Smart homes a reality in S Korea
"More than 100 homes offering smart technology have just been built in South Korea and another 30,000 are planned."
via BBC — Interiors

It’s still hip to be square in Ireland.
"The prestigious Opus architecture Awards have recognised once again Ireland’s love of the rectangular."
via Times — Architecture

Swiss Alps Holiday House
Ahhh... a dose of modern Alpine architecture to feed my fetish. Designed by Andreas Fuhrimann Gabrielle Hächler.
via Archidose — Architecture

European Cities Do Away with Traffic Signs
"Are streets without traffic signs conceivable? Seven cities and regions in Europe are giving it a try -- with good results."
via Spiegel — Urban

Utopia
A digital typeface that portrays the mixture between the modernist architecture of Oscar Niemeyer and informal occupation of the urban space that shapes major Brazilian cities.
via BLDGBLOG — Misc

High performance infrastructure
The possibilities of urban streetscapes and landscapes that work to treat stormwater, recharge groundwater, and that add encourage biodiversity. (PDF)
via Planetizen — Urban

Call for entries - AIA/COTE Top Ten Green Projects 2007
The American Institute of Architects' Comittee on the Environment has announced its call for the 2007 Top Ten Green Projects. Submission deadline is Wednesday, January 17, 2007.
via AIA — Competitions

Quake study tests a home's strength
"The experiment will put a California-built house on top of a simulated 6.7 quake. Engineers want to see how it holds up."
via LA Times — Architecture

A challenge, loud and clear
The lot was between a freeway and an airport -- one of the noisiest sites in San Diego -- but Lloyd Russell built his house anyway.
via LA Times — Architecture

PANTONE Color Cue 2
A kick-ass little hand-held device that enables you to cross match any material or surface to two PANTONE Libraries.
via InfoAesthetics — Misc

Duisburg-Nord at Night
Photos of the "phantasmagorical lighting installation" designed by Jonathan Park for Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord, the former industrial site cum public park by Peter Latz. (see also L+L 8/30/2005 "Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord")
via Pruned — Landscape

book
For 36 weeks, a sketchbook was sent in random order between 4 artists, each artist responding to the previous spread.
via design*sponge — Art

The blueprints of urban unrest
"Were the riots on the edges of French cities caused, in whole or in part, by the utopian-intentioned housing enclaves...?"
via Globe and Mail — Urban

The Firm
What Skidmore, Owings & Merrill did for American architecture. [Slide show]
via Slate — Architecture

Melbourne is Australia's "Petri dish for young architects"
Melbourne's new architectural stars: Andrew Maynard, Peter Ho (PHOOEY Architects), Simon Knott (BKK Architects), and Cassandra Fahey (Cassandra Complex).
via SMH — Architecture

One Thousand and One Persian Landscapes
Some amazing images of Persian manuscript paintings from an exhibition at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art.
via Pruned — Art

Interiview: Claude Cormier
Monrteal based landscape architect Claude Cormier (see also L+L 7/1/2005 "I'm going to Cormierland!").
via Moco Loco — Landscape

Hats off to a new Pompidou centre
Shigeru Ban's design for the new Centre Pompidou-Metz. [images]
via Telegraph — Architecture

Call For Entries - 2007 ASLA Professional and Student Awards
The American Society of Landscape Architects 1007 awards... entry forms must be received by 2/9/07 for Professional Awards, and 5/18/07 for Student Awards.
via The Dirt — Competitions

Modernism's mass producers
LA's Modernist tract homes for the masses designed by William Krisel, D. Wallace Benton and Donald G. Park. Tour this Sunday (10/29/06).
via LA Times — Architecture

Interview: Will Alsop
'I've learned never to trust anyone with big feet and a small head'
via Guardian — Designers

A cornfield in LA
The Archinect forum is going off on the previously Clipped (numerous times) Cornfield (or Los Angeles State Historic Park) competition. Lots of opinions, links, conspiracy theories and shit talking.
via Archinect — Landscape

Building the Green Way
Ten rules for building green on a standard budget.
via The Slatin Report — Green

The artist's right to retreat into a faraway place
Philip Kennicott thinks that Maya Lin has "retreated from the battlefield of ideas."
via Washington Post — Art

Can The U.S. Learn From The Slow City Movement?
"With its emphasis on good food, sustainable living, and local community, the Slow City movement is spreading across Europe. But what potential is there for the movement to make the jump across the Atlantic?"
via Planetizen — Urban

It’s not easy being green in Great Britian
"Builders won’t commit to ecofriendly homes until people are willing to pay for them."
via Times — Green

PoMo is back!
"Postmodernism is back, and this time it's got much more going for it," says Hugh Pearman.
via Gabion — Architecture

What Hadid Has Done for Architecture
An interview with the Zaha.
via Wall Street Journal — Architecture

For sale: Case Study House #21
Pierre Koenig’s 1958 Case Study House #21 in Los Angeles is going on the auction block.
via Curbed — News

Mobilier à jardiner
5.5 Designers puts the "garden" in garden furniture.
via Moco Loco — Outdoor