The much awaited Tashiro Kaplan Building in Seattle officially opens on Thursday, marking a significant step towards establishing a balanced downtown community in Seattle: “By now it's an old story: Artists who move into cheap neighborhoods fix them up only to be kicked out when property... View full entry
Safdie defends his plan for Jerusalem redevelopment claiming that by 2020, the city will lose approximately 120,000 Jews, and the purpose of his plan is to preserve their 70 percent majority. Related articles previously on archinect. View full entry
Prospectus focuses on the urban vision of the "indoor" or "underground" city of Montreal. It proposes to address this "indoor city" as a "hyperbuilding." Prospectus is an invitation to explore this gigantic "building-city" in search of spaces, uses and situtations that typify the complexity and... View full entry
A new park at the foot of LA City Hall or a replacement to LAPD's Parker Center headquarters? www.lacivicpark.org View full entry
The first full-scale test of the facility, is timed to mark the tenth anniversary of the Kobe earthquake on January 17 next year. One month ago we read about the 4-metre-wide square platform used to simulate earthquakes in a giant lab in Mexico. The Japanese table can hold a seven-storey... View full entry
Big developments on Barcelona's waterfront: A city famous for daring design is reinventing itself with multibillion-dollar projects. The article surveys a series of new development projects from the Besòs district to Plaza de las Glories and a Gehry in between. (link) View full entry
Israel Plans to (Re)zone Settlements to Build 533 New Units thus expanding a wealthy suburb of Jerusalem further into the West Bank. (NYT) View full entry
the new San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge | from Wired: part 1 | part 2 View full entry
A group of 8 professors at the University of Jerusalem have mounted a cogent criticism of Moshe Safdie's plan for Jerusalem, claiming, while it is architectural and physical in nature, it has no overall vision of Jerusalem's future. The plan does not address the main fundamental problems, will... View full entry
This essay, by Chris Spannos describes a broad vision of how cities, architecture, spatial design and our built environment evolve within a participatory economy; an alternative to cities dominated by private property, capital, and markets or cities based on command economies with central... View full entry
The South Korean government has a moving date. On August 11th, President Roh Moo-hyun announced a plan to build a new capital city from scratch on a 7,100-hectare greenfield site in the middle of the country. A competition will be held for the design of the still to be named capital. Construction... View full entry
Grants for destruction: where do I apply? (iht) View full entry
As part of the Mayor of London 100 Public Spaces programme, Lambeth will get a new town square. View full entry
Mall of America celebrates 12 years and threatens to go bigger - uh, make that 9,000,000 sf. | guardian | triple5 | *gulp* | View full entry
Want to meet and communicate with your neighbors? Forget that age-old tactic of knocking on their door to ask for a cup of sugar. Keith Hampton, professor of technology, urban and community sociology at MIT has developed i-neighbours, a website made to bring the people in your ”˜hood... View full entry