China will drop former leader Mao's face from new 10 yuan notes to mark next month's Olympic Games. One side of the new cyan-coloured note features the National Stadium, or Bird's Nest. reuters View full entry
Open Tables Ecology by Working Architecture Group is the winner of the Workspace Group Urbantine Project in 2008. This application - a study in contemporary interaction theory, or Ubiquitous Computing - impressed judges in its detail, imagination and its engagement with the digital component of... View full entry
Next time you think your building is sculptural or define it as a sculpture, think again. Monumenta 2008:Promanade, a site dedicated to Serra's work in Grand Palais is full of great documantation of sculptor's work, an interview by Yve-Alain Bois, his views on space and body, architecture &... View full entry
Artist Cole Gerst/Option-G is raising funds for AFHs' wildfire rebuild with a limited edition print on tiny showcase. The sale began an hour ago and already 1/2 the prints are gone. ps. Cole also did the AFH iGoogle theme. View full entry
John Robb, aka. Global Guerillas discusses the emergence of a new Bow-Tie (aka Platform) architecture. This new system is pure. The Bow-Tie architecture has the following features:Global Guerillas View full entry
Berlin based design group eBoy turn global city landscapes into exuberant, technicolor pixel architecture mash ups and call it 'Pixorama'. Recent additions: Dublin and Los Angeles. eBoy View full entry
A complete overhaul of the way in which people navigate the internet has been given the go-ahead. The net's regulator, Icann, voted unanimously to relax the strict rules on "top-level" domain names, such as .com or .net. bbc View full entry
Today, 4 monumental, man-made waterfalls open to the public along the East River. They were created by the Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson, in conjunction with the Public Art Fund. WNYC's Pejk Malinovski took a boat ride around the project site with the artist, several weeks before it... View full entry
Tonight the work of Architecture for Humanity design fellow Purnima McCutcheon will be profiled in the award-winning documentary series, Frontline/World on PBS. This story profiles her work in supporting post-tsunami reconstruction in Tamil Nadu, India and the dozen 'off the grid' community... View full entry
Artist Anthony Gormley's proposal will be next on the famous empty plinth in London's most important public square. The Artist is expected to realise his plan to have the fourth plinth occupied by a different person every hour for 24 hours a day over 100 days. That would mean 2,400 individuals on... View full entry
Richard Prince has a thing about fast cars, nurses and other supposed male obsessions. Adrian Searle wonders what lies behind the artist's secondhand jokes and macho excess. As in; Prince chartered his own flight to London, stacked with work for the Serpentine, and installed the show himself, in... View full entry
About the Contemporary Jewish Museum just opened in San Francisco and designed by Daniel Libeskind; "Where traditional modern buildings were usually simple Platonic shapes, these buildings seem to be falling apart, or bursting outward. Once avant garde, this trend, sometimes labeled... View full entry
what advice would you give to the young? I hate to say this absolute bullshit design professor stuff, but really - follow your bliss! I mean try and do something that you don't mind doing. if you get into some line of work that's like a pain in the ass but it pays a lot, it's not really going to... View full entry
UB Art Prof and Critical Art Ensemble member Steve Kurtz Free. The long and twisted saga has been present in the news here with maybe ten or eleven items. Hit search for more. Interview at Democracy Now View full entry
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