Ricardo Legorreta "has designed a public space of plazas, arcades and passages at the base of two adjoining office towers, part of a broad effort to revitalize [Mexico City's] historic center." NYT. View full entry

designboom serves up an interview and reports from the basilica palladiana, vicenza, exhibition of their work. via View full entry

Tronicstudio has updated their site with 2oo5 work. Check it out! View full entry

Robert Venturi comes to modernist shrine Crown Hall to out Mies van der Rohe as a closet symbolist and attempt to define the architecture of our time. Read View full entry

Zaha Hadid "would like to get her hands on Miami, a place she sees as a young urban city hungry for a public architectural statement." Miami Herald. View full entry

Newsweek lobs a few questions at Frank Gehry and calls it a "special." via NA and Defamer View full entry

"Where is it written that buildings have to be boxes?" asks Czech-born architect Jan Kaplicky, founder and partner of the London-based practice Future Systems. "People aren't boxes." Is Europe finally starting to listen to him? Busines Week takes note. | related: The Pyongyang Candidate View full entry

John Stewart Detlie , the Hollywood set designer, artist and architect who led the effort to camouflage the Boeing airplane factory during World War II, died from lung cancer last Wednesday. After leaving MGM, he went on to manage a project for the Army Corps of Engineers. To confuse enemy... View full entry

A fair (and edgy) write-up of Santiago "Bird Man" Calatrava's trajectory to date by the succinct Martin Filler in the NY Review of Books. | nyrba sampling:Some of Calatrava's coprofessionals have cast a skeptical eye on what they see as his tendency to overelaborate his designs and obfuscate the... View full entry

Architectural Record's Design Vanguard of emergent firms is online featuring Luce et Studio, Studio Himma, Evan Douglis Studio, Urbanus, King Roselli Architetti, Rojkind Arquitectos, Chris Lee and Kapil Gupta, ITERAE Architecture, Taira Nishizawa Architects, and Mitnick Roddier Hicks. View full entry

From the LA Times:Architect Jolts Trust in Japan Quake Safety TOKYO ”” Until the scandal broke, Hidetsugu Aneha was just an anonymous architect, running a small, Tokyo-area firm that carried out the mundane but crucial calculations to determine how much reinforced steel should be used... View full entry

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The man of steel, that's who. Burj Dubai? Trump Tower? Sound familiar? read View full entry

The recent scandal involving Japanese architect Hidetsugu Aneha has sent shockwaves through the country's design and engineering communities. Aneha has been accused of falsifying structural data order to expedite the completion of many recent projects. Today the story took a more grisly turn when... View full entry

The Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan offers three fellowships in the areas of architectural research and design instruction. The Michigan Fellowships are one of the longest running fellowship programs in architecture and former fellows include Adam... View full entry