2007 Royal Gold Medal
And the Medal goes to... Edward Cullinan, the London architect who specializes in sustainable design.
via RIBA — Architecture

Interview: Lebbeus Woods
Now here's an architect I haven't heard much of lately... THE avant-garde visionary speaks... with lots of images. Check it.
via BLDGBLOG — Architecture

"Cube-y fun in West LA!"
Curbed LA seems to like Kanner Architects' new condominium proposal, and heck, so do we.
via Curbed — Architecture

Architecture and music
Taking a look at the phenomenon and evolution of concert halls... including a slideshow of concert halls old and new around the world.
via Business Week — Architecture

San Francisco's Wright
Two Wrights in one day... what's wrong? Ahem. A visit to the only existing Frank Lloyd Wright-designed building in San Francisco.... it's kinda like the mini-Guggenheim.
via Life w/o Buildings — Architecture

The Unconventional Architecture of Terunobu Fujimori
"Japanese architect pays homage to the hut, history and a nature-filled way of life."
via LA Times — Architecture

Guggenheim Restoration Has the Wright Stuff
A look into the nearly completed multi-year repair and restoration of Frank Lloyd Wright's iconic Guggenheim Museum in New York City.
via Architectural Record — Architecture

October is First Architecture Month in Los Angeles
Lala-land gets a whole month dedicated to Architecture... I live here and I yet I had no idea until today.
via ID — Architecture

Gym’ll fix it
Another tight site in London goes underground for school expansion.
via Building Design — Architecture

Zumthor’s Cologne modern art museum
Zumthor may not fit the "starchitect" mold, but he is a rock star. In Cologne blends the ancient and modern with his signature exacting simplicity and inventiveness.
via Building Design — Architecture

Robin Boyd House to remain in public hands
The home of influential Australian architect Robin Boyd was taken off the market as it appears a deal has been reached to maintain the modernist masterpiece in the National Trust.
via The Age — Architecture

An Irish House Hides in Plain Sight
A modern cottage in western Ireland merges with the landscape. Designed by Irish architect Dominic Stevens for two artists.
via NY Times — Architecture

Interview: Neil Denari
Denari on his work, ideology, teaching, and pre-fab... and the interviewer manages to interview himself as well.
via Archinect — Architecture

Parkitecture
Atelier Bow-Wow's Hanamidori Cultural Center (2005) in Tokyo's Tachikawa City is part building, part landscape with it's undulating roof like a slice of the park lifted in place.
via Archidose — Architecture

Interview: Ada Louise Huxtable
The architectural historian and critic answers a few questions on criticism, inspiration, and process—using her thumbs.
via Metropolis — Architecture

A Prague stairwell’s DNA structure revealed
An impressive hanging stairway of stainless-steel and glass. [slideshow]
via Architectural Record — Architecture

Open House London
Modern and sustainable houses, built with budget and site constraints, were open as part of Open House London.
via Treehugger — Architecture

Limey
Photos of Lorcan O'Herlihy's Habitat 825 (previously mentioned in a Clip to a review in the LA Times) which is next door to the Shindler House.
via BLDGBLOG — Architecture

Sipping From a Utopian Well in the Desert
The NY Times visits Arcosanti, Paolo Soleri's "lean urban laboratory" in the Arizona desert.(See also Arcosanti, L+L 4/7/2005). [slideshow]
via NY Times — Architecture

Architect makes Scale Model of Housing Proposal in Lego
Designed by the Bjarke Ingels Group, this is a 1:50 scale model of Lego Towers, a proposed housing development for Copenhagen — made of Lego.
via Gizmodo — Architecture

For the dead
Four projects by Studio Elastico, architects based in Torino, Italy.
via Archidose — Architecture

Architectural Shifts, Global and Local
Starchitect designs around the world... ready go.
via NY Times — Architecture

Tree dimensional in New Zealand
Haha ha ha haaaaa... ahem. Newbie architect Chris Tate builds himself a Miesian treehouse near Auckland, New Zealand.
via Telegraph — Architecture

Adjaye’s new building at Rivington Place is an answer to his critics
"With an OBE and a place on last year’s Stirling shortlist David Adjaye has a level of fame that could be seen as disproportionate to his achievements. But his latest building, a base for two cultural organisations in east London, should help redress this imbalance." [images]
via Building Design — Architecture

Developers Unveil Plans for Trade Center Site
The Times talks about what Curbed is showing... see previous linkage to WTC enchilada for images.
via NY Times — Architecture

WTC Final Designs
Curbed served up the whole World Trade Center enchilada... including detailed renderings of Tower 2 by Norman Foster, Tower 3 by Richard Rogers, and Tower 4 by Fumihiko Maki. Follow the links! Follow follow follow follow...
via Curbed — Architecture

The Architecture Job Application
Hints & Suggestions from Employers for the architecture job seeker... nicely done.
via Archinect — Architecture

Kings Road Klutz
Christopher Hawthorne thinks that Lorcan O'Herlihy's new condo complex next door to the 1922 Schindler House swings and whiffs.
via LA Times — Architecture

Radical contectualists
"A new generation of European architects who are rejecting recent architecture’s ironic posturing in favour of something fundamentally contextual."
via Building Design — Architecture

Flooding the Farnsworth
The long dormant Pruned is back with a vengeance today... offering more pictures of the waters around Farnsworth House. Although I must take issue... the Farnsworth wasn't flooded, it safely floated above the water-level... a modern house on stilts in response to the flood prone site, no?
via Pruned — Architecture