image the CLOUD ©www.raisethecloud.org
The cloud is a proposal for an Olympic monument in London for the 2012 games designed by a multidisciplinary team of leading architects, engineers and artists. Revealed on November 11 2009 The Cloud embodies a radically new type of Olympic structure and architecture; it is a lightweight, transparent, carbon neutral, versatile, live [...]

Location: Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Date: November 26 2009,
Time: 10AM-6PM
Curators: Juhani Pallasmaa, Paul Brislin and Tamara Horbacka
Tickets: £45, concessions available
Is there an architecture of resistance that stands in the face of commercial globalisation, that rejects the iconic image, that celebrates the sprit of [...]

L’Arca, international Magazine of Architecture, Design, and Visual Communication has opened up to ‘guest editors’. The publication will be dedicating 32 pages per month to a professional architect of their choice, offering them the freedom to write and illustrate their reflections and opinions on architecture, design and the built environment.
By offering the guest editors [...]

© Oliver Boberg, Large Slum 2, 2008, Computer drawing, 110 x 236cm. Courtesy of L.A. Galerie Lothar Albrecht
The L.A. Galerie Lothar in Frankfurt is currently hosting an exhibition entitled ‘CASE STUDIES’. The exhibition displays recent work developed by two of the gallery’s veteran artists, Peter Bialobrzeski and Oliver Boberg, on buildings in poor urban neighbourhoods [...]

Marcia Caines

Palais Des Festivals © Mipim 2009
In view of the financial crisis, the 20th MIPIM international property fair was inevitably different to past years. The annual 20 year-old event, a property sector institution based in Cannes that brings together thousands of delegates – architects, developers, agents and other property professionals – from all over the [...]