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Why Can't the World's Best Architects Build Better Web Sites?

I'd love to write about your latest architectural masterpiece, I really would. If only your Web site wasn't such an information architecture disaster.READ»

The British Hate Our New London-Embassy Design

By contrast, they thought that a competing design, by Thom Mayne/Morphosis, was "touched by genius."READ»

It’s On: A Critic Says L.A. Is Now Architecture’s Leading Light. A Brooklyn Designer Says No Way

Could this be the architecture equivalent of Tupac versus Biggie? Last Sunday Nicolai Ouroussoff, the architecture critic for The New York Times, published an essay (“As Heroes Disappear, the City Nees More”) lamenting the 1970s ...READ»

The 10 Most Creative People in Architecture

Which architects have the most unusual, influential visions for the field?READ»

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Which State Has the Boldest Architecture?

Quick: Which state has the boldest architecture? Ohio didn't roll of your tongue, did it? But Bowling Green State University, near Toledo, just broke ground on a new building by Snøhetta. And that's on top of a slew of other ...READ»

Pritzker Prize - the Nobel of Architecture - Goes to Peter Zumthor

Today, architecture's highest award, the Pritzker Prize, was announced--and you've probably never heard of the the man who won, Peter Zumthor. He prefers it that way. He doesn't have a Web site. He frequently refuses ...READ»

Los Angeles and Mass Transit? Designers Can Dream

Los Angeles has had dalliances with various mass-transit ideas the way Jennifer Aniston has relationships with other celebrities: They seem perfect until the heartbreak starts. So we're both excited and nervous with the ...READ»

Enough With the Scary Architecture Already!

We scan thousands of headlines each day, and read hundreds of blog posts. And what keeps coming up is that contemporary architecture is very often terrifying. Not just vaguely sinister. But straight-up Darth Vader-would-love-this, ...READ»