At least 54 people have died in China because of flooding and landslides triggered by Typhoon Talim. BBC View full entry
James W. Bailey explains very well what's what on the site of the Ohr-O'Keefe Museum of Art and then presents a NOAA Satellite Photo after Katrina showing a huge casino barge that landed on the plot. Totalled. I'm fairly certain that Anderson Cooper was broadcasting on CNN from just in front of... View full entry
Is it possible to "slow down a hurricane?" asks MIT's Moshe Alamaro. His answer, given to *The Economist* in June 2005: you build "a chain of offshore barges adorned with upward-facing jet engines." These would create preemptive micro-hurricanes, dispelling future storms. A competing idea?... View full entry
Gehry, who is in Japan, said that while he is currently more concerned for the people than the buildings, he "would be in the fight to rebuild the city with you." read Ohr-O'Keefe Museum structures on Biloxi's East Beach Boulevard sustained major damage, but hopefully could be salvaged. The... View full entry
Tulane University cannot hold a fall semester on its campus. While this news is extremely disappointing to all of us, our students can continue their academic careers uninterrupted thanks to an avalanche of support from our colleagues in higher education. Nine of the leading higher education... View full entry
Reed Kroloff, Dean of Tulane's Architecture Department, would like to get word to his students about what they should do as a result of conditions in New Orleans. Students, faculty, and parents can reach him at a temporary email address: [email protected] View full entry
"Kanye West departed from the scripted comments that were prepared for him, and his opinions in no way represent the views of the networks." But apparently Kanye West is not the only one going unscripted. View full entry
Wired : Visitors swoop down over a map of the Gulf Coast that's awash in hundreds of red teardrops, each denoting information about specific geographical points in the area. All of the information on the map has been provided by ordinary citizens, most of whom presumably have come to the site in... View full entry
PC users: download google earth, then follow these links: Flood Overlays from the keyhole community. More Overlays from google earth hacks. Flood map and smaller overlays. Hurricane Imagery from Google. View full entry
Mourning for a Flooded Crescent City, by Andrei Codrescu, long time NPR poet and Baton Rouge, New Orleans resident. listen View full entry
via ANN: Future Face of New Orleans Has an Uncertain Look for Now, with comments by Daniel Libeskind, Jerold Kayden and Witold Rybczynski. | Can New Orleans recover its cultural richness? also by Rybczynski | First Reports from Cultural Institutions, mentions that The Wall Street Journal... View full entry
This forum thread has several options including info from Penn State, Syracuse, Judson, Columbia, and probably more to come. View full entry
The Architectural Record reports on the AIAs' response to Katrina. View full entry
New Orleans, Louisiana: Subaqueous | any extra room on the floor or couch? | Help for hurricane displaced architects | Is New Orleans a Victim of the Iraq War? | or..."and I don't want to sound harsh, but I have to ask: why are the Feds responsible for protecting an untenable city? Why isn't that... View full entry
Sidney Blumenthal, here, has a great article on Katrina, placing the storm's after-effects in the context of the Army Corps of Engineers' strange brand of city planning; reduced federal funds for the protection of urban infrastructure; over-developed coastal landscapes; climate change; and even... View full entry