As Hurricane Gustav roars toward New Orleans, all eyes are on the levees. When Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans three years ago, the failure of the levee system opened the ... Read More

Critics are having a field day with the decor Democrats gave INVESCO Field at Mile High. To prepare the stadium for the nomination acceptance speech by Democratic presidential candidate Barack ... Read More

When Barack Obama formally accepts his nomination as the Democratic candidate for president, he'll address an enormous audience. Instead of speaking at the Pepsi convention center in Denver, he'll head ... Read More

We'll be seeing a lot of Denver, Colorado this week as all eyes focus on the Democratic National Convention. But let's not keep architecture on the sidelines. Writing for the ... Read More

Frederick Law Olmsted must be spinning in his grave. Developers are nibbling away at Roland Park, Maryland, a historic suburban community designed by Olmsted's son and the Olmsted firm. First the ... Read More

Ever wondered what it's like to study architecture at a top university? The Sundance Channel has captured the drama and challenge in their new reality TV show, Architecture School. The ... Read More

Computers are revolutionizing the way we teach and learn. Will they also change the way we design our classrooms? Check out these wired schools...

Anyone can go back to school, thanks to free online architecture classes offered by big name universities. The courses run the gamut, from historic preservation to green design. This week ... Read More

No great project is the work of a single individual, and although we often talk about big names like I.M. Pei or Rem Koolhaas, we understand that their completed works ... Read More

Architects who designed new buildings for Beijing were faced with an interesting challenge: how to create powerful, iconic designs in a landscape that is often shrouded with smog. "Beijing seems to ... Read More

Deadly clashes between Russia and the breakaway republic of Georgia have put that vast land once again in the spotlight. The mounting tensions are taking place in a scene that ... Read More

Among the famous movie stars who act like architects is singer acress Barbra Streisand. With her actor husband James Brolin, Streisand traveled to New England to study the architecture of ... Read More

Beijing spent a mind-numbing $43 billion to redesign the City for the 2008 Summer Olympics, with gigantic and startling buildings by some of the world's most prominent architects. Now, as ... Read More

Blue, blue, my world is blue... or, at least, Paris is. This summer the City's most famous landmark, the Eiffel Tower, is lit up with the blue hues of the ... Read More