"The universe is at least 986 billion years older than physicists thought and is probably much older still, according to a radical new theory." Get your physics, at the Guardian + New Scientist. Possibly related items. View full entry
Part homage to the urban renewal of Leeds, part obituary for Jane Jacobs, it's an article by Simon Jenkins, and it's in The Guardian. View full entry
If you happen to be in or around New Orleans for Jazzfest the Calhoun-McCormick Photo Art Studio project ribbon cutting ceremony takes place at 5500 Charter St. in Holy Cross on May 4th (today) @ 7:00 PM. It will be followed by a block party that features photos from Keith Calhoun and Chandra... View full entry
The criminal, the mentally ill, the spiritual, the eccentric, the alienated and the untutored ... a show of 'outsider art' leaves Adrian Searle disturbed Guardian View full entry
If you can withstand the guy who is narrating this film then there is a pretty good one hour doc. on Islamic Architecture. Also MIT are uploading video intros - here are Larry Sass, Jam Wampler and Nasser Rabbat talking about their studios. View full entry
Google Video, Youtube and other online video resources are not the sorts of place you'd expect to find the UN but over the last year they have been producing web films of projects to give people a firsthand look at what is going on. Winter in Kashmir and rebuilding in the Maldives are among the... View full entry
The lowly flophouse has all but vanished from the urban landscape, swept away by the well-meaning forces of housing reform, city planning and gentrification. But Rosanne Haggerty, whose work housing the homeless won her a MacArthur fellowship in 2001, thinks it is time to give the flophouse a... View full entry
Tomas Saraceno builds environments and actions that defy gravity. Clearly influenced by Archigram and Yona Friedman's proposals of floating communities his pneus are small fragments of an urban ideal detached from the social and political constrains that are rooted to the ground. Pinksummer |... View full entry
Jordi Colomer 's Anarchitekton project posits a protagonist running rampant through cities carrying a model of a building representing that city. Protest? Advert? Campaign? | wm$na caption 1? caption 2?insert your own caption below... View full entry
Los Angeles Times does a 125 th anniversary special Home section today with many links to LA's gems and etc...LATimes HOME View full entry
Time Magazine picked their annual 100 people who shape our world. Architects were few and far between with Renzo Piano and Steve Wynn making the list. The write up on Renzo was done by his Pompidou pal Richard Rogers. recent feature interview by Liz Martin View full entry
A number of UK churches will soon be installing a "Hymnal Plus, a karaoke-like machine with a repertoire of almost 3,000 hymns and psalms," as an automated replacement for aging organists. Guardian. View full entry
Hurricane Katrina's latest fatality should be FEMA, the nation's disaster response agency, a Senate inquiry concluded in calling for a government overhaul to avoid future failures like those the devastating storm exposed. LA Times View full entry
Milton Bradley sells the game Connect 4, but I think they never considered it might be played like this. Watch as New York's resident conversationalist and writer Greg Rossi develops a space of reflection in a simple game of Connect 4. UTube View full entry
Over 100 int'l galleries descended on the annual Art Chicago site in Grant Park only to find that union strikes and financial troubles meant a gallery without walls. Way to break out of the white-box! Trib View full entry