Free software delivers a remodeled L.A. duplex
Homeowner hires UCLA architecture student to tutor her in Google Sketch-Up, then designs an impressive remodel.
via LA Times — Architecture

Architects in Glass Houses
It's so clear... it's like... see through.
via NY Times — Architecture

Inside The World's First Billion-Dollar Home
Holy schnikes: "the world's largest and most expensive home: a 27-story skyscraper in downtown Mumbai with a cost nearing $2 billion." Designed by Perkins + Will and Hirsch Bedner Associates. [images]
via Forbes — Architecture

Hazelwood School for the Sensory Impaired
A wise man once said, "If it's not Scottish, it's crap." A new school in Glasgow by Gordon Murray + Alan Dunlop Architects.
via Archidose — Architecture

The Architecture of Ascent
What high-tech camping gear means to architecture. Where are you, you camping architects? Nico? Anyone?
via BLDGBLOG — Architecture

Rem and the Jawas
Or, Rem is a Jawa?!? Ah, right, he's just Dutch.
via Life w/o Buildings — Architecture

Interview: Eric Owen Moss
Baiting, but not much biting.
via Archinect — Architecture

Matrix Bike Storage
Neo would be so proud... and I cannot even find a good pole to lock my two-wheeler to in LA. Thanks, Adriana!
via Treehugger — Architecture

Neutra's VDL Research House II
"It could take $2 million to get the architect's personal residence restored and kept open for public tours." [photos]
via LA Times — Architecture

‘Schindler’s Houses’
A documentary film by German director Heinz Emigholz, (premiering at REDCAT in LA on April 7th), looks at 39 Southern California buildings designed by the Modernist architect.
via LA Times — Architecture

And the Pritzker Prize of 2008 goes to...
Dr. Evil with a French accent?! Sacrebleu, it's Jean Nouvel in his black leather outfit! Félicitations des gars de LandLiving...
via npr — Architecture

Wham ram, thank you ma'am
Is that the longest rammed-earth wall in North America? Or are you just happy to see me? The Nk’Mip Desert Cultural Center in Osoyoos, British Columbia by Hotson Bakker Boniface Haden Architects.
via Architectural Record — Architecture

Nice Tower!
Ouroussoff has an erection for Denari and other New York residential towers. [slideshow]
via NY Times — Architecture

Brad and Me
Yeah, we're New Orleans. Brad was breaking ground on his Make It Right project on Monday. I've been drinking heavily.
via Metropolis — Architecture

The prefab gets a makeover
Everybody loves pre-fad er... fab. An article which is a bit behind the times... at least as far as the title is concerned, but whatever. And we told you about the pre-fab zone coming up at CA Boom... and AH HA! The impetus for the article is revealed. Photos, you know you want to look at 'em.
via LA Times — Architecture

Working for the devil
"Western architects make a killing building monuments for regimes that you wouldn't want to bring home to meet the folks."
via Times — Architecture

Art installation put up for listing
As a nice coincidence, after writing a post about it only few days ago, it seems that Wilson's Turning the Place Over installation and its building could gain English Heritage status and become listed. Excellent!
via Building Design — Architecture

To bid or not to bid... this is the question
"Nuclear energy is back on the agenda, and someone’s got to design the power stations. Martin Pease says he would step up to the challenge, while George Ferguson we owe it to our kids to play no part in it" Join in the debate
via Building Design — Architecture

The fame in Spain
Archi-tourism, from Gaudí to Gehry, Moneo to the Moors, and more...
via MSNBC — Architecture

Interview: Kengo Kuma
"One of Japan's most celebrated architects, Kengo Kuma is widely known in his home country for his modern take on traditional materials and methods."
via Artkrush — Architecture

Parking Spaces
"Simon Henley's new book, The Architecture of Parking, casts an objective eye over car parks, and finds a strange and haunting beauty"
via guardian — Architecture

Cabe cuts funding to architecture centres
"A row has broken out over the rapid growth of regional architecture centres after Cabe was forced to cut the funding of leading organisations in the capital, including Open House and New London Architecture (NLA)" Take part in the debate by visiting bdonline.co.uk
via Building Design — Architecture

A crafty Corten box by Sarah Wigglesworth
"The rusting Corten steel-clad boxes of Cremorne Riverside Centre near London’s Battersea Bridge reflect its location — wedged between leisure gardens and post-industrial wasteland. Tony McIntyre reports"
via Building Design — Architecture

Remaking the Condo With Light and Air
You've seen it before, but try it again... Lorcan O’Herlihy's Habitat 825 in West Hollywood, California.
via NY Times — Architecture

One mammoth task
"A snowboarder minimizes land impact and honors mountains with a constructivist cabin."
via LA Times — Architecture

Pink Lower Ward
Our friends at Graft and megastar architecture fan Brad Pitt joined together to create a rehabilitative master plan for the Lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans. They donated time, money and effort, and so can you...
via archinect — Architecture

Help us Neil Denari, you're our only hope
Denari builds again! A look at his first completed residential design, an addition in Los Angeles.
via NY Times — Architecture

Small City, Big Impact
How West Hollywood is casting itself as a green leader.
via Newsweek — Architecture

World of BMW
Nice pics of Coop Himmelb(l)au's new starchitecture piece in Munique. The building is scheduled to be inaugurated on the 20th of October, and you will be able to watch it live on the BMW website... Congrats, Dionicio!
via tagesschau — Architecture

U2 tower switcheroo
A year ago we Clipped an article stating that the U2 tower designed by Burdon Craig Dunne Henry had been submitted to the Dublin Docklands Development Authority. A year later, the competition wining local firm has been replaced by Sir Norman Foster.
via Telegraph — Architecture