Thursday July 31 /.EventsDateModule Marmol Radziner Book Launch and Prefab House Tour Event , Los Angeles, CA Boutique City: Designing for Sale, 2A magazine, Dubai, call for articles , Dubai, UAE Friday August 01 /.EventsDateModule SPREE2011: LURI.watersystems , Berlin, Germany Saturday August... View full entry
Rampant paranoia threatens to make the 2008 games an act of damaging self-deception, writes Andrew Yang for The Architect's Newspaper. "Above all, what I blame most on the Olympics is how it implicates architecture in the fabrication of this whole spectacle, and even uses it to mask real urban... View full entry
Star architect Jacques Herzog, the man behind the new Olympic Stadium in Beijing, tells SPIEGEL his arena is a subversive place where people can meet in locations not easily monitored by officials. He also defends his decision to build for a regime criticized for human rights violations. Spiegel View full entry
From meme to manifesto in less than a week: Designer Daniel Neville picked up on a comment made by Bruce Sterling in response to a "pained screed" in Design Obsever last week about steampunk culture, and fleshed it out into a wonderfully witty Eamespunk Manifesto. At this pace, we should be... View full entry
Tycoon Richard Branson unveils space tourism jet. "If all of this goes to plan, we will have a hotel in space; and in that hotel I hope we will have small spaceships that can go around the Moon - an excursion," Sir RB said. If not, one back up plan; "It has enormous weight capability, so if there... View full entry
July 28 /.EventsDateModule International Competition for Inventive Architecture : Reinterpret July 31 /.EventsDateModule Line of Site Sketch Competition Picnic Green Challenge 2008 2008-09 Awards for Design Excellence (ADEX) SIA - Hunter Douglas Award 2008 King’s Cross Square Competition... View full entry
(The Guardian's) Kevin Rushby gets a sneak preview of the (Tschumi-designed) £100 million museum in Athens that aims to reunite the Parthenon marbles. Watch View full entry
Zaha Hadid has begun redesigning the rundown industrial city of Kartal, Turkey; Rem Koolhaas is designing Waterfront City, Dubai; Daniel Libeskind is designing the downtown of Orestad, a five-kilometer-long urban area south of Copenhagen; David Chipperfield won a competition in March to create a... View full entry
Mason dissects the plan in a fun new feature. Making a plan is a machine prescribing a set of actions and relationships, whose result is not only not yet known, but possibly not even relevant. View full entry
After the Games, the stadium will be redeveloped to include hotels, restaurants, supermarkets and shopping malls. The reconstruction will cost at least 300 million yuan and after it, commercial buildings will cover about 35 percent of the entire compound. "After the Games, it will become an... View full entry
Saturday July 26 /.EventsDateModule Marmol Radziner Book Launch Event , Santa Monica, CA Sunday July 27 /.EventsDateModule John Lautner House Tours #1 , Los Angeles, CA Tuesday July 29 /.EventsDateModule Shanghai: City of the Future? , Toronto, Canada - Royal Ontario Museum Wednesday July... View full entry
The July issue of Architect asked five architects/firms to redesign Starbucks - designLAB, Pentagram Architects, William E. Massie, Studio Works, and STUDIOS architecture. Read | More about Pentagram's design on their blog View full entry
Jean Nouvel's baths building opened last July 17th on Le Havre. A revitalisation project lead by the city in order to create together with the mandatory shopping centre a unique destination in the long term. Flickr photos - Press (in french) View full entry
A construction boom tied to the Olympics is threatening two types of housing in China’s capital. NYT View full entry
While a dark flood of pseudo-critical article's on Beijing's urban transformation is clogging the international press channels, few have focused on stadia other than the Cube or the Nest. Bert de Muynck | movingcities published in a recent issue of MARK Magazine 'Olympic Architecture'... View full entry
