Our friends at LA and Athens based design collaborative Drifting City are proud to announce that Dreamgrove, its web page and interactive garden project, has been nominated for Best NetArt Site in the 13th Annual Webby Awards. Hailed as the…

The American Institute of Architects, San Francisco chapter (AIA San Francisco) in partnership with California College of the Arts (CCA Architecture/URBANlab), HOK and Matarozzi/Pelsinger Builders present 10x10 Cities: Green Facts, Challenges, Futures on view April 17 – May 15, 2009 at 3A Gallery, San Francisco. 10x10 Cities: Green Facts,…

President Obama’s stimulus package has the country thinking “infrastructure” with a focus on urban environments and mass transit. Although these projects are not shovel ready, some students graduating from New York’s School of Visual Arts have designed transportation centers that enhance travel coast to coast.…

The exhibition In Situ: Architecture and Landscape draws from the rich collection of The Museum of Modern Art to examine the diverse attitudes towards landscape over the last 100 years. Featuring approximately 60 drawings, models, and videos, projects include single houses that frame the…

As reported the other day, six visions of the Smithsonian’s new National Museum of African American History and Culture will be on display from 2 p.m. Friday, March 27, through Friday, April 3, in the Smithsonian Institution Building (the Castle),…

Six visions of the Smithsonian’s new National Museum of African American History and Culture will be on display from 2 p.m. Friday, March 27, through Friday, April 3, in the Smithsonian Institution Building (the Castle), Washington, DC. The exhibition features design…

On September 17, 2007, French President Nicolas Sarkozy marked the inauguration of “La Cité de l’architecture & du patrimoine”, the visionary plan for a new ‘Grand Paris’, by stating his wish for international consultation on a “new comprehensive development project for Greater Paris” which would bring together the professional expertise…

What do the Big Brother logo, a school, Heathrow Terminal 5 Live Adverts and Obama’s campaign logo have in common? They are all on the shortlist for the Brit Insurance Design Awards. Following the tremendous success of their inaugural…

“Urban China: Informal Cities” is a multifaceted exploration and physical manifestation of the groundbreaking magazine Urban China. Founded in 2005, Urban China is the only magazine devoted to issues of urbanism published in and about China. In addition to offices in Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou, the magazine has a network…

Organized by the San Francisco Museum of Art (SFMOMA) and Henry Urbach, SFMOMA’s Helen Hilton Raiser Curator of Architecture and Design, the exhibition is unorthodox in that it combines two approaches to showing architecture in a gallery: video documentation of the studio’s built work and an environment,…