Hawthorne offers more on the China building frenzy as it slowly regains its footing again. | nytimes + slideshow | prvsly... related: Beijing's Truly Bad Buildings View full entry
The world's biggest traffic noise map has hust been published by the UK Government. (The Independent) View full entry
NPR's Morning Edition reports on the competition between star outsider Frank Gehry and hometown sports architecture firms for the design of the proposed new arena in downtown Kansas City. (previously...) View full entry
NYTimes examines, in a series of artciles titled The Great Divide, the widening gap between the rural poor and urban rich that has made China, the world's fastest-growing economy, also one of its most unequal societies. Start with Rivers Run Black, and Chinese Die of Cancer-the vast countryside... View full entry
M.P. Ranjan , head of the Center for Bamboo Initiatives at the National Institute of Design (NID), says there have been more than 1,500 documented uses for bamboo, and by one estimate the annual economic value of total bamboo consumption is $10 billion. With the brief lifecycle of bamboo, a... View full entry
Reaction to the selected World Trade Center schemes has been mixed among architects, over 30 of whom were informally surveyed by Architectural Record. View full entry
Following the example of Singapore before it, Dubai with few natural resources has created an island of international business, shopping and tourism, out of the turmoil of the Middle East. // links inside> Related Links: Burj al-Arab HotelThe PalmThe World in the newsThe World Website View full entry
Nicolai Ouroussoff goes multimedia with a NYTimes feature on the slew of new towers in New York. NYTimes View full entry
Photos of the Favela taken by the children who live there. View full entry
The outcomes of trying to talk and walk at the same time, including what planners identify as the privatization of public space through telecomm gadgets. Read View full entry
PHILADELPHIA - For about $10 million, city officials believe they can turn all 135 square miles of Philadelphia into the world's largest wireless Internet hot spot. AP View full entry
Carol Lloyd writes about Mitchell Schwarzer's diagnosis of San Francisco as a climate of obsessive architectural preservationsists and planning reactionaries. Can the city de-institutionalize itself from its fears of new development in a way that can still control developers but also bring new... View full entry
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
