UIA. Sappy? Sentimental? That's right... Will you be there? View full entry
'Air Nick', at UC Berkeley, got up early today to discuss the Serpentine Pavilion directly with Gehry's architects, quote drop-dead beautiful poetry, realize that thesis is important after all, and close the day with a sexy Ingenhoven lecture. Oh my! Scott takes the chance to see 'his bro' Bjarke... View full entry
Le Project Triangle is one of those buildings that make us think that we may actually drive flying cars one day. To be completed by 2014 in the Porte de Versailles area in Paris, its most impressive feature is that, according to the architects, it won't cast shadows on adjacent buildings. The... View full entry
Columbia’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) along with its Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science will bring together leading architects, engineers and scholars for Solid States: Changing Time for Concrete from October 1-3. The conference... View full entry
O-14 will be featured in an upcoming television special entitled Impossible City, an hour-long documentary about the recent explosion of growth in Dubai, which is currently being produced by CBS News. It will air on the Discovery Channel at 10pm EST on Thursday, October 9th, 2008 and will be... View full entry
NY Times architecture critic Nicolai Ouroussoff, in his review for NY Times "Arts & Leisure" section, demonstrates astoundingly meanspirited wrongheadedness: He puts the brand new Museum of Arts and Design at the end of his top-seven list of New York City buildings that he believes ought to... View full entry
On a day when U.S. stocks lost billions of dollars in value, one museum got a little richer. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) at a press conference today announced a $55 million gift from Los Angeles-based philanthropists Lynda and Stewart Resnick, including $45 million for a new art... View full entry
