Architecture

The Bowery is Booming (For Better or Worse)

Karrie Jacobs walks the Bowery, and finds it transformed by new development. Falling off the preservationist's radar, the Bowery has been left open for architectural experimentation.
20 November 2009 - 6:00am
Metropolis Magazine

Finland's First Skyscrapers

An Italian firm plans to build the first skyscrapers in a central district in Helsinki, intended to house both homes and offices.
19 November 2009 - 1:00pm
Helsingin Sanomat

Autistic Kids Love SketchUp

SketchUp isn't just for urban designers- it turns out that it makes perfect sense to autistic children, giving them a tool that taps their skill at visual communication.
19 November 2009 - 8:00am
Newsweek

Mapping: Not Just For Geographers Anymore

Citizen volunteers are democratizing the field of online mapping, spreading out to document neighborhoods and streets worldwide.
17 November 2009 - 12:00pm
New York Times

Is Starchitecture Over?

The Nottingham Contemporary, a stark new museum building in London, exhibits none of the architectural excess of the past several years in contemporary architecture, says critic Tom Dyckhoff.
17 November 2009 - 9:00am
The Times Online

Man-Made Mountain Proposed in Berlin

An architect in Berlin has proposed replacing the city's now-unused Tempelhof airport with a giant man-made mountain, dubbed The Berg.
13 November 2009 - 8:00am
The Architect's Journal

Making Gritty Pretty

Cities around the world are finding that turning industrial ruins into green public space is far more cost effective and fun than tearing them down.
11 November 2009 - 6:00am
The Walrus

Prince Charles, Vancouverism, and the search for Sustainable Urbanism

Tue, 11/10/2009 - 16:01

This past Saturday, I had the honour of joining a group of invited urbanists and sustainability experts, in a special dialogue put on by The Prince's Foundation for the Built Environment, and Vancouver's Simon Fraser University. Among other things, the event was to launch a new partnership between these two innovative organizations around research and curriculum for sustainable urbanism.

The Tension Between Form and Function

Prizewinning architect Thom Mayne says that tension inspires him, while admitting that he'd love to design more demanding, artistic buildings.
10 November 2009 - 7:00am
The Cornell Daily Sun

'No Credits, Just Prerequisites'

The Living Building Challenge is a new environmental rating system that focuses on required environmental design elements, diverging dramatically from the credit-based approach of the built environment's dominant rating system, LEED.
6 November 2009 - 11:00am
Metropolis Magazine

Really Quiet Neighbors

Architect Bill Bickford would like to turn Chicago's historic Three Arts Club into a columbarium, or building to house cremated remains. The former dormitory for women artists is revered by preservationists, but hasn't been in use since 2003.
3 November 2009 - 1:00pm
Chicago Business

Starchitecture and Sustainability: Hope, Creativity, and Futility Collide in Contemporary Architecture

Can today's contemporary architects, schooled in modernism and invention, in fact incorporate the sort of green building materials and techniques that make a real difference? And does design really matter? Josh Stephens takes a look.
1 November 2009 - 10:41pm

How Architects Learn: The Debate

Geoff Manaugh at BLDBLG talks about the role of the architecture student. Should they be allowed create experimental designs, even when the field of practice is so narrow it is unlikely they'll ever be able to design like that again?
1 November 2009 - 1:00pm
BLDBLOG

Gropius Buildings Slated for Demolition

The Friend Convalescent Hospital was the first of Walter Gropius' modernist buildings to be destroyed at Chicago's Michael Reese hospital. Bulldozing began on Wednesday with more still to go.
31 October 2009 - 7:00am
The Chicago Tribune

Alex MacLean: Surveying a Changed Landscape

Photographer Alex MacLean talks about his book OVER: The American Landscape at the Tipping Point.
29 October 2009 - 12:00pm
Northwest Hub

The End of An Era for Arts Centers

The new Dallas Performing Arts Center marks the end of a boom in the development of arts centers and a moment in American architecture, says Nicolai Ouroussoff.
29 October 2009 - 9:00am
The New York Times

Will Robots Build Your Next Project?

A brick wall is being built on a traffic island in New York without human hands. The robot doing the work is a brainchild of two architects as an illustration of 'digital materiality'.
29 October 2009 - 5:00am
Science Daily
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