The Michael Lee-Chin Crystal, the ROM's steel and glass addition that has won more acclaim internationally than at home, has been picked as one of the seven new wonders of the architecture world by Conde Nast Traveler. National Post | Other treasures with pics after the jump...Thomas Payne... View full entry

la Bêka and Louise Lemoine have shot another movie, following one on Richard Meier's Church in Rome and another on the H&deM winery, they look at the Koolhaas/OMA house in Bordeaux. The house was designed for for a man after he was bound to a wheelchair after a near-fatal car-accident... View full entry

I love seeing cities develop strategies to improve the safety and desirability of cycling as an alternative form of transportation. A couple recent noteworthy examples: Tempe, AZ is adopting a common European practice of completely covering the bike lanes with red paint, as reported by... View full entry

It took the jury led by Peter Zumthor two days to decide how to distribute 240.000 dollar among the four winners. Zaha came third, Bernaskoni (who?) and Velerio Olgiati (pardon me?) had a photo finish. ArchitectenwebBernaskoniValerio Olgiati View full entry

Tishman Speyer edged out three other development teams to win the fierce competition to develop the Hudson Rail Yards, the 26-acre site on Manhattan’s far West side that is envisioned as an extension of midtown’s business district. Crain's via Curbed | Design Team: Murphy/Jahn + PWP +... View full entry

"We need to start thinking about food production being part of a city's infrastructure - like roads." Architect Andre Viljoen on an urban agricultural spatial planning project in The Guardian. More on the project here. View full entry

Is April Fool's Day coming early this year? If not, my theory is that UPS dropped the model in transit and tried to fix it themselves.The Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2008 will give London the first example of Frank Gehry’s spectacular architecture. The highly articulated structure – designed... View full entry

A new Backstory feature is online! This time the focus is on Baltimore, contributed by Archinect member Fred Scharmen, AKA sevensixfive. Backstory is an ongoing feature curated by Bryan Boyer, focusing on personal relationships with buildings or, as in the case of this episode, cities.BackStory... View full entry

Banker John Allison gives $28M to 27 colleges with a simple clause. Ayn Rands "Atlas Shrugged" will be required reading. In other news, Schools of Architecture given $12.95 to make 'The Fountainhead' a requirement. more View full entry

happy easter to my chriistian friends. we must respect to others' beliefs as long as they don't impose some trash sorting rules on us, on top of the sanitary dept., and please take it with sense of humor coming from a 1% sufi 99% rock n roll like me. let's pick on the news; to iPhone users... View full entry

The Office of the Provost has named four finalists in the search for dean of the College of Architecture. Interim Dean and Professor Doug Allen was named to the post after Dean Tom Galloway died in March 2007... Candidates for the position are Alan Balfour from Renssalaer Polytechnic Institute... View full entry

Ourossoff comments on the eruption of luxury residential towers already constructed or being designed by the profession’s most celebrated luminaries. NYT View full entry

Bill McDonough attended Richard Bransons Carribean Necker Island getaway to brain storm about economic opportunities in climate change. Tony blair and others were there.William McDonough, the designer, showed renderings of recent planned projects: a building in Abu Dhabi with solar panels built... View full entry

NYtimes reports on the arrest of Jose D. Vargas for perjury about properly inspecting building renovations that he was self certifying that later collapsed and killed a fire fighter. NYC allows architects and engineers to act as their own building inspectors and zoning reviews, creating a system... View full entry

Outstaged by the olympic games, there are just 100 days to go until the start of Expo Zaragoza 2008 – the International Exposition with the theme of “Water and Sustainable Development”. There are ground breaking buildings of all sorts including a bridge by Zaha Hadid. Concept... View full entry