Mies van der Rohe's bronze curtain walled masterpiece Seagram Building cost $36million to build. "Many architects have tried to duplicate it, but no building can compare to it." WSJ View full entry

We architects love toys, too. Obviously. How much luckier can we be when the latest electronic gadgets happen to be our daily design tools! Images and review of the Axiotron Modbook - through the eyes of an architect - after the jump... A recent trend in mobile computing devices are tablet PCs... View full entry

Is it still great architecture if your client's a despot? Today's ambitious designers are only the latest to confront the profession's central, Faustian quandary. Toronto Star View full entry

The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design, together with The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies and Metropolitan Arts Press Ltd., announce sixty-six (66) new distinguished buildings selected this year in the Museum’s prestigious “American... View full entry

These are lonely times for Lebbeus Woods. In the early 1990s this irreverent New York architect produced a series of dark and moody renderings that made him a cult figure among students and academics. Foreboding images of bombed-out cities populated by strange, parasitic structures, they seemed... View full entry

So you want to change the IDP experience? NCARB is looking for your input for their new website. Not that this will make IDP any better, but you can at least tell them how you feel. but you have till 5pm ET on monday... NCARB is in the process of redesigning its website (www.ncarb.org), and has... View full entry

Two new books this year have tackled the way we understand land use and personal responsibility towards both public and private space. On the private front, Fritz Haeg mobilizes suburban homeowners for an "attack on the front lawn" though his Edible Estates project, which transforms consumptive... View full entry

The architect Frank Gehry will no longer be a part of the project to build a permanent home for the Theater for a New Audience in the BAM Cultural District in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, the theater’s founder said Thursday. But the announcement came as a surprise to Mr. Gehry, who said he... View full entry

Thursday August 21 /.EventsDateModule Architecture & Design Showcase, featuring: the 2008 OAA Awards of Excellence & Twenty + Change , Toronto, ON Pecha Kucha Night Detroit , Detroit, Michigan 2nd IFS International Interior Design / Interior Architecture Conference , Edinburgh, United... View full entry

In Washington, D.C., about two blocks from the White House, there's a Christian Science church that looks more like a concrete fortress than a house of worship. The Third Church of Christ, Scientist is a hulking mass of raw concrete. "It's like a weird box in the middle of Washington, with bells... View full entry

Although, Pangu Plaza has not been garnering as much attention as the nearby Bird's Nest and Water Cube, the intrigue surrounding the plaza is being bolstered by reports that legions of corporate elites and celebrities have been visiting the complex. NYT View full entry

Dubai-based Timelinks, an environmental design company, is to unveil their vision of a 'city of the future' at the upcoming Cityscape Dubai. The city – called the Ziggurat project – will be in the shape of a futuristic pyramid which, according to Timelinks, could support an entire... View full entry

Swissmiss points out a great font for use with wayfinding design » FF Netto (Icons) View full entry

We have a new feature up - Liz Martin spends some time talking with the creators of a new reality television series aptly titled "Architecture School". The show, set to premiere tomorrow, August 20th, on the Sundance Channel, follows twelve students enrolled in the Design/Build Program at Tulane... View full entry

By now we've seen enough weird transmogrifications of the Bird's Nest into other objects, but these Lego renditions of the Water Cube and Nest are too good to pass up. View full entry