via StraitsTimes.com - The fourth publicly-funded university will take in as many as 2,500 students a year and offer three main disciplines: engineering, design and business. It will take an interdisciplinary approach to teaching, for instance, combining engineering and design or ...

THE ART NEWSPAPER - Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron are at it again, with their proven brand of sensitive but effective museum-architecture that includes the Tate Modern in London and the de Young Museum ...

The Architectural Association is organising a number of Visiting Schools in Asia this 2008 season.

Suppose the noun “architecture” could be banned from daily use starting now and “playing” took its place. As preposterous as this hypothetical might seem, try to “go with the flow” for a moment. And “going with the flow” ...

Its the classic story of the widening gap between the rich and poor, this time in the booming economy of India. Well, booming for some, but as the New York Times' Somini Sengupta puts it, very much squalid for many others. With two parallel universes literally existing side by side, she uncovers a unique, ironic and sad phenomenon that is being perpetuated in cities like Gurgaon, India.

“It is really a quintessential Singapore experience to live in one of those grand old houses surrounded by nature,” Mrs. Pickering said. “You can live in a condominium anywhere, but these houses are really unique.”

News and Images from The Australian and New Yorker Magazine "THE Chinese Government is coming under unusual pressure from the public and construction experts to consider a ...

via Building.co.uk, by Alex Smith Plans for emirate will see population triple to 3m over next 22 years Animated film showing Abu Dhabi plan...

Image and Text by Wired Magazine Now listen up. So maybe you think green architecture is the future of the planet. But architects aren't alone in the fight for earth's ...

Links, Image and Text from BDonline and Archinect Peter Eisenman, the American architect known as one of the New York Five, and famously responsible for the hotly debated projects of the Wexner Centre and House IV, has broken his silence on the subject of computers and their effect on Architecture and architectural education. BDonline and Archinect report.