2006 Next Generation Award
Asleep at the wheel... a couple days ago the winner of the 2006 Next Generation Prize was announced -- architect Virginia San Fratello for her Big Idea, The Hydro Wall.
via Metropolis — Architecture

Russian Drama - the Melnikov House
Metropolis rehashes the previously Clipped story about Moscow's 1927 constructivist landmark by Konstantin Melnikov - with photos.
via Metropolis — Architecture

Gehry Gehry everywhere
There are more articles about Gehry's proposal for LA's Grand Avenue than you can shake a stick. NY Times throws a diss, "Los Angeles With a Downtown?" So original.
via NY Times — Architecture

Grand Gehry overload
As Clipped earlier, Frank Gehry's design for Grand Avenue complex in downtown Los Angeles has now been unveiled... behold.
via LA Times — Architecture

Hawthorne's Grand dissapointment
LA Times architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne weighs in on Gehry's design for Grand Avenue - the mall developer is getting in the way of a Grand opportunity.
via LA Times — Architecture

Gehry's Grand Vision
Frank Gehry's design for the much touted Grand Avenue project adjacent to his Disney Concert Hall are to be unveiled today... .drum roll please...
via LA Times — Architecture

Moriyama House by Ryue Nishizawa
A fragmented house in the suburbs of Tokyo where every room of the house is a seperate building.
via gravestmor — Architecture

Woman to build house out of 747
We've featured this before, but now the BBC has more to say about it: the California house designed by David Hertz from pieces of a 747 airplane.
via BBC — Architecture

"Oh-my-god-that's-ugly"
Garrison Frost, a writer based in LA's South Bay, shares his thoughts about local "McMansion" architect, Louie Tomaro. "What's fascinating about a Tomaro home isn't what the architect puts in, but that the architect seems incapable of leaving anything out. Every style and amenity collides in a giant uninspired whole. Spanish meets Modern meets Cape Cod meets Classical meets Craftsman meets Oh-my-god-that's-ugly." (Entry #1414 at The Aesthetic).
via The Aesthetic — Architecture

Additions should stand on their own legs, not mimic the original
"We don't mimic. We build in 2006 not 1920... it should be easy to distinguish the additions, rather than trying to make it look like it was built 200 years ago. That never feels quite right."
via SMH — Architecture

Aircraft fuselage library
A proposal by LOT-EK to recycle over decommissioned 200 Boeing 727 and 737 fuselages into a stacked scheme for a library.
via w-m-m-n-a — Architecture

Mmm mmm minimal
A minimalist modern townhouse in Chicago by Alexander Gorlin Architects.
via Archidose — Architecture

Learning from Fat
"Fat have consistently questioned the high-minded, quasi-scientific position architects have cultivated for themselves, particularly in Britain."
via Guardian — Architecture

Architecture Arguments Don't Help Housing
Blair Kamin writes that "the ideological catfights over housing threaten to marginalize all of architecture." Fun tidbits include Eric Owen Moss ripping into New Urbanist plans for the Gulf Coast rebuilding... rrreowww!
via Business Week — Architecture

Big Dig House - see it
We've talked about the Big Dig House a couple times here at L+L. Inhabitat shows the goods - a profile of the project with images.
via Inhabitat — Architecture

Prefab install - watch it LIVE now
You can watch the actual installation of Living Homes' prefab prototype designed by Ray Kappe (previously featured on L+L) today on a live web cam.
via Archinect — Architecture

Architecture to scare children
Icon talks with Thom with an “h” Mayne.
via Icon — Architecture

A Pritzker surprise in São Paulo
More on the Pritzker including reaction from LA architects Thom Mayne (last year's Pritzker honoree) and Eric Owen Moss.
via LA Times — Architecture

When Design is a Matter of Life or Death
Michael Bierut recounts the story of the structurally flawed Citicorp Center in New York and its engineer William LeMessurier who recognized the flaw a year after the building was completed. WWYD?
via Design Observer — Architecture

A Martha Stewart Home of Your Own
Mark Robbins, dean of Syracuse University's School of Architecture, offers a slide show critique the Stewart-branded tract development by KB Home. Judge for yourself.
via Business Week — Architecture

Interview: Rem Koolhaas
Rem talks about politics, porn, evil, ugliness, Disney and the Victorian apartment building where he lives.
via SPIEGEL — Architecture

Interview: Wes Janz of One Small Project
Wes Janz talks about his work as an architect and an educator, his book/web project (featured previously on L+L), and what we have to learn from the millions of people who use their own architectural ingenuity to construct a place to call home.
via Archinect — Architecture

"Beyond Belief"
Elizabeth Farrelly has some harsh words for contemporary Aussie residential architecture: "the airhead pomposity of McMansions trickling up to corrupt architectural practice at its source." She lists her picks for the better recent projects as well.
via SMH — Architecture

"The house that the Central Artery built"
Single Speed Design reused material from the dismantled Central Artery in Boston to create a house for an engineer of the Big Dig. We featured this nearly two years ago when the proposal was awarded Metropolis' Next Generation Design Prize.
via Boston Globe — Architecture

Green Pitt
Brad Pitt has gone through many phases of architectural interest, and now it appears he has gone green. He will narrate a PBS series on green architecture, finally using his celebrity to promote design - green design. Good one on ya, Brad.
via MSNBC — Architecture

Interview: John Brown
MocoLoco has an interview with University of Calgary Architecture Professor and partner of architecture firm Housebrand, John Brown.
via Moco Loco — Architecture

Will Allsop forced to sell his firm
"One of Britain's most celebrated architects, Will Alsop, was forced to sell his business yesterday after being refused work in Britain because of what he claims is an increasing aversion to risk-taking."
via Guardian — Architecture

H-Haus Cube5
Spacious rooms, enviromentally green and comes in bold colours.... can this new 'prototype' house shape the lifestyle of the future? Let's hope so.
via Inhabitat — Architecture

Interview: Cameron Sinclair
The man behind Architecture for Humanity.
via Archinect — Architecture

Your own private playpen
"Forget balance and tranquility. This apartment complex in the Tokyo suburb of Mitaka is all about living off-kilter. Designed by Arakawa and Gins, Reversible Destiny Lofts look more like a McDonald's play structure than a block of shoebox apartments
via Wired — Architecture