So what is Zaha Hadid really like? Her personality borders on both myth and speculation. Hadid is often respected, at times feared, but always discussed””as much for her penchant for Miyake as for her darkly aggressive paintings and swooping buildings. CITY l related? l site beyond... View full entry

How to Take A Caffeine Nap: The Caffeine Nap is simple. You drink a cup of coffee and immediately take a 15 minute nap. Researchers found coffee helps clear your system of adenosine, a chemical which makes you sleepy. So in testing, the combination of a cup of coffee with an immediate nap chaser... View full entry

edouard françois goes through the designboom questionnaire. Haute Qualité Environmentale. View full entry

The media launch for Frank Gehry's new show is going to be open to bloggers. Also, check out the AGO blog. View full entry

Lord Foster spoke to the BBC News website as he recorded an exclusive audio slideshow explaining his original designs for the 90,000-seater stadium - which is due to be English football's new home, as well as London's premier concert venue. BBC (Audio) View full entry

Winy Maas of MVRDV proclaims a position for the Marcus Prize as a valve for experimentation in the urban situtation during a speech in Milwaukee. Mass also spoke on the position of university, stating it should be placed in the realm of ideas and not commerce. JSOnline View full entry

Mason's horse for the pritzker prize, Toyo Ito, returns to the real world in the February edition of ICON. We liked him better when he was into robots! View full entry

Steven Holl was feature in the New York Times style section this past Sunday. View full entry

Oscar Niemeyer reinforces his position on reinforced concrete and other architectural issue. reuters View full entry

Always look - and always learn. That's the philosophy that has turned David Adjaye into one of Britain's hottest architects - and one whose work is marked by a great generosity of spirit. As an exhibition of his work opens, he talks to Benjamin Secher. Read it in the Telegraph. View full entry

As a child, Andrea Zittel cut out the crotch of her tights so she could wear them as a top, making a perfect reciprocity with those she wore on her legs. Given this precocity of invention, it seems only natural that she would grow up to be a painter, sculptor, architect, inventor, carpenter... View full entry

AIASF/SFMOMA Public Lecture by Brigitte Shim (Shim-Sutcliffe Architects) on AR. Go Listen View full entry

"It's a tricky step for any architect to move from the small to the large scale. Tony Fretton is making the leap with three high-end residential schemes in Amsterdam. Ellis Woodman discovers whether he has managed the transition." Building Design. View full entry

"After 40 years of being stored in garden sheds, under beds and in cupboards, the archive of the 1960s collective Archigram is finally being made available to the public. The archive of approximately 4,000 drawings, models and audio tapes produced during the group's creative peak will be... View full entry

The Courier-Journal's Steve Wiser reviews Jayne Merkel's recently Phaidon-published biography on Eero Saarinen. Read View full entry