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Winners at this years World Architecture Festival

Mapungubwe Interpretation Cente Johannesburg, South Africa                   Peter Rich Architects

Mapungubwe Interpretation Centre is sited at the confluence of the Limpopo and Shashe Rivers. The Mapungubwe National Park celebrates the site of an ancient civilization... more Festival

Understanding the amount of carbon that is tied up in buildings, exploring new materials and discouraging home ownership are three ways that archi- tects can help ameliorate... more

 

Barcelona's brightest             think in new ways

For Cecilia Tham and Maria Solé Bra- vo of Barcelona-based CO:DE collec- tive design, creative thinking should be about much more than just pro- ducing a predetermined object such as a building. They are keen to col- laborate with people from other dis- ciplines, and to shift from product ori-

ented design to process oriented. The collaboration–they are keen to stress that they're not a practice or a school but a platform and interface for crea- tive thinking is, they say, to shift from product oriented design to process o- riented. They showed examples that others have produced that illustrate the approach CO:DE intend to take. Including some writings by a member of Oulipo, the literary movement in- spired by Georges Perec... more

GreenBuild 2009            Something For Everyone

Last week Coachella Valley Green joined approx. 28,000 other people at GreenBuild 2009 in Phoenix, Arizona to hear the latest green news, learn from some of the best sustainable e- ducators and discover the most in- novate environmental products in the world.  GreenBuild is the U.S. Green Building Council’s... more Examiner

Keynote Speaker Al Gore           Performance by Sheryl Crow

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Of Interest

Callison Named Design Firm of the Year 2009


Harvey Nichols, Indonesia

For the second year run- ning, leading retail design firm Callison has been na- med Design Firm of the Year 2009 by Display and Design Ideas (DDI) maga- zine. Paula Stafford, Calli- son executive Vice Presi- dent, was also named a 09' Retail... more Callison

Visionary New Book from Richard Saul Wurman

Described by Fortune mag- azine as an "intellectual he- donist" with a "hummingbird mind," Richard Saul Wur- man has been shaped by an epiphany he had as a young man: Embracing his ignor- ance would lead him to understanding. Driven by a passion to understand and to convey... more DI Net

Rating the Top                US Architecture Schools

Architecture school can be alot of fun. It's radically dif- ferent from anything else in the academy, and does not simply consist of years of tedious lectures. Every two years we rate the world's architecture schools on the research performance. Re- sults for our 2009 survey of the research performance of the American... more

Best Landscape Architecture Projects

The American Society of Landscape Architects an- nounced the winners of its 2009 Professional Awards. The jury considered nearly 600 entries it was the lar- gest number in ASLA his- tory from around the world and selected forty... more


Changi Airport Terminal 3 Interior Landscape, Singapore