Vietnam Veterans Memorial Receives Twenty-five Year Award
"Maya Lin’s Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. will receive the 2007 Twenty-five Year Award, honoring structures of enduring significance."
via AIA — Architecture

You won't recognize L.A.
"Architectural teams envision the city of the future, circa 2106." (E.O. Moss, Office of Mobile Design, George Yu Architects, EDAW / DMJM, a Harvard G.S.D. student team, etc.)
via LA Times — Architecture

Design Vanguard 2006
Architectural Record's choice of 10 emerging architects.
via Architectural Record — Architecture

Interview: Ray Kappe
Kappe doesn't want to talk about the past, he instead guides the interview to current topics such as Los Angeles, prefabrication and environmental concerns.
via Curbed — Architecture

Case Study cha-ching
Case Study homes, built for the middle class (between 1945-1964), now sell for millions.
via LA Times — Architecture

Archigram + HOK = ???
The legendary architect Peter Cook is leading the HOK design team for London's Olympic stadium -- a "really chirpy" building the architects compare to a Lego toy... unlike any existing stadium.
via Times — Architecture

Morphosis goes green in Paris
Thom Mayne's firm has won a competition with his design for a new "eco-tower" at La Défense.
via Treehugger — Architecture

It’s still hip to be square in Ireland.
"The prestigious Opus architecture Awards have recognised once again Ireland’s love of the rectangular."
via Times — Architecture

Swiss Alps Holiday House
Ahhh... a dose of modern Alpine architecture to feed my fetish. Designed by Andreas Fuhrimann Gabrielle Hächler.
via Archidose — Architecture

Quake study tests a home's strength
"The experiment will put a California-built house on top of a simulated 6.7 quake. Engineers want to see how it holds up."
via LA Times — Architecture

A challenge, loud and clear
The lot was between a freeway and an airport -- one of the noisiest sites in San Diego -- but Lloyd Russell built his house anyway.
via LA Times — Architecture

The Firm
What Skidmore, Owings & Merrill did for American architecture. [Slide show]
via Slate — Architecture

Melbourne is Australia's "Petri dish for young architects"
Melbourne's new architectural stars: Andrew Maynard, Peter Ho (PHOOEY Architects), Simon Knott (BKK Architects), and Cassandra Fahey (Cassandra Complex).
via SMH — Architecture

Hats off to a new Pompidou centre
Shigeru Ban's design for the new Centre Pompidou-Metz. [images]
via Telegraph — Architecture

Modernism's mass producers
LA's Modernist tract homes for the masses designed by William Krisel, D. Wallace Benton and Donald G. Park. Tour this Sunday (10/29/06).
via LA Times — Architecture

PoMo is back!
"Postmodernism is back, and this time it's got much more going for it," says Hugh Pearman.
via Gabion — Architecture

What Hadid Has Done for Architecture
An interview with the Zaha.
via Wall Street Journal — Architecture

Another recap from the Venice Biennale
Mason White delivers a "dishevelled heap" of images and text (L+L style... we like it like that) from the Venice Architecture Biennal.
via Archinect — Architecture

Living in the past (with all mod cons)
"We love old houses - we just don't love living in them. Nicola Venning reports on why mock-Victorian has become Britain's favourite style of property."
via Telegraph — Architecture

Surely not the last words on the Tenth Venice Architecture Biennale, 2006
Hugh Pearman on the 2006 Biennale.
via Gabion — Architecture

RIBA Stirling Prize 2006
And the winner is the Barajas Airport in Madrid, designed by Richard Rogers Partnership.
via RIBA — Architecture

Seidler's Sydney
Reflecting on the late Harry Seidler's impacts on Sydney and Australian architecture.
via SMH — Architecture

Redefining the Urban Jungle
"Thanks to French botanist Patrick Blanc, Plant Walls—vertical gardens attached to hotels and museums—are sprouting up in cities worldwide."
via Business Week — Architecture

Thinking outside the box
Sean Godsell's award winning "elevated box" beach house on the Mornington Peninsula, Australia.
via The Age — Architecture

'I don't do nice'
Zaha Hadid. Nuff said.
via Guardian — Architecture

Born again buildings in LA
"A church, power substation, firehouse dormitory, water tower, train car, movie theater and neighborhood market are all enjoying second lives as private homes."
via LA Times — Architecture

U2 tower moves forward
The long awaited - and now taller - U2 tower designed by Burdon Craig Dunne Henry has submitted plans to the Dublin Docklands Development Authority.
via Irish Times — Architecture

2006 RIBA Sustainability Award
Feilden Clegg Bradley is awarded the RIBA Sustainability Award for their design of a model low-energy office building on a brownfield site.
via RIBA — Architecture

N.J. County Rescues Louis Kahn's Bath House
A bit of old news I forgot to Clip about this pivotal 1957 Louis Kahn design.
via Preservation — Architecture

More Hotel Marques de Riscal
A closer look with pictures of Gehry's newest wavy steel thing.
via arcspace — Architecture