The BBC has unveiled plans for a sculpture inspired by Winston Churchill to mark the statesman's victory in the Great Briton's series. (also) View full entry
"I wouldn't say I crack a whip, but this is the division of duties we decided on. I told him, 'I can promise you only one thing: you will never have to think about money.' " (NYTimes) View full entry
NYC: with their view threatened in perpetuity by a new "high-rise" development across the way, the Helmsleys sue for $150 million and threaten to vacate their Woodlawn Cemetery property to take up residence in Washington Irving's tony, bucolic 'hood. (from NYTimes) View full entry
Artist not interested in plea over bio-materials (frm NewsDay) View full entry
Doug Aitken and Sigur Ros collaborate on Paris exhibition. imgs |1|2|3|4| french news View full entry
In this overwhelming time of bad street art (especially GIANT/OBEY ) London's Banksy never ceases to amaze me View full entry
Popular Science takes a look at the prototype vehicle for Bikes Against Bush, Joshua Kinberg's master's thesis project to transform ordinary bicycles into "Internet-enabled, tactical media 'artillery' for non-violent, creative resistance" (read: auto-blogging, SMS-driven sidewalk-chalkers)... View full entry
Its official Pleather gets its propers in the latest version of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate® Dictionary 2004 along with seventeen other words which are in common usage. View full entry
An American-owned mining company won approval from the German government to demolish this medieval village of 150 to get at the rich seam of coal that lies beneath it. (frm NYT) View full entry
it's Ouroussoff, from Architecture Magazine View full entry
"Labor and Materials" is Iraq's answer to "Extreme Home Makeover" and the country's first reality TV show. In 15-minute episodes, broken windows are made whole again. Blasted walls slowly rise again. Fancy furniture and luxurious carpets appear without warning in the living rooms of poor... View full entry
Today the metropolis...still wrestles with how to preserve its historic character and close-knit neighborhoods while striving to be a world-class city. As the Democratic National Convention thrusts Boston into the spotlight, the near-completion of the Big Dig stands as a symbol of the city's... View full entry
The Detroit News reports on Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm's "Cool Cities" Initiative and similar efforts in other cities nationwide. Previously on Archinect:Newsflash: Detroit is "cool"discussion View full entry
Body Worlds , a new exhibit at the California Science Center in Los Angeles. The exhibit features human bodies preserved through a new process called "plastination," where technicians remove the water from organs or whole bodies and replace it with silicon. (frm Day2Day) View full entry
"There's been an attempt to produce an artificial memory that was not burdened by the war years ... a history-free space," says Ralph Bodenstein, a research fellow at the German Orient Institute in Beirut, talking about the reconstruction of the city . View full entry