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Brewery Art Walk, Los AngelesThis weekend the (apparently) world's largest art colony invites you to have a look around and maybe purchase an artifact or two.
Developers and Dreamers Battle Over Berlin Identity"A penniless crusader against the injustices of urban development" or a "bonsai demagogue, an old communist dreamer and a misguided Robin Hood." Architect Carsten Joost is leading the fight against developers in the hippest (and poor...) European capital, and Goliath Moneypants is actually having a hard time with David the Architect.
Britain pulls ahead in wind power raceEnergy Minister Mike O'Brien said the "Lincs" wind farm would include up to 70 wind turbines. Mr O'Brien said the the UK would become the world's largest producer of offshore wind power. Now THAT'S how it's done, presidential candidates!
Great Balls'o Wind!Nope, we are not commenting on the presidential debates... this is a spherical Swedish small-scale wind turbine that promises to work in complete silence. Mb this is a comment on the election afterall.
"New wave hero Portuguese architect wins UK's most prestigious prize"Álvaro Siza Vieira, the Portuguese Pritzker Prize winning architect, is this year's recipient of the Royal Gold Medal. Parabéns! - Thanks, Drew.
The Other Venice Film FestivalFor those of us who never make it over to the Old World for the original, here's a little-known alternative with a similar name... Thanks, Rene!
Renzo's CA Academy of Sciences"If you want reaffirmation that human history is an upward spiral rather than a descent into darkness, head to the new California Academy of Sciences, in Golden Gate Park, which opens on Saturday."
Shipping containers could be 'dream' homes for thousandsNot quite modern design, but give them time.
Alt Car Expo - Santa MonicaThe alternative energy and transportation expo at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Sept. 26th & 27th, 10AM to 5PM, Freeeee in so many ways...
Citambulos"BOOK, OBJECT, MANIFESTO, INVENTORY, MICROCOSMOS: as unclassifiable and heterogeneous as the city it describes, CITÁMBULOS. The Incidence of the Remarkable is, above all, a guidebook for getting lost in Mexico City."
Ducky Ahoy!Party-boy-celeb-architect Clive Wilkinson gets a 3-page spread in the New York Times and explains Club Clive: "I wanted to make the house so beautiful ‘that girls would forget my innumerable failings." Ahm... Party on, Duckies!
"Fabled Northwest Passage open for business in the Arctic"Out of the way, polar bears, here comes big business...
VergangenheitsbewaeltigungDunno what it means? "Architecture School" begins on Sundance Channel tonight. 'Nuff said!
The sun always shines in California...It seems like someone, anyone should have figured this one out in the sunshine state already... And since the solar farms are huge, economies of scale kick in and make it that much more affordable! Now who would have EVER...
I'd be a house guest..."Coldwater Canyon guesthouse a green-hued retreat in a box" designed by architect Aleks Istanbullu.
A big new park in a city that needs more"Downtown Los Angeles has its first new park since 1895. It’s called Vista Hermosa, with a beautiful view of the steel-and-glass skyline. It’s ten and a half acres of open space and green technology but, among major American cities, LA remains last in accessible parkland."
Green + Wired = A 'smart' homePackaged for mass consumption - video of Michelle Kaufman designed home on "display" at the Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago.
Succulent, flowery, fruity, awesomeAll descriptive words of our friend Stephen Gabor, designer extraordinaire and SCI-Arc alumnus. [SLIDE SHOW]
Brad Pitt, blah blah blah"Brad Pitt will be part of a team of consultants appointed to design a new five-star hotel and leisure development in Dubai, developer Zabeel Properties said on Monday."
Greener is the new BlacktopA $5 million research program which hopes to make blacktop more ecologically sustainable.
Guerrilla gardener movement takes root in L.A. area"Stealth growers seed or plant on land that doesn't belong to them. The result? Plants that beautify or yield crops in otherwise neglected or vacant spaces."
Free software delivers a remodeled L.A. duplexHomeowner hires UCLA architecture student to tutor her in Google Sketch-Up, then designs an impressive remodel.
Smart Fortwo gets five star IIHS crash ratings"Forget the death-trap jokes: the pint-sized Smart fortwo, has earned a full five-star crash rating from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) for frontal and side impacts."
Flat-Folding BBQ GrillPretty nifty little portable BBQ... better wait for it too cool properly before toting it about there, Einstein. And I've gotta wonder about the mess... ah, details.
Robert Rauschenberg dies at 82The pop art pioneer, whose work spanned the worlds of painting, sculpture and dance, has passed away in Florida at age 82.
Growing Up Green"Want to wreck the environment? Have a baby. Each bundle of joy gobbles up more of the planet's food, clogs garbage dumps with diapers, churns through plastic toys and winds up a gas-guzzling, resource-consuming grown-up like the rest of us."