Cult 60's television show, The Prisoner, is being remade by ITV in the UK, to be broadcast in 2009. The 1960 version, starring Patrick McGoohan as the hero who finds himself trapped in a mysterious place called the Village, was shot in the Welsh village of Portmeirion, designed by Clough... View full entry
An installation of models, photographs, videos, and drawings, Red Lines immerses visitors in a landscape of pulsing capital and liquidated buildings, exploring the relation between finance and architecture. More View full entry
AmEx is hosting their 2nd Members Project, where projects compete against each other for funding. Architecture for Humanity and Lulan Artisans are partnering to build and scale weaving cooperatives for women throughout South East Asia. These centers will be off-the-grid anchors in communities... View full entry
More and more Americans are flocking to resort-like cities, places like Flagstaff, Ariz., a quaint college town near the Grand Canyon. For some, it's a move to paradise. But it can come with a steep price. Read + Listen on NPR | see also 'Poverty With A View' View full entry
Our man in Tokyo - painter, sculptor, and art-world iconoclast Takashi Murakami - endorses maximalism. Esquire | Slideshow View full entry
Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea , a large-scale work by an artist known as Swoon, is part floating artwork, part performance, part mobile utopia and seemingly part summer camp for grown-up artsy kids. The mobile work will be docked at Deitch Studios in Long Island City beginning September... View full entry
The [New York] City Council’s Housing and Buildings Committee unanimously passed legislation earlier today that will remove the requirement that the Commissioner of the DOB be a licensed architect or engineer. AN View full entry
The catch... it's located in a cemetery. It's yours for a cool £5.95 million. TimesOnline View full entry
Birmingham (UK) City Council has admitted sending out leaflets which showed its US namesake's skyline instead. About 720,000 pamphlets praising Brummies for their recycling were sent around the city at a cost of £15,000. But instead of showing landmarks such as the Rotunda and the new... View full entry
Abby Aguirre spends a day walking the landscape of the West Bank, with Raja Shehadeh, author of the recently published book Palestinian Walks: Forays Into a Vanishing Landscape. Shehadeh sketches a landscape that is rapidly disappearing-territory recognized internationally as part of a future... View full entry
"We should remember that the power of photographs comes not only from their ability to copy reality, but also to alter reality. Photographs can be used — to borrow Heartfield’s phrase — as weapons. They can be used to warn us about the dangers of impending war. They can also be... View full entry
Worldchanging Seattle discusses the endangered state of the American mall. View full entry
Whoosh! You can practically hear the sound of satin flung over papal shoulders and the rustle and creak of silk against silk brocade in “Bernini and the Birth of Baroque Portrait Sculpture,” currently on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. NYT | Slideshow | relatedAn... View full entry
Murals have begun to appear on the security wall in the Shia district of Sadr City, Baghdad, as part of a multi-national $100,000 project to improve the area. Guardian View full entry
Brazilian artist/designer Athos Bulcao passed away at the age of 90 this past Thursday at the Sarah Kubitschek Hospital in Brasilia, Brazil. Bulcão was best know for the architecturally-integrated interventions he produced in federal buildings of Brasilia, which were planned by Lucio... View full entry