"Crazy House"
Looking back on Corbu's Unité d'Habitation.
via Globe and Mail — Architecture

Architecture's dying art
A retrospective devoted to the work of architect-turned-illustrator David Macaulay is on view at the National Building Museum through 1/21/08. "...Handmade sketches... are becoming obsolete as a younger generation of architects increasingly relies on the computer to draw and design." [images]
via Washington Times — Events

Street View serendipity
Little slices of urban life captured and mapped by Google.
via Veer — Urban

Donal McLaughlin - way beyond architecture
A Yale trained architect, Donal McLaughlin is "a designer with a career that had placed him at the center of some of the major events of the twentieth century." Among his accomplishments is the design of the United Nations emblem.
via Design Observer — Designers

Forever Eames
"A hundred years ago, a Modernist icon was born. Charles Eames went on to craft the new California home with wife Ray." [images]
via LA Times — Architecture

Peter Märkli
Swiss architect Peter Märkli "is currently one of the most vital voices in Europe." [images]
via Building Design — Architecture

Slideshow: Stirling Prize finalists
The shortlist for RIBA's prestigious Stirling prize for architecture is comprised of David Chipperfield Architects, OMA, Foster + Partners, Glenn Howells Architects and Haworth Tompkins.
via Guardian — Architecture

Green jobs
The "green" phenomenon is creating jobs in fields like urban planning, carbon trading, green building and environmental consulting.
via Newsweek — Green

I Love Paris on a Bus, a Bike, a Train and in Anything but a Car
Paris hates car owners.
via NY Times — Urban

"George was quiet"
Metropolis remembers George Yu, including quotes from Thom Mayne and Eric Owen Moss along with a couple images of George's recently completed project in Pasadena.
via Metropolis — Architecture

In My Backyard
The critic become the criticized... how's it feel beyotch?!
via Metropolis — Architecture

This house smells like shit
Actually, it IS shit. Figuring that no building is actually green, Australian Architect Andrew Maynard has devised a concept he calls the Poop House... a house that actually builds itself through the accumulation of solid waste. Think this idea is full of shit? See for yourself.
via Treehugger — Architecture

Better View
A roll-up black-out curtain with perforated city views by Finnish designer Elina Aalto of Fiasko Design.
via Cool Hunting — Accessories

Architecture as an alternative
"...Rarely have architectural skills been used to try to change the outcome of a controversy in the way one might use tree-sitting or monkey-wrenching. Now, a small group is doing just that in the Charpieds' neighborhood, an isolated outpost called Eagle Mountain."
via LA Times — Architecture

When Landscape Is Architecture
Jealous of all of the attention Landscape Architecture has garnered as of late, architects are moving in on landscape territory. Some "innovative projects reimagine the natural world in a technological age."
via Business Week — Landscape

Call for Entries: Design Vanguard 2007
Arch Record's annual Design Vanguard issue showcases the work of 10 emerging architects from around the world. Deadline is August 6th.
via Architectural Record — Competitions

Gettin' high in TJ
High rises in Tijuana.
via Union Tribune — Urban

Ice, ice, baby
A New York City office building on the rocks... large blocks of ice keep the building at 74 degrees during the day and save a cool million per year in energy costs.
via NPR — Green

Bike Sharing to save cities
The first rule of bike sharing is...
via Inhabitat — Urban

Interview: Jean Nouvel
The Architect talks about music, women's fashion, his work, ethics, his penchant for black attire, and his cat: Mr. Bigglesworth. [images & video]
via design boom — Architecture

discovering Helvetica... that's right... the typeface!
An intriguing and quirky movie/documentary about a typeface that is anywhere and everywhere globally (!)... "His (director Gary Hustwit) first attempt at a full-length documentary, shot on a credit-card budget and made up of interviews with designers and typographers, has somehow become a global phenomenon." Andrew Dickson tells us more.
via Guardian — Graphics

Funky colours and material choice for London Daycare Centre
A bright and colorful new addition to Maryland Primary School, London, by Fluid Architects... lets hope this London example will enable every architect to create bright and innovative design (that differs from brick architecture) which has the support of every UK government planning department.
via Building Design — Architecture

15 Green Cities
Grist's list of cities that deserve recognition for making impressive strides toward eco-friendliness.
via Grist — Green

Lost Vanguard: Soviet Modernist Architecture 1922-32
Nicolai Ourossoff visits Richard Pare's exhibition of photographs at MOMA. Slideshow includes buildings by Konstantin Melnikov and Corbu.
via NY Times — Architecture

Pretty yet practical
"Sustainable gardens at London garden exhibition offer Californians some ideas and a look at the future."
via LA Times — Landscape

George Yu, Vanguard Architect
More on George Yu who passed away last week... a nice bio outlining his life and career.
via Architectural Record — Architecture

The Wild West Meets the Wild East
A Podcast of Los Angeles architects working in China as well as USC's new Dean, Qingyun Ma. Plus, Thom Mayne talks about the late George Yu.
via KCRW — Architecture

Interview: Brave Space Design
An old L+L fave, Brave Space talks about their work including their new Hollow Line, which is pretty darn groovy.
via Moco Loco — Furniture

Portland Recognized as Leading City for Landscape Architecture
Well alrighty then.
via Yahoo — Landscape

Modernism at risk; why you should care
A growing number of important modern structures are threatened with demolition.
via Chicago Tribune — Architecture