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UK architects' boycott of Prince Charles fizzles

There were no empty seats in the Royal Institute of British Architects auditorium Tuesday night as a planned boycott of Prince Charles' speech fizzled.

Architects to Prince Charles: We're staying home

A respectful audience, polite applause, and congratulatory cocktails at the inevitable reception. That's what's expected when Prince Charles gives a speech.

Architects create American-style suburbs overseas

Architect Andy Feola keeps running into Southern California colleagues in some of the world's most exotic locations — from the Egyptian desert to China to Azerbaijan.

Olympic Bird's Nest architects design NY high-rise

The Swiss architects of the iconic Bird's Nest stadium at the Beijing Olympics are bringing their innovative style to New York City with a translucent glass skyscraper designed to look like houses stacked in the sky.

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Las Vegas' new CityCenter, a big gamble, prepares to open
Source: USA Today

LAS VEGAS — Some of the world's top architects and designers have taken a fresh deck of cards and created a Xanadu on the Las Vegas Strip.

A House Not for Mere Mortals
Source: The New York Times

THE house is off-limits to children, and adults are asked to sign a waiver when they enter. The main concern is the concrete floor, which rises and falls like the surface of a vast, bumpy chocolate chip cookie.

Astrohome
Source: The New York Times

Few architects today have the finesse of Ben van Berkel. Working with his partner, Caroline Bos, the 50-year-old Amsterdam native has become one of a handful of designers whose approach, driven by a fascination with new computer-age technologies, has a touch of the prophetic.

Galactic Suite space hotel open by 2012
Source: Australian News Network

"Galactic Suite", the first hotel planned in space, expects to open for business in 2012 and would allow guests to travel around the world in 80 minutes.

Pecha Kucha: Design Virus
Source: Wired News

From the article: Pecha kucha -- pronounced pet-shah coot-shah -- is an onomatopoeic Japanese phrase meaning "the sound of casual chatter."

New housing ''failing future generations''
Source: The Age

POOR planning, indifferent design and cost-cutting in Melbourne''s newest suburbs are condemning residents to a a life of misery, Melbourne''s top planners and architects say.

Wrap House wins the RIBA Stephen Lawrence Prize
Source: Blacknet UK

Wrap House, an origami-roofed extension to an Edwardian house in London by Alison Brooks Architects, has won the Stephen Lawrence Prize sponsored by the Marco Goldschmied Foundation.

South Africa finds it own sophisticated architectural style
Source: news.monstersandcritics.com

Descriptions such as thoughtful, sensible, simple, modest but dignified are being applied to new building structures as a distinctly sophisticated South African architectural style is being seen to take root.

Miami Is All About Its Celebrity Architects - New York Times
Source: The New York Times

MIAMI — Just when it seemed that the traditional Miami aesthetic had made a national comeback — with Art Deco, Art Moderne and space-age-style motifs re-entering the vocabulary of so many developers — a new chapter has opened for this city's architecture.

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