Here, is an update of the Israeli pavilion at Shanghai expo 2010 designed by architect Haim z. Dotan. (source designboom) Read more…

Shenzhen is a phenomenal city. Banham’s quip about LA – "a city seventy miles square but rarely seventy years deep" – is doubly true of Shenzhen: 150 square miles, but rarely 30 years deep. Yes, an instant city of 14 million people and thus, as I say, phenomenal. But it is also a city absolutely without charm. (source iconeye) Read more…

Inspired by insects, the Bug Dome is a small sheltered area used during the SZHK Biennale for underground bands, poetry reading, and discussions, and after the Biennale as an un-official gathering place for illegal workers from the Chinese countryside. (source archdaily) Read more…

Shanghai will showcase the city's "tolerance, energetic and innovation" in a shikumen-style building in China's joint-provincial pavilion at the World Expo 2010, the Expo organizer revealed today. (source Shanghai expo) Read more…

London studio drdharchitects are exhibiting a miniature city made of clay at the Shenzhen & Hong Kong bi-city Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture. (source dezeen) Read more…

Creative Directors shortlist 24 entries for the 'NOW + WHEN Australian Urbanism' exhibition at the 2010 Venice Biennale. Twenty-four teams have been shortlisted for inclusion in the Australian pavilion’s NOW + WHEN exhibition at the 2010 Venice Biennale. (source australian review) Read more…