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Toyota Prefab
rom the Wall Street Journal: In the last year, Toyota Home, as Toyota’s housing division is known, launched an aggressive advertising campaign to make more consumers aware of the brand, opened...
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Storm Sewer System, Saitama, Japan
From Arch Daily, some great videos of the storm sewer system of Saitama, Japan. Official website here.
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From Mao to Wow: Postcards from the Future
Accompanying the Vanity Fair article by Kurt Andersen, Vanity Fair online has a slideshow of CCTV, the Bird’s Nest, Aquatic Center, Linked Hybrid, the new airport, and the National Center for the...
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North Korea’s “Hotel of Doom”
Once dubbed by Esquire magazine as “the worst building in the history of mankind,” the 105-story Ryugyong Hotel is back under construction after a 16-year lull in the capital of one of the world’s most...
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Beijing cleans up its act for the Olympics
Workers in Beijing carry plants to the waterfront next to the Bird's Nest. And its people and streets and pets and food and pirated DVDs…. Price: $43,000,000,000 (US) When no-smoking ban went into...
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Starchitects city building
Zaha Hadid's master plan for the Kartal area of Istanbul, with the Sea of Marmara visible at the top. From the Wall Street Journal: “We are seeing an emergence of a new industry,” says Dennis...
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Future of the Bird’s Nest
From China Daily: After the Games, the stadium will be redeveloped to include hotels, restaurants, supermarkets and shopping malls, he said. The reconstruction will cost at least 300 million yuan and...
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“only an idiot would have said no”
Jacques Herzog on choosing to build in China: Only an idiot — and not a person who thinks in moral terms would have turned down this opportunity — would have said no. I know that there are architects...
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Albert Speer Jr helped design the master plan for Beijing Olympics
Albert Speer Jr "Bird's Nest" National Stadium, Herzog de Meuron Albert Speer Jr, an architect and urban planner like his father, helped design the master plan for Beijing’s Olympics. He was tasked...
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