07.27.2009
Citybuilt has a new project space! Check us out at 3420 VERDUGO ROAD, and stay tuned for event announcements . . . READ MORE HERE.
One to check out: The urban art show at Irvine Contemporary in D.C. RIGHT HERE
Ask Jean Parker Phifer about public art CHECK IT OUT
Brooklyn Architecture project space SUPERFRONT is coming to L.A. HERE
WPA 2.0 competition deadline is coming up quick, get your thinking hats on . . . HERE
05.25.2009
Citybuilt has a new project space! Check us out at 3420 VERDUGO ROAD, and stay tuned for event announcements . . . READ MORE HERE.
After last week’s anti-tax election results, hold on for huge cuts in parks and public spaces (along with everything else). . . RIGHT HERE
Times Square experiment hands the road over to pedestrians and cyclists . . . CHECK IT OUT
If you’re in town, check out this amazing show on urbanity and utopian aspirations gone wrong at Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Photography. . . . HERE
Space farming will save us . . ?
More foreclosure by-products: suburban squatters moving into the OC . . . RIGHT HERE
04.18.2009
Citybuilt has a new project space! Check us out at 3420 VERDUGO ROAD, and stay tuned for event announcements . . . READ MORE HERE.
04.15.2009
It’s Zumthor . . read more Pritzker news HERE.
. . and the 'excess' versus 'relevance' debate that’s been sparked by the Zumthor announcement . . HERE and HERE and HERE and FINALLY HERE.
04.6.2009
03.30.2009
Best poster ever . . . reproduced for Colophon 2009 DOWNLOAD IT HERE.
Wired looks back at Architecture that never made it off the drawing board, check out the what ifs . . . HERE
Architalx at the Portland Museum of Art start this week, get the schedule RIGHT HERE.
A group of artists go to work on abandoned houses in New Orleans . . . see it HERE.
03.24.2009
Turn it off for an hour this Saturday . . . FIND OUT HOW.
Beautiful shots of the American West . . . RIGHT HERE.
An old-fashioned idea is new again, cul de sac communes are springing up everywhere . . HERE.
03.19.2009
The Hurricane time forgot . . . the Houston Press is still trying to figure out who’s going to help clean up after Ike . . . READ IT HERE.
Will the Palmdale airport site become a huge solar collector? HERE.
the Whitehouse to have an organic veggie farm . . . READ MORE HERE.
and the blog that started it all . . . HERE.
03.07.2009
India's new mapping software to trump Google Earth . . . HERE.
Top 5 Development Trends for 2009 and housing isn’t one of them . . . RIGHT HERE.
“The future is much more important than the new, the hip and the cool,” and other tips for designers . . . HERE.
And a pretty great idea for old phone booths; bee hive public art . . . HERE.
02.27.2009
Sejima and Nishizawa to design this year’s Serpentine Pavilion READ ABOUT IT HERE.
Community College classrooms, libraries, housing are replacing stores in increasingly empty malls . . . HERE.
Feds lead on Urban Gardening . . . and what it might say about the new Administration’s take on food production and local farming . . . RIGHT HERE.
Awesome Sci-Fi Magazine Covers HERE.
02.18.2009
A contorted shoebox (and) drive-by virtuosity . . . ouch; Hawthorne reviews Mayne’s new one in Pasadena READ IT HERE.
A nice piece on Teddy Cruz in The Nation HERE.
Know your freeways . . . RIGHT HERE.
The World’s best models . . . by James Rojas and everybody else HERE.
02.09.2009
We all saw the fire . . . now who’s to blame? SEE IT HERE.
New LEED testing deadline HERE.
A very thoughtful piece on the depression (yeah, that’s what we’re calling it now) and what it means for the built landscape of America HERE.
02.02.2009
So fun to play with! Check out Toyota’s new website . . .SEE IT HERE.
P.S. 1’s next young architect is - find out HERE.
Will the stimulus package bypass “pencil-ready” for “shovel-ready,” leaving architects out of the funding loop? Read more about it HERE.
Check out the new blog entries HERE.
01.21.2009
Public space . . . it’s not dead after all, SEE IT HERE.
From the Labs at MIT, the ability to visualize the dynamics of a whole city in real-time by monitoring cell phone traces HERE.
Why rats like the gridiron . . . HERE.
And a well-needed re-design of a website you might know . . .CHECK IT OUT.
01.13.2009
If you’re a geek like us, you’ll want to watch the hearings for Shaun Donovan, potential Housing & Urban Development Secretary HERE.
AIA awards for regional and urban planning announced RIGHT HERE.
The Architectural League of New York launches UrbanOmnibus HERE.
A tour down Venice Boulevard compliments of Polar Inertia and Corbin Smith CHECK IT OUT.
01.03.2009 . . HAPPY NEW YEAR
The housing situation just gets weirder and weirder: A new use for rooftop mechanical boxes in Brooklyn HERE, sleepy California town reports record number of issued building permits HERE, and malls converted into housing HERE.
Blame HGTV for the housing crisis? Read the argument RIGHT HERE.
Images from the frontlines . . . CHECK IT OUT.
12.16.2008
A Nice Story on “The Savior of Architecture” HERE.
A Merry Gentrification Christmas Story RIGHT HERE.
Issue #1 (the second installment) of the efflux journal is out now! CHECK IT OUT.
A wonderful and inspiring conversation with the Campana brothers via DEZEEN.
12.4.2008
How to steal the Empire state building. HERE.
Hennessey + Ingalls has an eastside store now! Get the address HERE.
Thong optional: Art Basel Miami Beach THIS WEEK.
11.21.2008
Ugly yes, but in the most beautiful way possible. The top ten ugliest buildings are right HERE.
Better hustle and get that LEED certification, Obama and the U.S. Green Building Council are gonna make green buildings THE LAW.
That’s It. New building codes for mobile homes; take heed prefab builders. Read about it RIGHT HERE.
08.30.2007
Check out our newest Citybuilt project, One Year Inside Park La Brea, an ongoing experiment from within L.A.'s most famous gated community. ACCESS IT HERE.
Pave the parking lot and put up a park? Here'a a proposal to bury the Hollywood freeway and slap a great civic space on top TAKE A LOOK HERE.
Apparently, women are a barometer for safe public spaces READ MORE HERE.
Log off, Shut down and get your NoSo on HERE.
Don't forget, Park(ing) Day is coming PLAN FOR IT HERE.
08.16.2007
Check out our newest Citybuilt project, One Year Inside Park La Brea, an ongoing experiment from within L.A.'s most famous gated community. ACCESS IT HERE.
Ancient Sprawl: Archaeologists say the fall of Angor Wat was rooted in congestion and infrastructure problems, much like those we're facing now READ ABOUT IT HERE.
100 things to do instead of watching HBO every night RIGHT HERE.
A wonderful show on public spaces at Cleveland's MOCA. If you're in the area, see it before it closes Monday HERE'S A RUNDOWN.
And a truly public space in itself, Seattle's all-things-traffic blog, "the Clog" EXIT HERE.
08.03.2007
A database for derelict structures throughout the country. See the "Lost but Not Forgotten" HERE.
Also gone but not forgotten, George Yu 1964-2007 READ MORE HERE.
And for a cheer up, the droll, stream-of-consciousness ramblings of everyone's favorite British architecure and cultural critic, Ian Martin RIGHT HERE.
07.26.2007
Public space just got more interesting. MIT students and researchers harness "crowd power" and test it as an alternative fuel. READ MORE HERE.
The public domain just got a lot more interesting too. Tons of new (and free) books are online at The Open Library's new site. FIND THEM HERE.
You can monitor air quality with your handheld ERGO. Check out other related products and processes UCLA's REMAP is developing for "participatory urbanism." READ MORE HERE.
In totally unrelated news, Dubai City Guide gets a record 1.7 million hits in first three weeks of June. READ MORE HERE, and then see what Dubai has to offer HERE.
06.27.2007
The Tate Modern's "Global Cities" show opened over the weekend, check out its offereings HERE.
L.A.'s urban art collective Heavy Trash struck again early Sunday morning in the Fairfax district READ MORE HERE.
If you still haven't read Philip Nobel's piece in this month's Meltropolis magazine, it's here for viewing. What a refreshing (and biting) take on architecture's big "A", not to mention potential new (and some old) ways of practicing. READ IT HERE.
Speaking of new ways of practicing, here are a grip of fresh ideas about building better easements, innovations in vertical farming, and new land use development maps taking global sea level rises into consideration. Strangely, none of these innovations come from starchitects.
06.20.2007
Sydney did it first, now London's going dark for one hour on this Thursday (summer solstice) to make a widespread show of support for conservation. See how it works and get info on other spots where its happening HERE.
. . .Also from London, Peter Cook gets knighted. READ MORE HERE.
If you are in the New York area, stop by and help Benjamin Ball and Gaston Nogues set up their canopies at PS1 - the young architects winners' show opens to the public on June 21st. READ MORE HERE.
Read how one man fought red tape to get his work into the public domain HERE.
All week long they're debating urban sprawl, slow growth and density in the L.A. Times. See if it gets us anywhere HERE.
06.07.2007
See how L.A. bureaucrats plan to restore Griffith Park after last month's fire HERE.
Amnesty International will begin using Google Earth satellite technology as a panopticon-esque deterrent to warlords in Sudan. SEE IT HERE.
Coast around awhile at Roni Horn's beautiful flash-based exhibit where she indexes water, weather and the places in between. SEE IT HERE.
Zombies invade an SF Apple store, looking for brains at the genius bar. SEE IT HERE.
Speaking of panopticons . . . anyone can find you, or you can find anyone else's wireless signal HERE. On a slightly different note, you can see where people are actually congregating through out your city, via this user- generated running route map. Add your route HERE.
05.23.2007
Yet another competition (this one for Urban Design students) on how to revitalize Los Angeles' core and river. UC Berkeley group comes out on top of a stellar crop of entries, none of whom happen to come from L.A. design schools by the way. TAKE A LOOK HERE.
Five architecture students document their journey through their own thesis projects, and call the film Architorture. God knows mine was. SEE IT HERE.
More proof that our own noisy urban condition can dictate innovation in design HERE, or if you can't beat 'em, join 'em and buld THIS in your apartment.
05.18.2007
Intermodality Rules! Christof Speiler explains. READ MORE HERE .
Indexical urban walking -- proof that leaving the car behind offers a deeper understanding of the city in which you live. SEE BUNCHES OF WALKS HERE.
And while on the subject of ditching the car and intermodality, we want to inform you it's national bike to work week.
Amsterdam citizen group Waag Society takes the intermodality index to a new level with this realtime GPS map of individuals' movement through the city. They call it, "a diary in traces" READ ABOUT IT HERE
05.09.2007
This conversation may be mapped READ MORE HERE.
We love this documentation of the sunset strip by Joel Holmberg (plus props for shooting on a noisy scooter); Ed Ruscha's got nothing on this guy. SEE WHY HERE.
See all the different ways people use public spaces HERE
04.30.2007
Immigration marches in Houston are usually covered as political events, but what are the urban ramifications of the debate? READ MORE HERE.
It's not Frank, Thom or Eric Owen: Fritz Haeg wins honors to represent L.A. at the Tate Modern's Global Cities show and we couldn't be happier. READ MORE HERE and HERE
They've already announced the 100 best buildings, now it's the 10 greenest. Is that a real word? FIND OUT HERE
Some smart High schoolers in Maine pull off a public art stunt in a suburban mall. SEE WHY WE LOVE THEM FOR IT HERE.
04.16.2007
Why does Reyner Banham love Los Angeles? SEE WHY HERE.
Can scientists and robots replace architects and builders? Here's some pretty great work by Swiss bricklaying-bots but, YOU BE THE JUDGE.
Want to display that breathtaking shot of Loop 610 at sundown, or the industrial cool of the shipping channel perhaps? Anyone can enter the 600 sq. mi. photo exhibit, set for September in Houston. GET INFO HERE
04.10.2007
National Architecture Week 2007 breeds more city pride in Chicago, Windy Citybuilders, check it out HERE. And some architect humor to go with it HERE.
The Vitra Design Museum and ARt Center College of Design's "Open House: Architecture and Technology for Intelligent Living" opens this week. GET A PREVIEW HERE
04.05.2007
Design & build your very own PEEPs for Easter HOW TO HERE. Then test their structural capabilities HERE.
The Design Trust for Public Space's ode to the cab, TAXI 07, opens for one short week in New York. SEE IT HERE
St. Louis, meet Rick Lowe. Project Row Houses founder presents "Towards Social Sculpture" at WashU next week. FIND OUT MORE HERE
04.02.2007
Richard Rogers wins the Pritzker. READ MORE HERE
Houston, sign up now to instigate active change your city HERE
DigiFab Houston welcomes Servo's David Erdman and Softspace's Sean Lally to UofH for a talk on new possibilities in architectural process. FIND OUT MORE HERE
Las Vegas city builders are beginning to get a glimpse of towers rising at MGM's CityCenter READ ABOUT IT HERE, and READ Gregory Rodriguez's dose of reality upon visiting the new development.
03.27.2007
If you're in New York, head to this event by urban forum dissing Starchitects. READ MORE HERE. But first, read this burn by the L.A. Times on thier own hometown starchy, Tom Mayne. HERE
Check out this opensource software-created airspace mapping. If you're a pilot, you can make your own map. DOWNLOAD IT HERE , but watch out for the flag and gigantic eagles.
03.22.2007
It's been a year since rebar started mapping SF POPOs, see what they've come up with HERE
Could this really work? A proposal to make cities more manageable by removing freeways. READ MORE HERE
We agree with #5 and with #10, but Lou Kahn coming at #80 ??? The AIA releases it's "most loved American buildings" list. JUDGE IT HERE
03.18.2007
Why do we love Heavy Trash? . . . FIND OUT HERE
Fastfood Reclamation: Artist documents the reincarnated real estate of KFC, McDonalds and more. READ MORE HERE
New Yorkers find out what L.A. & Houston have known for a while; the suburban debate is not as easy as good vs. evil READ MORE HERE and HERE
03.11.2007
Houston Third Ward/Project Row Houses Documentary debuts at SXSW. READ MORE HERE
LA's first incarnation of the yearly Urban Iditarod (also seen in Portland, SF, Chicago and NY) wrapped up this weekend. READ MORE HERE
03.09.2007
Tracking a city for Mess Punkt READ MORE HERE
Keller Easterling wins this year's Pritzker Prize. Just kidding. But we think she should. WATCH A LECTURE
03.08.2007
check out some of these L.A.-inspired short videos from Rhizome.org artists SEE THEM HERE
Don't innovate. Immitate. A convincing proposal for open source architecture by Architecture for Humanity. READ MORE HERE and HERE
