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One of the few copies of the House of Better Days is exposed until late September at the Galerie Patrick Seguin (Paris, 11th). Commissioned after the winter 54 by Father Pierre Jean Prouvé, it is revealed as a manifesto in favor of industrialization…

Explore a global timelapse of our planet, constructed from Landsat satellite imagery. This timelapse from 1999 to 2011 captures the rapid growth of Las Vegas, Nevada, the fastest growing city in the United States over the past two decades., full_html

Our favorite cartoonish, Klaus Toons, opened a small exhibition at the Architecture Foundation in London. For the latest event in the Three Little Worlds programme, Jimenez Lai's Cartoonish Metropolis host an exhibition of comic work by celebrated…

Saturday's musical video. , full_html

Holidays, August close, so here's our photo of the week courtesy of Peter Fretterman Gallery. , full_html

Here are the first images of the London 2012 Olympic Cauldron, unveiled at the opening ceremony of the games, yesterday. The Olympic torch was brought to the stadium along the Thames in a speedboat by David Beckham, who then passed it to five-time…

Applied Works has created a web-based tool for energy supplier EDF, which will monitor and visualise energy use across key London 2012 Olympic sites. , full_html

Located in the small Catalan town of Santpedor, the Sant Francesc convent has been rescued from the ruin with an interesting intervention by the architect…

A virtual reality, quite real. A short futuristic film by Eran May-raz and Daniel Lazo. This is their graduation project from Bezaleal academy of arts. , full_html

It is not being a good year for architects in Madrid. With great sadness I report the death of Dario Gazapo, in Madrid, director of the Department of Architectural Design at the School of Architecture, UPM, where he also directed the Master of…