The Frank O. Gehry building responsible for the “Bilbao Effect” – ie one great building can boost an entire city’s economy.
A government website celebrating Antoni Gaudi’s 150th birthday.
“The Buckminster Fuller Institute is dedicated to accelerating the development and deployment of solutions which radically advance human well being and the health of our planet’s ecosystems.”
Lucia Eames’ gallery extends, “the legacy and work of Charles and Ray Eames.”
The SLQ’s entrance page to its Architecture collection – little appears to be online.
The National Design Centre is the only major, public centre in Australia dedicated exclusively to design across all its disciplines.
An architectural writer at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (a what??) maintains this meaty blog about Manhattan and architectural theory and history.
a U.S. blog on, “cities, architecture, the ‘new urbanism,’ real estate, historic preservation, urban design, land use law, landscape, transport etc etc from a mildly libertarian stance.”
A blog beaming out of San Francisco. It’s very well maintained.
A blogazine that attempts to bring you the newest of the new before anyone else does.
Marcus Trimble’s follow-up to Gravestmor, keepin Sydney covered. This site also features the work of his practice.
Lucio Costa’s presentation in 1957 of his hastily assembled plan for Brasilia, with pics.
“It was not my intention to enter the competition, and as a matter of fact I am not doing so – I am merely passing on a possible solution which was not sought but, so to speak, took shape almost spontaneously.”
The architecture department at the AIC often has good exhibitions as well as a siginificant archive, much of which is scanned and online.
Gordon Bunshaft (SOM) and Oscar Niemeyer both won the Pritzker Prize in 1988, two years before Bunshaft’s death. The Pritzker page has links to some photos and to Bunshaft’s rather short acceptance speech.
Rate your office building or tenancy’s environmental impact with this handy tool.
120,000 or so community-constructed pages about architects and their biuldings. The site is sponsored by Architecture Week.
The Casa Luis Barragán is in Mexico City.