Okay, last post about Eastern Block projects for a while, I promise. Slice der Republik is an interesting little website about a student project to re-use the Palast der Republik, with a Gordon Matta-Clark-inspired cutting that would do two...

Mr. Nicolai Ourousoff leads an informative tour of the dynamics of architecture and development in Moscow. The article is particularly illuminating in describing the causes of the destruction of much of the buildings built by the Soviets in the...

The folks at Brand Avenue have done a little more digging on the Palast der Republik, that gimongous building in East Berlin that opened in 1976 to house the East German parliament and a totally coked out disco scene....

Title: LIC In Context: An Unorthodox Guide to Long Island City Author: Paul Parkhill and Katherine Gray Publication Date: 2005 Publisher: Furnace Press, Brooklyn, New York ISBN: 0-9772742-0-9 Continuing with our month-long theme of Your Hidden City, we came...

Land+Living has an extensive piece on Detroit Demolition Disneyland, an Anonymous group who has begun covering abandoned structures in gallons of orange paint. The great thing about the action taken on these buildings is that is allows us to...

This weekend Zaha Hadid was announced as the winner of a competition for the new library at Universidad de Sevilla. After losing the gold lego competition and yet another Opera House, I'm sure they are jumping with joy at...

The New York Times spreads word about a second company to enter the race for space-luxury travel, as if it's something to celebrate. A spaceport will be built in the United Arab Emirates. This, of course, is to compete...

Treehugger has posted an article about this project by Elizabeth Demar called the "Hand Up Project". Demar, with the help of a paleontologist, a mechanical engineer, Auto-cad, and a laser cutter has created a small plastic shell for hermit...

Omotesando Hills, the Tadao Ando-designed shopping mall/old folks home complex, opened this week. Two reviews have popped up that are of interest. The first, from the New York Times', er, shopping critic, seems to think it's a quiet respite...

If you are still attached to your computer tonight at 7:00 PST, click over to SCI-arc live. SCI_arc's lecture series is now being broadcast in real time over the web every week. SCI_arc's lectures run a wide swath of...

One of the admirable qualities of New Yorkers is that they aren't afraid to look outlandish, ambitious, aggressive, or foolish to get ahead. Unfortunately, this is sometimes played out at such a large scale, with such poor taste and...

Arcspace has a a little article about the recently opened D-tower, a collaboration between NOX and artist Q.S Serafijn. The Tower displays the emotions of of the inhabitants of Doetinchem via a questionnaire, and the rest of the world...

The Office for Metropolitan Architecture is coming full circle with its Museum Plaza skyscraper in Louisville, Kentucky. You can read the local news report, some fascinating OMA archive recycleing analysis, and a link to some great process models and...

After a week of very subtle buildup, Tropolism is pleased to announce the first open-sourced architectural contest, Your Hidden City. The contest is simple: post your photos (with a caption) to our public Flickr pool (or email them to...

From the 'Don't Fully Get It But Your Under-25-Y.O. Readers Totally Will' Department: a basic programming language called Processing, created to aid in visual representations of information. It is created to teach fundamentals of computer programming within a visual...

We here at Tropolism tend to avoid following the crowd. Perhaps it's the aura of Coolhunting, our publisher's website, or perhaps it's the vindication we received by not seeing Dances With Wolves when everyone else was raving about it....

Tropolism is happy to announce its own Flickr pool. This is a forum for Tropolism readers to share their corners of the city. The pool is public, so simply click "Join This Group" on this page, after setting up...

The LA Times is reporting on another park opening in Los Angeles this past weekend. The scale is minute compared to the great park in Orange County, but the shift in thinking is gigantic. Los Angeles is cutting a...

In preparation for Friday's announcement, Tropolism presents the Toronto Psychogeography Society Blog. Students of Situationists will remember that Guy Debord coined the term psychogeography: effects of environment and geography on emotions and behavior. We've always loved the attempt to...

One of Diller Scofidio + Renfro's renderings is taking shape in the northern burgh called Boston. The new ICA building is on the Boston Harbor waterfront and scheduled to open in September 2006. Bonus: the cantelever looks exactly the...

Joining the ranks of the interior-designer-branded residences in New York--Phillipe Starck-designed apartments in Lower Manhattan, and the Peter Marino's "prêt-à-porter" residences uptown (that should totally be "prêt-à-habiter")--are fashion-designer-branded residences. While we agree with the comments warning that this is...

Contractors will be erecting protective scaffolding on Section 1 of the High Line, from Gansevoort Street to 20th Street this month. No date is given. This, from the Friends of The High Line press release, for the twenty seven...