First Job? Share the Bounty
The dysfunctional story of a child turned architect, his fearful money-bag parents, and his coat-tailing designer friends.
via NY Times — Architecture

Parking Garages Driven to Good Design
Pack 'em, stack 'em, and rack 'em... but make it purty, please.
via Architectural Record — Architecture

"The Architect"
"Architect" status means that you're among the highest levels of importance and power... unless of course you are actually an architect, as in designer of buildings.
via LA Times — Architecture

The High Line's Perpetual Lap Dance
Heheh... that's a good one. More Standard Hotel NY porn.
via Curbed — Architecture

Straddle that High Line, baby
Take a look at the new Standard Hotel taking shape astride the High Line in New York City. Giddyup.
via Curbed — Architecture

Two Infusions of Vision to Bolster New Orleans
A look at the two visionary proposals that capture the democratic spirit of New Orleans: The Jazz Center/Jazz Park by Morphosis, and the six-mile riverfront redevelopment by TEN Arquitectos, Hargreaves Associates and Chan Krieger Sieniewicz. [slideshow]
via NY Times — Architecture

Rem Koolhaas, superstar
"Here is an architect who could happily sit down one day with God to design refined and purposeful public buildings knitted into the fabric of old cities, and the next with the devil to design the wayward architecture demanded by ultra-capitalism."
via Guardian — Architecture

Russo Club - Talca, Chile
Architects Felipe Assadi + Francisca Pulido admit that they never fully understood the program for this groovy-ass project.
via Archidose — Architecture

Architecture School
The Sundance Channel is apparently filming a documentary following students from Tulane University.
via Life w/o Buildings — Architecture

Video: The seventh Serpentine Gallery Pavilion
Take a step inside London's Serpentine Pavilion by Olafur Eliasson and Kjetil Thorsen... which opened today!
via Guardian — Architecture

Designers hired for LAX Theme Building
"For $1.1 million, Gin Wong Associates will draw plans to modernize and strengthen the icon." Daily Breeze
via The Aesthetic — Architecture

In the hall of the mountain king
Hugh Perlman gets inside the 2007 Serpentine pavilion.
via Gabion — Architecture

A Pitt in New Orleans
We're like giggling school girls with all the Brad Pitt action in the design related news this week. First he was at the Farnsworth House, now he's touring a Global Green house under construction in New Orleans. Article complete with hunky photo of the Pitt... not the house.
via Washington Post — Architecture

Ennis House Restoration Completed
Frank Lloyd Wright's Ennis Brown House in Los Angeles was severely damaged buy an earthquake in 1994 and by heavy rains in 2004 & 2005.
via Curbed — Architecture

City sets parameters for cargo container use
"[Palos Verdes City] Council voted 4-0 (Councilman Larry Clark was absent) to introduce an ordinance that places limitations on how residents may use cargo containers on their properties." (PV News)
via The Aesthetic — Architecture

What's so bad about modern architecture?
I never said there was anything bad, did you? Well?! Did you!?! [slideshow]
via Wall Street Journal — Architecture

Georgetown Modern
Luxist's Estate of the Day is a four-story Le Corbusier-inspired structure in Washington DC.
via Luxist — Architecture

Work as a Contest
Imagine a doctor or lawyer competing for a client by doing all of the work up front before being selected for the "gig." Hahaha! No professional would be THAT stupid... well... except for architects.
via NY Times — Architecture

Opdahl Remastered
"Case Study architect Edward Killingsworth’s masterpiece, the 1957 Opdahl House, fell into ruin, but thanks to a musician with a passion for modernism, it is celebrating its 50th anniversary in mint condition."
via Dwell — Architecture

Here today, gone tomorrow
"Space-age cubes, rooftop pods, giant caravan cities and garden sheds you can practically live in ... Steve Rose chronicles the rise of portable architecture."
via Guardian — Architecture

Woz tackles Energy-Efficient Housing
Steve Wozniak (of Apple fame) has set his sights on energy-efficient housing. It's all about "simple design".
via Slashdot — Architecture

Modernism gets brutalist treatment
Yeah, yeah, yeah... Modern architecture is threatened... feels like I've Clipped a million of these articles, and yet I Clip again. Read it, will ya?
via Financial Times — Architecture

Queens Botanical Garden
Archidose takes a sneak peak at the new Visitor's Center for the Queens Botanical Garden which has been designed with sights on a LEED platinum rating. (see also L+L 9/16/2004).
via Archidose — Architecture

Frank Lloyd Wright the player
The juicy story of Wright's infamous affair with a client's wife.
via NPR — Architecture

Pre-fad... I mean fab slideshow
We think pre-fab is cool... but we all know that it is boutique rather than mass-market. Slate takes a look at the current state of the fad. [slideshow]
via Slate — Architecture

Bottoms up
A crazy demolition of a 1960's office tower in London which is coming down... by going up.
via UnBeige — Architecture

Here's mud in your.... house
What's a more naturally abundant resource than dirt? Well... there was that house by Andrew Maynard made from shit...
via Globe and Mail — Architecture

Álvaro Siza
The Portuguese architect profiled... why didn't our Portuguese L+L contributor Clip this? Slacker. [audio sideshow]
via NY Times — Architecture

007 House
I could be wrong but I think this Rob Paulus designed home -- or one very similar -- was in Dwell a year or three ago.
via Architectnophilia — Architecture

Beach chic turns surf noir
"The classic coastal vibe -- so warm and bright -- gets a cool dose of darkness."
via LA Times — Architecture