More about the 2008 Pritzker Prize Laurate, mr. Jean Nouvel: "If President Sarkozy has anything to do with it, Paris might yet join London in its quest to raise its skyline heavenwards - though in the name of Mammon and bling, rather than God and culture. If this does happen, perhaps Paris - in... View full entry
Listen to Bruce Fowle discuss three of Manhattan's most iconic buildings, including his own... ARecord View full entry
A celebration of the life of architect Nader Khalili, who died March 5, is scheduled from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday March 29 at the Cal-Earth Institute, which Khalili founded. The institute is at 10177 Baldy Lane, Hesperia. Details and directions can be found at calearth.org | previously View full entry
Albert Speer, the son of Hitler's architect, gets some coverage in the Telegraph.Junior, left, with dad and Hitler drafting world domination on the right. View full entry
Architectural genius or canny marketer? Libeskind showed some of both in a recent interview in his Lower Manhattan office. Bloomberg View full entry
James Dyson's School of Design Innovation took a major step forward last night as councilors ignored planning officers' advice and voted in favor of the scheme. BD | Wilkinson Eyre View full entry
David Adjaye will receive an "Order of the British Empire" (OBE) for his services to architecture. This is the "officer" position, the 4th of 5 classes in civil and military divisions. The top two entail admission into knighthood. View full entry
Plasma Studio has won the fourth annual Next Generation Architects Award. The studio, which employs 10 architects, was founded by Eva Castro and Holger Kehne in London in 1999, and now has a second office in Italy. The firm won BD’s Young Architect of the Year in 2002, but has yet to... View full entry
The Architect as Creative Genius: CanonizationThe Architect as Sculptor: Issey Miyake flagship storeThe Architect as Icon-Builder: IAC BuildingThe Architect as Urban Planner: Atlantic YardsStarchitecture in the 21st Century: Form Follows Finance A great blog entry @ Critical Cities by D.J. Huppatz View full entry
Joaquin Torres, head architect of A-cero, an architecture, interior and urban design practice based in Spain, presents a book showcasing the best works made by the firm in its first ten years... The material featured in this publication includes early projects such as the geometrically pure... View full entry
UK - In every one of the 66 statements of the questionnaire, small companies (of fewer than 250 employees) score better than their larger counterparts. 3 architectural practices made it to the list. Find out why their offer to staff is hard to resist: Assael Architecture (22), HLM Architects (62)... View full entry
I know you get a lot of unsolicited slingshots and all, but here, I like to say happy birthday to you from the architectural community, who love to diss you, but deep down influenced by your work, whether or not they admit to it. EB View full entry
Here are the Architectural League of NY's Emerging Voices 08: Work.ac | el dorado, inc | Onion Flats | Stoss Landscape Urbanism| Johnsen Schmaling Architects| Moorhead & Moorhead | Belzberg Architects | MOS || (Lectures begin March 5th at the New Museum!) View full entry
"Whether he's designing £100m flats or creating affordable housing for all, Richard Rogers has just one mission: to make everyone's life more enjoyable " - Glancey in The Guardian. View full entry
Scholarship was sacred to Colin St John Wilson, architect of the British Library. As a new exhibition commemorates his life and work, Fiona MacCarthy salutes the grand vision of his most personal project. Guardian View full entry