“This Thursday August 30, 2007 at 7:00pm Artist’s Park, a site-specific installation by Scot Kaplan, is being honored by a ribbon cutting ceremony marking the parks establishment and availability to the public. The event will be held at 534 West 24th street on the park grounds with... View full entry
An Arabic-themed public school will open next week with extra security after months of protest by some who say it will be a training ground for radical Islam. AP/Yahoo View full entry
"Like others, Karl Rove is called an 'architect' in his field. Building designers wish they had as much influence." a short read on the "architect label."la times View full entry
“In recent decades, the elites have embraced the European Union and have sought to cobble together a ‘European identity’ that might inject some meaning into public life. However, the elitist and managerial project that is the EU has, not surprisingly, failed to inspire the... View full entry
Burning Man was set on fire earlier than scheduled. The arsonist, an actor and writer who is active in the San Francisco arts scene and recently portrayed Hunter S. Thompson in a play, is charged for the sabotage. Teams of volunteers are racing against the clock to build another man to burn as... View full entry
August 21, 2007: Archinect member Huanmic remixes lletdownl's official "guess the lyrics" game. Name that Architect and Building!!! August 21, 2007: Chief Editor John Jourden asks members to help create a list of the top ten emergent US firms. August 22, 2007: Inspired by Marlin and Ludwig's... View full entry
A growing group of critics says a black artist — or at least an American — should have been chosen to create the King memorial in the nation's capital, not Chinese. usatoday View full entry
Transformations are a large part of what Frogtown is about. For this year's Artwalk, for instance, Gabriel Renz, an artisan who works in steel, is creating a motorized Thai riverboat on wheels so that he can ferry Artwalk visitors up and down Blake Avenue... In the same adaptive vein, the town's... View full entry
Stella’s interest in architecture is unabashedly and unapologetically about form not function, about a structure’s “pictorial” quality. Build a beautiful building, in other words, and a practical purpose can be found for it—and clients will come. ArchRecord | Don't... View full entry
"The works assembled for this presentation — the first U.S. survey of this Icelandic artist's oeuvre — date from 1993 to the present and reflect all facets of his creative practice. Eliasson describes his artworks as "devices for the experience of reality." As visitors interact with... View full entry
A Chinese couple tried to name their baby '@', saying the character echoes their love for the child. abc View full entry
The Muslim Jesus, a TV documentary, explores how Christian and Muslim faiths both acknowledge Jesus.news central View full entry
The LA Weekly wanders the construction site of Renzo Piano's new Broad Museum with Richard Serra to discuss the installation of his new work, Band: “Band has a contradiction when you walk into it, in that the inside and the outside seem to be continuous, so you get very confused — if... View full entry
Caltech graduate student Virgil Griffith just launched an unofficial Wikipedia search tool that threatens to lay bare the ego-editing and anonymous flacking on the site. Enter the name of a corporation, organization or government entity and you get a list of IP addresses assigned to it. Then with... View full entry
Gilberto Kassab, the mayor of São Paulo, passed a law last year banning all advertising from the Brazilian city. Story | Excellent flickr site of city with empty billboards View full entry