The SCI-Arc Gallery is pleased to present Whatever Happened to LA? Architectural and Urban Experiments 1970 - 1990, curated by SCI-Arc faculty members Jeffrey Inaba and Peter Zellner. Whatever Happened to LA? will display archival material showcasing the distinctive sensibilities of Southern... View full entry
Lucerne””with its summer festival, Jean Nouvel -designed concert hall, and serious arts scene””has become a quietly exciting destination - MSNBC View full entry
old news item, perhaps not really news, but interesting nonetheless. friendster has been over for at least 2, possibly 3, years as it got kicked to the curb by the more rowdy myspace, which is also over (unless you are either 19 years old or a porn star). now there is asmallworld, the country... View full entry
The Kurtz Case and the Government's "Failure of Imagination" in The Nation | via View full entry
Emperor Krens unloading a $5.5 Guggenheim-supported loft to milk the market or as a sign of a bigger move out? Previously View full entry
Chinese pyrotechnic artist Cai Guo-Qiang. Nuff said. go View full entry
Berlin ”” For Westerners, the center of Berlin suddenly shifted east when the Berlin Wall fell in 1989. The geographic heart of the metropolis still lies in the bohemian neighborhood of Kreuzberg, with its big, loft-like apartments and sometimes raucous night life. But reunification... View full entry
Prophecy Magazine is an internationally distributed bi-annual magazine of architecture, art, fashion, music + culture. Each issue of Prophecy features theoretical architectural ideas/renderings in "the Lab" section. This section usually features 3-5 projects & currently accepting submissions... View full entry
3 blasts on the subway system and 1 in a bus took place once again in the streets of London with one casualty so far.bbc news View full entry
Jewish War Vets Memorial Launched (Libeskind) | Israeli protesters abandon bid to march on Gaza (view this snapshot of bomb shelters in Israel) | As Mexicans and Americans run from hurricane at the border, one man patrols for migrants with a Humanitarian Goal. (More Inside) | India hopes to build... View full entry
Grab a chair. The NYTimes reports that "For male sex symbols who might have once raced cars or farmed cattle, it is now acceptable - cool even - to boast about their obsession with travertine or to pore over fabric swatches." Note to all you straight, male architects: next thing you know, you too... View full entry
Vanity Fair's Vicky Ward presses the question that the former Guggenheim $1.7 billion Chairman Peter Lewis also asked: is Krens's empire on murky financial ground? The latest Krens foray in superstarchitecture was the Guadalajara branch. Read | via View full entry
Chinese novelist Hu Wenliang has written a in new book titled 《。》, which has a reward (US$16,900) for decoding it's cipher.CDaily View full entry
This weekend, July 16th, will mark the 60th year anniversary of the Trinity test, and the birth of the Atomic Age. To protest and commemorate, THE SIMNUKE PROJECT will create a mushroom cloud with some of the largest scale flame producing fuel burners in the world, somewhere in the desert, as... View full entry
This is the same street were the diverted number 30 bus was blown apart. The latest is one more occurrence in the rich history of this street (the guardian) View full entry