The Architectural League just published the second in its nine-part pamphlet series exploring the impact of ubiquitous computing on architecture and urbanism. Written by Matthew Fuller and Usman Haque in the form of a quasi-license, the pamphlet considers what architecture can learn from the open... View full entry
New Yorkers will get a chance to see the Dymaxion, Buckminister Fuller's failed but inspiring car. One of three that was ever built will be on display at the Whitney this month in a show called, “Buckminster Fuller: Starting With the Universe.” The Dymaxion was placed at the zenith of... View full entry
Today, the Los Angeles Business Council (LABC) honored the region’s finest architecture design projects, including the new Los Angeles Green Building Award, at the 38th Annual Los Angeles Architectural Awards. Bustler Just a few selected winners... View full entry
The School Board voted Tuesday to move forward with plans to tear down a historic building at Riverview High School, ending a two-year-long effort by local activists to save it. The split vote -- 3 to 2 -- came after an hour of emotional comments from two dozen teachers, parents, community... View full entry
The first images of Herzog & de Meuron’s redesign of the proposed new 36,000-seat stadium for Portsmouth FC have been revealed. BD | related View full entry
Conceding the failure of the South Street Seaport pier as a “festival marketplace” — these days, it is not much more than a waterfront mall — its owners plan to replace it with a mixed-use project including a 42-story, 495-foot apartment and hotel tower, wrapped in a... View full entry
Times :"Roughly speaking, the show can be divided into two categories: works that propose new ideas of what architecture could be, and those that suggest alternative psychological readings of the architecture we already have"Phycho Buildings, May 28 - August 25 View full entry
Eastern Slovenia's new football stadium in Maribor, designed by OFIS Architects, is now complete. Images and info at Bustler. View full entry
Earlier this evening I had the distinct pleasure of attending the opening of New York Fast Forward>> Neil Denari Builds on the High Line, an exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York... Straight from the Museum Web site:As guests enter the Museum from Fifth Avenue, they step into a... View full entry
"The Bush administration is about to propose far-reaching new rules that would give people with disabilities greater access to tens of thousands of courtrooms, swimming pools, golf courses, stadiums, theaters, hotels and retail stores."new york times View full entry
Registration deadlines approaching... June 16 /.EventsDateModule Making Policy Public, call for designers June 17 /.EventsDateModule Millennium Promise Competition June 19 /.EventsDateModule Two Olympic Venues (Hockey and Shooting Olympic Center) for Madrid 2016 Three Olympic Venues (Olympic... View full entry
In an adjustment to a worsening economic climate, a triangular parking lot in downtown Brooklyn that originally was slated to be an Enrique Norten-designed public library will be developed instead by Two Trees Management as an Enrique Norten-designed mixed-use facility. NYSun View full entry
Chicago architect Walter A. Netsch dies at 88; designed UIC campus and Air Force Academy chapel. Chi Trib View full entry
InterContinental Hotels Group , one of the world�s largest hotel groups by number of rooms, today announced that a Hotel Indigo is coming to downtown Cleveland. Construction is expected to begin this fall on the adaptive reuse of the mid-century landmark Breuer Tower, with an... View full entry
EP #52 1. NYT Sunday Magazine Architecture IssueFluff or Stuff? 2. Decolonizing ArchitecturelinkRelated 1Related 2 3. Morph is off to Japan.linkRelated 4. Working for the VA?link 5. Orhan, now Famous?linkDirect Link 6. The answer is yes??link 7. Saving Sarasota?linkPreviously #1Previously #... View full entry