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• Academy of Art University introduces the School of Landscape Architecture.
• Kaohsiung Port Station Urban Design competiton.
• Stockholm Design Week 2011 video.
• Barbican announces major OMA Exhibition.
• Increasing Architects’ Credibility report.
• Vallecas Public Housing by Estudio.Entresitio video.
• The indicator: The Next Architecture, part 3.
• Creative Energy at The Green Building video.
• SCI-Arc Lecture featuring Mohamed Sharif.
• Interview with Brit Insurance Design of the Year Winners.
• Designing Tomorrow: America’s World’s Fairs of the 1930s.
• Crane.tv interviews Tetsuo Kondo.
• Download the Ventura Lambrate Map and Guide.
• Dezeentalks at [D3] Design Talents: Harry Thaler, AKKA, Hanna Emelie Ernsting, Shay Alkalay, Stefan Diez, Mathias Hahn, Mark Braun, Axel Hildebrand and Marco Susani.
• Eco-City Symposium at the University of Washington.
• BIG wins the Stockholmsporten Master Plan.
• Norman Foster recreates Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion Car.
• Opening of the skyscraper New York by Gehry.
• Henning Larsen Architects and Healing Architecture video.
• Interview with Max Fraser at Joy of Living.
• London 2012 Olympic Games Information Pavilion competition.
• Ljubljana City Museum by OFIS Arhitekti video.
• RIBA reports Growing Confidence Amongst Practices.
• Interview with Alejandro Aravena.
• UK architects must Pay Minimum Wage for Student Placements.
• Tips on Being Affordable and Green.
• The indicator: The Next Architecture, part 4.
• 15 of the World’s Most Stunning and Coolest Skyscrapers.
• Ilhavo City Library by ARX video.
• MOCA expansion awarded to Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects.
• Karim Rashid to lecture at the University of Pennsylvania.
• Architecture tour of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Guggenheim Museum.

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• Architectural Record Announces Winners of 2011 Good Design is Good Business Award.
• Design Meets Fashion in Stockholm.
• Skyscraper Craze Rages On and Climb Ever Higher.
• The indicator: The Next Architecture part 1.
• Le Dauphin by OMA video.
• Foster + Partners win bid for West Kowloon Cultural District.
• Le Corbusier Homme de Lettres book.
• Will Architects Exist in 2025? report by RIBA.
• 2011 TED Prize Winner JR talks about his inside out project.
• University of Pennsylvania School of Design 2011 Spring Lecture Series.
• Europan 2011 in Norway competition.
• 26LAB, a life enrichment program and learning lab.
• Winners 2011 Skyscraper Competition.
• Material Beyond Materials, a Composite Tectonics Conference.
• Interview with Max Fraser of The Joy of Living.
• MVRDV will design Caen’s port refurbishment.
• Marcel Breuer and Postwar America exhibition.
• Milan preview: Promisedesign 2011.
• Seismic Architecture, learning from the Japan experience.

• 5th International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam.
• Street Furniture Competition 2011.
• Tower 2.0 App by Daniel Tellman.
• Rethinking our Landscapes with Kate Orff.
• Columbia College Chicago Media Production Center video.
• Call for submission: AZ Awards for Design Excellence.
• Winner of Minneapolis Riverfront Design Competition.
• O House by Hideyuki Nakayama Architecture video.
• Low Energy Building Design for new projects and retrofits video.
• Best of British Design Award Highlights.
• 2 (or 3) questions about emotional design for Rochus Jacob.
• Träullit Hexagon Panels by Form Us With Love.
• Vertical Gardens by Michael Hellgren.
• Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Spring 2011 lecture series.
• Boston Treepods Projects by nflux studio.
• Toronto Design Week 2011: Capacity.
• SOM awarded commission for Green Tech City in Vietnam.
• Kent State CAED 2011 spring lecture series.
• Department of Unusual Certainties awarded.
• Natura in Architecture with Michael Pawlyn video.
• Heatherwick to design Olympic Cauldron for 2012 games.
• College of Fellows for the American Institute of Architects announced for 2011.
• Interview with Winy Maas of MVRDV on Balancing Barn.
• Star architects implore Mayor of London to Save Design for London.
• Danish Design School Students making furniture video.
• 60th Anniversary of the Stockholm Furniture Fair.
• Dezeen podcast: Stephen Bayley on Design of the Year 2011.
• Structures fo Inclusion Conference in Chicago.
• London 2012 Olympic Velodrome is now complete.
• Exhibition for the 2011 Brisbane Ideas Competition.
• AD Interviews Eugene Kohn & William Pedersen from KPF.
• BarberOsgerby to design Olympic Torch.

• Zerofootprint is now welcoming nominations for the 2011 Re-Skinning Awards.
• The A+D Mueum in Los Angeles presents SOUPERgreen Exhibition.
• DownTown Miami 2011 Competition to design a Floating Stage.
• 2 (or 3) questions for Inga Sempé.
• 15 of the Worlds Coolest Office Spaces.
• Tortona Design Week announced.
• AIA announces 104 New Fellows, six honorary fellows.
• White House proposes New Green Buildings Program.
• Center for Achitecture in NY presents First Exhibition in the US on Contemporary Indian Urbanis.
• Q & A with Matin Brudnizki.
• Jugaad Urbanism: Resourceful Strategies for Indian Cities.
• Video of the Winners of the [D3] Design Talents.
• Columbia University hosts Building Intelligence Project.
• Jewish Community Center Mainz by Manuel Herz Architects.
• Connecting Dutch Designers in Milan.
• 2011 Burnham Prize Competition to examine the McCormick Place.
• Architizer and DuPont announce competition to Redesign Pushkinsky Cinema.
• AD Interviews Mark Sexton from Krueck & Sexton.
• Parisian residents halt Frank Gehry’s building.
• Thinking Architecture… in c. 25 BC.
• 15 of the World’s Most Beautiful Bridges.
• BIG wins the competition to design Greenland’s New National Gallery.
• West Ham United win bid to take over 2012 Olympic Stadium.

• Maison & Objet 2011 Part 1 and Part 2.
• Philippe Starck talks about his makeover of the Royal Monceau Hotel.
• Louis I. Kahn Exhibition Opens at the Italian Cultural Institute.
• 15 of the World’s Coolest Swimming Pools.
• 2 (or 3…) questions about American design for Jacob Marks.
• Projects by Nouvel and Gerhy finally moving forward.
• 2010 Around the World by Iwan Baan.
• Patricia Urquiola lecture at Luminaire.
• There will be No Creative Director for DAE.
• Miami Beach SoundScape/Lincoln Park by West 8.
• BIG wins International Competition to design a new waste-to-energy plant.
• Call for submission to design a Tree House for a Tropical Island Resort.
• Architizer launches Second Annual Competition Competition 2011.
• The indicator: China Before Architecture.

• 2 (or 3…) questions for Robert Brunner.
• Architecture critic of the Financial Times interviews Rem Koolhaas.
• Former Nokia CEO to lead World Design Capital Helsinki 2012 committee.
• AIA Honor Awards 2011.
• Video of the Musealization of the Archaelogical.
• AIANY Design Awards 2011 call for submission.
• AD interviews Thomas Phifer.
• Solar Decathlon moved from the National Mall.
• 1st and 2nd prize winners of Atlantic City Boardwalk Holocaust Memorial.
• Patricia Urquiola presents Emotional Austerity.
• Possibility of Guggenheim Museum in Finland to the explored.
• AD interiviews Richard Meier.

Spread the Ashes of the Colors Installation

• Robert A.M. Stern wins the Driehaus Prize.
• Interview with Wang Shu of Amateur Architecture Studio.
• Interview with professor of urbanism Witold Rybczynski.
• Orgatec 2010 Interviews by Architonic.
• AD interviews Craig Konyk of kOnyk Architecture.
• Will We Ever Get Out of This Hole? report.
• Video tour through Frank Lloys Wright’s Taliesin West.
• Barcelona Botanical Garden by Carlos Ferrater video.
• A guide To Become an Architect (mostly for women).
• Ole Scheeren splits from Rem Koolhaas and sets up his own firm.
• eCloud Sculpture at San Jose International Airport video.
• Studio visit video with Ron Arad.
• How Much do Architects Earn Per Hour? research.
• AD interviews Peter Bohlin of Bohlin Cywinski Jackson.
• 8th OISTAT Theatre Architecture Competition.
• AD interviews Weiss Manfredi.
• Frank Gehry’s Beekman Tower preview video.
• The Architecture Foundation presents Critical Infrastructures.
• REX/OMA’s Wyly Theatre wins AIA Honor Award.
• Sustainism Is the New Modernism book review.
• Steven Holl Architects‘ Horizontal Skycraper wins AIA Honor Award.

• Helsinki Design Lab Stuio talks about sustainability.
• Robert A.M. Sterns wins Driehaus Prize.
• Interview with Hani Rashid from Asymptote Architecture.
• FIGMENT, ENYA & SEAoNY launch design competition.
• Cognitive Cities Conference in Berlin.
• Food an Design videos with Gitta Gschwendtner.
• James Dyson to be appointed as Provost of the Royal Collage of Art.
• Hybrid Prototypes intensive design and prototyping workshop.
• Winner os the Rosa Barba European Landscape Prize 2010.

Avalanche by Daniel Arsham

• The 10 Best Works of Architecture in 2010.
• Paulo Mendes da Rocha video interview.
• Video of winner of the Équerre d’Argent.
• Norman Foster to design new Apple campus.
• Phillipe Starck talks about dining room’s evolution.
• House in Vila Romana by MMBB Arquitetos video.
• VernissageTV at Design Miami 2010.
• Droog makes surprising move to Las Vegas.
• DawnTown Architecture Competition winners announced.
• SESC Pompéia by Lina Bo Bardi video.
• The Future of Architectural Visualization? video.
• MVRDV completes “Le Monolithe” in Lyon.
• AutoCAD WS for iPad to edit, view and share dwg files.

Picture from this year’s National Geographic Photography Contest

• Q & A with Peter Pfau of Pfau Long Archtecture.
• TDW 2010: Quench Your Designer Thirst video.
• OMA’s Shohei Shigematsu lectures in Quebec.
• Photos of Manny by Stéphane Chalmeau video.
• TDW 2010: JAPAIN… From Spain to Japan! video.
• V&A announce shortlisted architects for Exhibition Road Extension.
• Zayed National Museum by Foster + Partners.
• Interview with Moritz Küng director of Canòdrom.
• Presentation Tips for architects, part II.
• Kengo Kuma on CCCloud video.
• Green Building Thrives in shaky economy.
• Q & A with Confetti System.
• HLW Celebrates 125 Years.
• Villa in Darvishabad video.