On a hillside overlooking the Mediterranean at Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France (near Monaco), Eileen Gray’s E-1027 house was built to share with her lover, Romanian architect and critic Jean Badovici. The name of the house sounds impersonal, but it is in fact a numeric code for their joint initials.

Narrated by Dustin Hoffman, VISUAL ACOUSTICS celebrates the life and career of Julius Shulman, the world’s greatest architectural photographer, whose images brought modern architecture to the American mainstream.

The first Park(ing) Day was launched by Rebar in 2005, right here in San Francisco. Watch our latest Streetfilm to see how San Francisco re-purposed parking spots during Friday's Park(ing) Day. Just imagine if bike parking and expanded outdoor café seating took over our automobile-filled public spaces every day. (Courtesy: Streetfilms.org)

 

Viginia Tech's Lumenhaus is a zero energy home. It produces all the energy it consumes from the sun.

High-profile architect, Daniel Libeskind, 63, has designed a 5,500-square foot, two-story home, or as it being marketed, The Daniel Libeskind Villa. Libeskinds's signature design vocabulary of bold angular, thrusting forms is found through out this design. Clearly, he rejects the rectilinear shapes common to a lot of modern prefab residential design. Except for a commission for a private home in Connecticut, this project represents Mr. Libeskind's only second attempt at residential home design.

Smart grid technology startup, Tendril, has secured a third round capital injection of $30 million

from VantagePoint Venture Partners and Good Energies. The company plans to expand its hardware and software systems and develop additional partnerships with uitlities and appliances makers.
 

Director Leslie Cockburn gets to the crux of the matter, eliciting candid revelations from defectors from Bear Stearns and Standard & Poor's and other high-level players in the subprime mortgage gamble.

Sales of new and existing homes are picking up month over month, and prices may soon follow. But the crosscurrent is whether unemployment will continue to rise, says USC real-estate economist Delores Conway.

KB Home reported a narrower loss in the first quarter and a 26% rise in net orders.

The Federal Reserve controls the economy by setting interest rates. But after the crash of 2008, Bernanke invoked emergency powers,and with unprecedented aggressiveness has thrown a trillion dollars at the housing and financial crisis.