The project looks at how an architectural machine can create an architectural time based event. (via An Architectural Time Machine by Architect Heechan Park)

A Seattle firm, HyBrid Architecture, has used shipping containers to build cargotecture one-room cabins and multistory office parks. (via Forget Big-Box Stores. How About A Big-Box House?)

An OMA-designed temporary pavilion at the Cannes Film Festival was inaugurated today with a screening of Kanye West’s debut short film Cruel Summer. The pavilion, with a design led by Shohei Shigematsu, is a raised pyramid containing a seven-screen cinema invented by West’s creative team, Donda. (via Kanye West’s seven-screen pavilion, designed by OMA, unveiled at Cannes Film Festival)

(via Yabao Hi-Tech Enterprises Headquarter Park, Futian District, Shenzhen / China by 10 Design)

The building boom in the Middle East– spearheaded in large part by Western design firms–is the latest chapter in that region’s centuries-old struggle between its cultural identity and its utopian dreams. (via Cities of the Imagination)

Richard Florida speaks with Alan Ehrenhalt about the subject of his new book, The Great Inversion and the Future of the American City: the reversal of the last century’s great shift in people and economic activity to the suburbs (via How and Why American Cities Are Coming Back)

Interventions in the entrance hall of Prague National Gallery and Salm and Schwarzenberg palaces, situated in Hradcanske Square. (via Prague National Gallery Entrance Hall by MATEO ARQUITECTURA)

Open International Design Competition for Transforming Cities with Innovation (via ONE Prize 2012: BLIGHT TO MIGHT)

Following an international competition, Foster Partners, working with museum designer Adrien Gardere, is designing a new museum for Roman artefacts in the city of Narbonne, southern France. (via Foster Partners to design Musée de la Romanitée Narbonne in Southern France)