Richard Meier , the master architect behind L.A.'s Getty Center and Barcelona's Museum of Contemporary Art, makes a case for minimalism. Esquire | Slideshow View full entry

Travelodge today opened its first hotel that was built using modified steel shipping containers - a construction model that the budget hotel group expects will lead to annual savings of £10m. Caterersearch View full entry

Arthur Erickson has been called Canada's most famous architect and the first to put Canadian architecture on the world map. But he is no longer allowed to call himself an architect, according to his home province's regulatory body. Or at least not when it comes to buildings currently going up... View full entry

125 years after construction on this giant masterpiece in Barcelona began, an influential group of Spanish artists, architects and art gallery directors are increasingly concerned the result will bear little resemblance to Gaudí's original vision of an architectural homage to God. The... View full entry

The video podcast of the Architectural League's Franzen Lecture on Architecture and Environment by Shigeru Ban is now online. (Shigeru Ban Architects are hiring) View full entry

Thanks to Steven Ward for this weeks submission. See after the jump. side a track 1: stellar vernacular: whenever something exceptional appears, it's always tempting to wonder from where it came. scott burnham thinks about this, apparently, and his nice little piece about potential vernacular... View full entry

Architect William McDonough draws his green-building techniques from the world around him. Before attending architecture school at Yale, he worked on a redevelopment project in Jordan and observed the clever way the Bedouins' tents utilized natural materials to protect them from the elements... View full entry

The sprawling Beijing Olympic Village won its own gold medal today for going green. U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson presented Chinese officials with the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold award during a short ceremony, saying the 160-acre Olympic Village could serve... View full entry

"Sustain and Develop, 306090 13" is seeking submissions from an international group of contributors. Deadline for submissions is December 1st '08, for publication in '09. This book will be edited by Jonathan D Solomon and Joshua Bolchover. More View full entry

A recent study by OSHA has found that the healthcare industry has some of the highest indexes of poor air quality outside of the manufacturing sector. Josephine Minutillo explores some design innovations and new approaches which have been used to improve the air quality in some recently... View full entry

Scott Burnham, curator of Urban Play, comes along with a very provocative theory connecting migrant workers' vernacular engineering and the famed Olympic Bird's Nest. "What I began to notice in almost every building is that, in the absence of formal safety equipment and structures, workers... View full entry

Yes, it’s a long term investment, says Ben Addy of Moxon Architects, but Ian Simpson of Ian Simpson Architects believes it makes no business sense. BD View full entry

Thursday August 14 /.EventsDateModule Global Brand Forum , Singapore - The Ritz-Carlton, Millenia Singapore Friday August 15 /.EventsDateModule SCI-Arc Gallery exhibition discussion: Lisa Iwamoto and Craig Scott with Eric Owen Moss , Los Angeles, CA - SCI-Arc Gallery Saturday August... View full entry

Architecture/Design firms such as SOM, IDEO, SMWM, BCV Architects, ROMA Design, Marta Fry Landscape, David Baker + Partners, CCS Architecture, Natoma Architects, and many others, are teaming up to design the inaugural edition of Slow Food Nation, taking place in San Francisco over Labor Day... View full entry

Slate 's Witold Rybczynski poses this question in Instant House, a slide-show essay about MoMA's Home Delivery exhibition. View full entry