when exhibition becomes inhibition

Robert Campbell, architectural critic for the Globe, writes about how a recent exhibition at Harvard University's Gund Hall manages to address everything about ...

Mayne warns Dubai set for ‘ecological disaster’

Pritzker Prize winner blames a lack of control by city’s political class Pritzker Prize winner Thom Mayne has predicted that Dubai will become an “ecological ...

New supertall commissions announced by Smith and Gill for Dubai, including mega-towers, worth $15 billion

Against a backdrop of nose-diving world markets, it sounds like a comic book fantasy: Three closely-bunched, mega-skyscrapers would shoot in the sky, connected by skybridges ...

Correa, Maki Tapped to Design Aga Khan Center

By Alex Bozikovic - One of the world’s great architecture patrons has hired two distinguished architects—the Indian Modernist Charles ...

TED.com / Liz Diller: ‘Architecture is a special effects machine’

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ARCHIFEST 08: Fringe Events

ArchiFest Exhibition 6 – 24 Oct 08 . 10am – 9 pm daily (with 24 Oct closing at 6pm) . The Plaza, National Library A collection of ...

What makes the perfect art gallery?

On the eve of the opening of the new Saatchi Gallery, Observer architecture critic and ex-director of the Design Museum looks at the continuing appeal ...

Dharavi: India’s Model Slum

Mumbai, India's Dharavi is one of the world's biggest slums -- and its most notorious. Look beyond the stereotype, however, and you'll find a successful ...

RIBA moves into Hong Kong, Singapore and the Gulf

by Dan Stewart, Building.co.uk - The RIBA is to launch three overseas chapters in response to a rise in expatriate membership. The institute will set up ...

2009 Metropolis Next Generation® Design Competition Challenges Designers to Fix Our Energy Addiction

Metropolis magazine challenges young designers to apply their innovative talents to our energy addiction and rethink the broken models that represented 20th-century life and ...