
Arts - Architecture - General


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The Fat Channel
- Brings you architecture, fine art, and urban speculations. Architecture for the Airbag Generation.
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Monolithic Dome Institute
- Provides information on building reinforced concrete domes as earthquake, tornado and hurricane resistant housing, churches and storage. Workshops and conferences, gallery of examples, faq and news.
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Archibot
- Architecture portal and meta search engine powered by Mamma. Includes select list of online resources, forum and news headlines from around the net.
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The Architecture Hate Page
- Vote for the most hated project and submit your own choice. Forum for fury about bad architecture. This unusual site is the brain-child of architects in the Netherlands, but the hate is international.
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Design4Design
- Online resource centre for professionals in the architecture and interior design industries. News, events, features and listings.
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The Virtual Study Tour
- The New Zealand School of Architecture presents computer models of a selection of buildings ancient, modern and proposed, including a sustainable eco-house.
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Archinform
- International architectural database with over 8000 built and unbuilt projects. 20th-century architecture is the main theme.
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Underground Buildings: Architecture and Environment
- An exploration of the viability of underground buildings in contemporary America, with some discussion of international examples.
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Godden Structural Engineering Slide Library
- Collection of 900 engineering slides from around the world. Historic and modern structures: beams, arches, cable and suspension, domes and shells, columns, frames, grids, slabs and trusses.
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Architecture for Humanity
- A volunteer non-profit organization set up to promote architecture and design to seek solutions to global social and humanitarian crisis.
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Design Community
- This architecture and design web portal provides forums for public communication on world architecture, sustainable design, 3D design and 3D computer graphics.
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Archiseek
- An architecture directory by the team who created Archeire, with the bonuses of planning news, architectural competition announcements, some European city guides and forums.
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Archinet
- Internet service for architects and the construction industry. News, building reviews, competitions, jobs.
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World Architecture
- Aims to promote regional diversity. Devised by the Tepe Architectural Culture Center, Turkey, it carries articles, an invitation to contribute and architectural links arranged by country.
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Probert Encyclopaedia: Architecture
- An illustrated a-z of architectural styles and terminology.
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Architecturecafe
- An international architecture portal available in six languages. News, listings and links to institutions, organizations, firms, events and competitions.
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Floornature
- Interviews with architects, news, flooring projects with man made tiles. Manufacturing process, environmental impact and international standards for ceramic tiles and man made stones.
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The Holistic Architecture Net
- Promotes built environments that are harmonious with their environment. Introduces Feng Shui, Platonic forms, sacred geometry, sustainability and Vedic building. Links to related sites.
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The International Network for Multiple Space Use
- A variety of mutiple space use-projects from all over the world within an international project database, information about the association and related links.
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New 7 Wonders
- This project and voting booth to select the new seven wonders of the world also gives condensed, illustrated descriptions of the original ancient wonders.
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Talkin' About Architecture
- A Yahoo group to express opinions or ask questions about architecture and art. Registration required.