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Harbour plan needs daffiness weeded outA critique of the winning proposal for Toronto's waterfront designed by the team lead by West 8.
High Tech, the Eames WayThe Eameses' displays for the IBM Pavilion at the 1964 World's Fair are now up for auction.
Ikea accused of building blots on the landscapeChain stores are "spending a fortune" marketing cheap furnishings while "appearing to give no thought" to what the shops look like from outside.
The most Modern town in BritainEast Tilbury in Essex was a modernist workers' utopia built by a Czech shoe salesman with global ambitions. Could it be about to rise again?
Urban Voids Grand WinnerThe Grand Winner has been selected from Phase II of the Van Alen Institute's Urban Voids Competition: Charles Loomis Charisse McAfee Architects.
Pacis ModernaRichard Meier's new Ara Pacis museum is the first building to be constructed in Rome's historical center since the Fascist era.
Raked SandA photographer from Guernsey rakes images into the sand and then photographs them from above using a kite.
SimCity - UrvilleYoung Frenchman Gilles Tréhin has spent more than two decades documenting the imaginary city of Urville. 200 drawings accompanied by extensive historical notes.
Fence it offFive (of 13 invited) architects and urban planners devise proposals for the controversial border fence between Mexico and the United States. (multimedia slideshow)
Are our cities making us fat?I thought it was the potato chips and candy and soda... but maybe it's just me. Apparently some fitness experts think New Urbansim can solve America's obesity problem. Becuase then you'd walk down to the corner store to buy your junk food.
Survey of Designers Salaries 2006The AIGA / Aquent survey of designer salaries, largely in the U.S.
D.C. disses MiesOfficials want to sell the Martin Luther King Memorial Library - the only building in Washington D.C. designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
Submit your pictures of urban growthThe BBC is running a special season of features, quizzes, picture galleries and statistical guides on world urbanization starting next week. Send your images to yourpics@bbc.co.uk.
Roar_one - a paradigm shift in urban architectureLang Wilson Practice in Architecture Culture have designed a development of stacked homes in Vancouver that seeks to change urban living. "Our approach is to build the maximum volume possible, then use filters and perforation to mediate and alleviate the mass. The challenge is how to manage density in such a way that it is efficient and maximizes livability."
The challenges facing an urban worldAs mentioned here on L+L before, and shouted from the rooftops by the likes of Mike Davis, the world is fast approaching the point where the majority of the human population will be found in urban areas... sometime in 2007.
First place - go gravestmor!Hannah Tribe and Gravestmor editor Marcus Trimble have won the North Sydney Transport Interchange competition. Check it out.
Case Study in Duplicate"Rodney Walker's landmark House 16 helped to define modern living but then was demolished. Now his sons have brought it back -- twice." (Registration might be req'd)
FLLWright's Guggenheim Museum under wrapsWright's famous New York City building has been encapsulated in scaffolding as extensive exterior restoration work continues. It will be unwrapped in 2007.
A surprisingly large number of homeowners seem to think that nature wants them deadThe challeneges of a nature-loving landscape.
Belmont/Thurman LoftsTwo mixed-use urban developments projects in Portland, Oregon designed by Holst Architecture. Nice.
Designing the Future of New OrleansWinners of the "High Density on the High Ground" and "New Orleans Prototype House" ideas competitions sponsored by Architectural Record and Tulane University.
Monumental woesSeptember 11th memorial to be redesigned after contractors concluded that the current proposal could cost nearly $1 billion.
Tending 'Defiant Gardens' During Wartime"War gardens -- not just victory gardens, grown in time of scarcity, but those planted on hostile fronts, including Eastern Europe's ghettos and the Japanese-American internment camps of World War II."
Party wallsPhotos by José Antonio Millán documenting the vestiges of demolished spaces left on suddenly one-sided party walls.
'It's a monster. But if it stops changing, it will die'As the London Architecture Biennale kicks off, its director Peter Ackroyd tells Jonathan Glancey how money has transformed the city - and will make it almost unrecognisable by 2010
Landscape futuresMajor catastrophes and gradual geological change will dramatically alter many of the earth's landscapes during the next million years.... same forecast as the last million years.
Powers of TenThe brilliant 1977 short film dealing with the relative sizes of things in the universe by Charles and Ray Eames. Not just reel-to-reel, now online.
The Wright IntentionA little Archicad promo details Thomas A. Heinz's efforts to realize an unbuilt Frank Lloyd Wright design from 1950.
Sunset's 2006 Idea HouseHenry Siegel of Siegel and Strain Architects, designed this year's Sunset Magazine Celebration Idea House showcasing a green design constructed of SIPs panels.