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Is Jacques Herzog a pouty little bitch?I've seen a couple interviews where Jacques Herzog sports a major 'tude lately, but this one takes the cake. I suppose by the time you become a super humongoid starchitect you've earned the right to be a prick? Seems pretty common, actually.
Student Works : Elizabeth Moggio & Megan ConnerAn extensive feature on on two University of Michigan architecture students.
Buildings with BlingArchitect Peter Marino designs pimped out spaces for brand name retailers. (slideshow)
Yesterday's vision of the urban futureA (less than stellar) review of the Barbican exhibition, 'Future City'.
Small is fashionable?According to the WSJ, "Microhouses are luring buyers looking for vacation getaways, art studios or even full-time residences." Let's hope so...
Ikea accused of building blots on the landscapeChain stores are "spending a fortune" marketing cheap furnishings while "appearing to give no thought" to what the shops look like from outside.
Pacis ModernaRichard Meier's new Ara Pacis museum is the first building to be constructed in Rome's historical center since the Fascist era.
D.C. disses MiesOfficials want to sell the Martin Luther King Memorial Library - the only building in Washington D.C. designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
Roar_one - a paradigm shift in urban architectureLang Wilson Practice in Architecture Culture have designed a development of stacked homes in Vancouver that seeks to change urban living. "Our approach is to build the maximum volume possible, then use filters and perforation to mediate and alleviate the mass. The challenge is how to manage density in such a way that it is efficient and maximizes livability."
First place - go gravestmor!Hannah Tribe and Gravestmor editor Marcus Trimble have won the North Sydney Transport Interchange competition. Check it out.
Case Study in Duplicate"Rodney Walker's landmark House 16 helped to define modern living but then was demolished. Now his sons have brought it back -- twice." (Registration might be req'd)
FLLWright's Guggenheim Museum under wrapsWright's famous New York City building has been encapsulated in scaffolding as extensive exterior restoration work continues. It will be unwrapped in 2007.
Belmont/Thurman LoftsTwo mixed-use urban developments projects in Portland, Oregon designed by Holst Architecture. Nice.
Designing the Future of New OrleansWinners of the "High Density on the High Ground" and "New Orleans Prototype House" ideas competitions sponsored by Architectural Record and Tulane University.
'It's a monster. But if it stops changing, it will die'As the London Architecture Biennale kicks off, its director Peter Ackroyd tells Jonathan Glancey how money has transformed the city - and will make it almost unrecognisable by 2010
The Wright IntentionA little Archicad promo details Thomas A. Heinz's efforts to realize an unbuilt Frank Lloyd Wright design from 1950.
Sunset's 2006 Idea HouseHenry Siegel of Siegel and Strain Architects, designed this year's Sunset Magazine Celebration Idea House showcasing a green design constructed of SIPs panels.
More-numents for LondonImagining how London's historic monuments could evolve to compete with more recent London icons.
Antoine Predock honored by AIANew Mexico-based architect Antoine Predock has been honored with the 2006 AIA Gold Award. "I like to think about machines and technology in relation to landscape and architecture."
AIA Announces "Show You’re Green" AwardsEight projects were chosen as excellent examples of outstanding housing that is aesthetically appealing while meeting "green" sustainable design guidelines.
From Understated to Big StatementMore on Herzog and de Meuron and their "global presence" along with the obvious World Cup tie in - the Allianz Arena in Munich. Don't miss the Slide Show.
The revolution will be modularArchitect Sue Harper and her environmental engineer husband, Andy Irvine, have developed a modular building system of standard panel sizes to allow a quick fit for house construction.
Student project: ship.bldgAn exploration of "the ship as a 'dry-docked' architecture" by Luke Pearson.
Irish firms keen to establish architectural offices overseasBusiness is booming for Irish Architects at home and abroad. Firms opening int'l offices include: Murray O'Laoire, HKR, Heneghan Peng Architects and Grafton Architects
Behind the red velvet curtain lies a culture destroyedIn China "it's as though the entire enlightenment project, from Napoleon through postmodern classical-revival, is being rerun in simultaneous trash-cast, not a single lesson learned."
They came from outer space"Sixties architects wanted us to live like aliens." A write up on the upcoming (and previously posted) Barbican exhibition Future City: Experiment and Utopia in Architecture 1956-2006.
Listen to Architects......what a concept. But this is actually a link to a fascinating collection of audio clips of architects such as Walter Gropius, Denys Lasdun, Le Corbusier, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Richard Rogers, Albert Speer and James Stirling.
Pallet-House: Modular Refugee HousingNew York based designers Azin Valy and Suzan Wines (I-Beam Design) propose the Pallet-House which uses wooden shipping pallet as a modular construction material.