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• Metous Studio presentation on Barrio de los Paracaidistas video.
• New designs embrace a Japanese Tradition.
• 2010 Metropolis Next Generation design competition.
• Tokyo Designers Week 2010 video.
• Juhani Pallasmaa interview video trailer.
• Normal Foster to deliver his inaugural lecture as Humanitas Visiting Professor of Architecture at the University of Oxford.
• Nathalie de Vries from MVRDV interview.
• Turn every surface into a canvas with IdeaPaint.
• Design dilemma: What to Do When You Can’t Paint.
• The Llove Hotel, Frame, Petcha Ketcha and Super Deluxe video.
• 2 or 3 questions for Daphna Isaacs & Laurens Manders.
• Winners of the 2010 Aga Khan Award for Architecture.
• Surreal architectural art installation by ROSO.
• Light Shower installation at Salisbury Cathedral.
• Sanaa Installation at the Barcelona Pavilion.
• 100 videos about Home Improvement.

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• Kengo Kuma chosen for V&A Museum in Scotland.
• OMA makes inroads France with Caen Library.
• Building and Maintaining Networks: strategies and tools.
• Patricia Ready Gallery video trailer.
• TDW 2010: Cool designs come alive.
• Glass Tile Roof makes simple solar energy.
• 30 Square Meter House in Japan.
• The Story of Eames Furniture.
• Kaohsiung Maritime Cultural and Popular Music Center competititon.
• Architects’ Optimism Increasing according to RIBA.
• Presentation Tips for architects.
• Taiwan Tower competition winner.
• Buckmister Fuller Dome for sale.
• Kumikolnu Boutique movie.
• Il Girasole the rotating modernist house.

• RIBA warns against Prince’s Foundation Design Review Bid.
• Valencia Design Week & Feed 2010 – The best of Nude! video.
• Winners of the 2010 Australian National Architecture Awards.
• Architect Rem Koolhaas sets his sights on the East.
• Shanghai Expo 2010 draws to a close.
• Interview with Shigeru Ban by Martha Thorne.
• Foster’s Faustino Winery Opens in Spain.
• Rem Koolhaas, architecture’s man of the year video.
• Top 12 Impressive Atriums from around the world.
• About Daan Roosegaarde’s new book Interactive Landscapes.
• Landscape design by french architects Oglo + PPil.
• Train crossing Brookling Bridge Film From 1899.
• Lladró, Designers Studios And Paella during Feed video.
• Alfredo Jaar interview trailer.
• Massive Attack concert visuals.
• Vienna Design Week 2010 video.
• Tokyo Design Week 2010 – Teaser in a Typhoon! video.
• 2011 RIBA Norman Foster Travelling Scholarships open for entries.
• Frank Gehry to speak at Pratt Institute on architecture and beauty.
• 15 story Ark Hotel built in 6 days video.
• Interview with Alberto Cruz.
• Los Angeles announces call for entries for Arch is Competition.
• Park Ruggeveld by Maxwan wins flemish spatial planning prize.

Here is a long, long, long list of links. Enjoy!

• 7 questing with star architect Steven Holl.
• Tom Dixon, and when design meets fashion!
• Interview with Rem Koolhass at Venice Biennale.
• CBS sunday morning video with Jean Nouvel.
• Konstantin Grcic to receive Designer of the Year Award.
• Autodesk AutoCAD for Mac video tutorials.
• Vimeo Festival+Awards at the IAC building by Frank Gehry.
• Brompton Design District video.
• Jardin del Pornevir video by Cristobal Palma.
• Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust opens.
• A Biennial of Creative Video at the Guggenheim Museum.
• Bjarke Ingels receives the European Prize for Architecture.
• Arik Levy to be guest of honor at Stockholm Furniture Fair.
• AD interviews Philip Enquist from SOM.
• Volta School by Miller & Maranta video.
• The Brochstein Pavilion at Rice University video.
• Jean Philippe Vassal inverview.
• Exactly How Many Architects in the U.S. Are Unenployed? report.
• Rem Koolhaas interviewed by DutchDFA.
• Lunch with Todd Bracher.
• 5 Workspaces from famous designers.
• The Forty Part Motet at 12th Architecture Biennale video.

Illustration by Paul Rogers

• Dutch Design Week 2010 preview.
• Nordic Pavilion by Sverre Fehn video.
• A hot day with Christian Zuzunaga at Kvadrat and cool night with Lee Broom.
• Garden Pavilion by Office KGDVS + Bas Princen video.
• Dezeen podcast: Stefan Sagmeister at Vienna Design Week.
• New student category for Restaurant & Bar Design Awards.
• Autodesk AutoCAD for Mac now available.
• Architects’ profession remains in difficult territory.
• The Grass Roofs of Norway.
• Alejandro Aravena interview.

Photo by Juliane Eirich from the Korea Diary series

• A+D Museum presents a Stephen Kanner Retrospective.
• Calatrava’s Museum of Tomorrow to showcase a greener future in Rio.
• Iwan Baan to receive the Julius Shulman Photography Award.
• Rem Koolhaas will speak at EU-China Cultural Forum.
• David Chipperfield to receive the Royal Gold Medal for architecture.
• Braille Blueprints for blind architects.

• Studio Banana TV presents Madinat Al Zahra by Nieto Sobejano Architects.
• London Design Festival Guides for you iPhone.
• 1999 Interview with Alvaro Siza.
• The “new intimacy” space created by Microcosmes.
• 2 or 3 questions for Fairtrade Designers.
• Autoban and their House Hotel.
• London Design Festival here we come!
• RIBA Stirling Prize 2010 shortlist.
• John Pawson at London Design Museum.
• Antoine Predock’s CLA Building may be demolish.
• Arch-Vision reports “European architects divided on future construction industry”.
• Yoshiharu Tsukamotofrom Atelier Bow-Wow interview.
• Design dilemma: Preparing Your Home for Fall.
• More London Design Festival at the Victoria & Albert Museum.
• 2 or 3 questions for Aric Chen.
• New impressions flooring with Moooi & Senso & Marcel Wanders.
• ADEPT wins Danish Landscape Award 2010.

• Studio Banana TV features Gas Natural Tower in Barcelona.
• Photos of the Venice Biennale Part 1 and Part 2.
• 5 building nominated for the 4th International Highrise Award.
• An intimate chat with Phillipe Starck.
• 2 or 3 questions for Black+Blum.
• Interview with designer Scott Wilson.
• Moriyama House by Office of Ryue Nishizawa video.

American Ruins

• Steven Holl wins 2010 Jenck Award.
• Bjarke Ingels talks about his teaching position.
• Interview with Renny Remakers of Droog.
• Design dilemma: Embracing Slouchy Furniture.
• Modern Decorative Concrete Tiles by Daniel Ogassian.
• Interview with Designer of the Year Jaime Hayon.
• Architecture Week schedule announced.
• 10 incredible Parking Garage Designs.
• Exploring HALL 7 during Maison & Objet 2010.
• Thomas Demand Interview.
• The Colisseum is On Fire Installation.
• OMA wins competition for New Library in Caen.
• Jaime Hayon’s Moving Ideas at Maison & Objet.

Vacant NL Installation

• LEGO Architecture by Adam Reed Tucker.
• Paup Mendes da Rocha interview.
• 4 incredible Buildings Made of Bottles.
• Alessi’s exhibition Objects and Projects.
• Origami Stair by Bell Phillips.
• 12th International Architecture Exhibition Venice.
• 2 or 3 questions for Trove.
• Belzunce-Mauriño-García Millán interviews.
• Inside the Herman Miller Headquarters.
• 2 or 3 questions for Premrudee Leehacharoenkul.
• The Venice Architectural Biennale 2010 on your iPhone/iPad.
• Little Big Berlin film by Pilpop.
• Volkswagen Amazing Car Towers.
• Design Dilemma: Changing the Color of Your Wood Floor.
• Golden Lion Award winners announced.
• Autodesk AutoCAD for Mac OSX in October.
• Dezeentalks at [D3] Design Talks: Marco Dessí, Gabrielle Ammann, GamFratesi, Benjamin Hubert, Kai Linke and Reinhard Dienes.
• Dune Wall Treatment by UrbanProduct.