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Hey Kids, It’s National Design Week!Who knew? I didn't. I wasn't paying attention in class again. Oh well, now it will be a short design week... and I like short weeks. Hooray for design.
Lightning Power"Alternative Energy Holdings plans to be the first company to tap into the natural energy produced by a thunderstorm."
Another recap from the Venice BiennaleMason White delivers a "dishevelled heap" of images and text (L+L style... we like it like that) from the Venice Architecture Biennal.
R.I.H. GutterBorn May 9, 2005. Died September 15, 2006. We grieve (nah)... blow off (more like it) the loss of a good friend (hardly)... brilliant wit (not really)... sporadically entertaining (that's it) and ill-mannered pundit of the architectural arts.
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."
L.A. replacing signature palm trees with natives"The trees are dying of old age and a fungal disease, disappearing one by one from parks and streets, and city planners are replacing them with oaks, sycamores and other species that are actually native to Los Angeles and offer more shade, too."
A river liberatedSeoul, Korea's revitalized Cheonggyecheon stream was rescued from its concrete channel provides inspiration for what the Los Angeles River could become.
Keeping It ‘Green’ With Panels and MoreResidential builders are (starting) to drive the green building trend.
Surely not the last words on the Tenth Venice Architecture Biennale, 2006Hugh Pearman on the 2006 Biennale.
RIBA Stirling Prize 2006And the winner is the Barajas Airport in Madrid, designed by Richard Rogers Partnership.
To a TAtlanta's Design Museum's exhibit devoted to t-shirts. Running October, 19 2006, to January 13, 2007.
PlantwallAn interior vertical landscape system by Green Fortune, a Swedish company dedicated to "urban cultivation."
Vast O.C. project no walk in the parkAnd finally... a review of the latest Great Park scheme. (Phew... that's quite enough landscape news from Southern California for one day.) [images]
A walk through the (Great) park"Ken Smith's design team shares the latest Great Park plans with about 1,000 people." [photos]
Revisions to the Great ParkThe first in a trio of recent articles about the Orange County Great Park... here is Ken Smith's first revision. "Irvine Park Envisioned as a Bold 'Cultural Experiment'." [image]
The Cornfield final threeThree proposals for the Los Angeles State Historic Park (AKA the Cornfield) designed by Field Operations, Mia Lehrer & Associates and Hargreaves Associates. [images]
In the battle to be green, the human factor can work wonders"...what's best for cities is also best for nature... A sustainable city is virtually indistinguishable from a healthy one."
Joel Kotkin is a New UrbanistEither he doesn't understand New Urbanism, or he is pulling a bait and switch to blatantly steal its ideology. Either way, he's a New Urbanist... and a blowhard.
'The Architecture of Happiness'"The architecture and sense of style around us can change affect moods and explain something about ourselves. That's the crux of Alain de Botton's argument in his new book The Architecture of Happiness."
Seidler's SydneyReflecting on the late Harry Seidler's impacts on Sydney and Australian architecture.
Grain ElevatorsBeautiful photos of American grain elevators from the Library of Congress Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record.
IDEO's Urban Pre-Planning"IDEO is messing with the DNA of the planning process. They’re changing it from a concrete process of infrastructure and building to an imagined one of narrative and identity; they’re exchanging the idea of a place for place itself."
2006 ASLA Annual Meeting/43rd IFLA World Congress Podcasts & VideoPoscasts include interviews with Ken Smith, Jean Michel Cousteau and Kongjian Yu, and video clips of meeting sessions and award presentations.
Urban Grids / Respiratory OasesA proposal to dipatch a three-dimensional architectural tile that clean the air thoughout cities as a means of environmental and visual improvement for urban landscapes.
Reinventing the wheelA concept for stackable electric cars as part of an integrated urban transportation system to solve the "last mile" problem of getting home from a central hub.