One of Africa's leading architects, Abdul Haq Khandwalla, is helping a Yorkshire businesswoman Suzanne Mehmet, to rebuild a tumbledown school for Aids orphans in Kenya. Read | related View full entry
Libeskind showed preliminary plans on wednesday to a developer for 2 residential towers and a larger retail development spanning seven blocks in the Bottle District, which would be one of if not the most mondo condo Danny has done yet. St. Louis Biz Journal | prev View full entry
The stats blink off the charts for OMA's Seattle Library at its one year milestone. The building has seen its fair share of wear and tear. Most of the building's shortcomings, according to this article in the Seattle Times, are attributed to the library's own overwhelming success. View full entry
The Scottish Design Awards will be handed out on Friday, May 27. The Scottish Parliament (imgs) is nominated in three categories, and winning could bring some sense of closure to the drawn-out battles over its construction. read: Hooray for Hoolyrod. Lately, the building also won Spain's Premio... View full entry
Somkhele, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa ”” Siyathemba Consultants, the Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies and Architecture for Humanity are pleased to announce that Swee Hong Ng is the winner of the “Siyathemba,” design competition. PITTSBURGH ARCHITECT... View full entry
A row house undergoing renovations in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, collapsed yesterday in a cascade of bricks, cinder blocks, mortar and scaffolding. NYT View full entry
Alianz arena opens. Check these two galleries: sueddeutsche zeitung | manfred-paul.de View full entry
They are the who's who of technical innovation ”” the 10 leading minds whose breakthroughs have transformed British architecture. Amanda Birch and Vikki Miller lured them out of their workshops and into the spotlight for this six-page Innovators special spread in bd online. View full entry
Curbed has info about the partially-demolished OddJob building in Manhattan. The Landmark's Commission set a great precedent by giving the de facto thumbs up to the owner for strategically demolishing parts of the building when news came of impending landmark procedures. Another Lapidus work was... View full entry
Some of the most spectacular Master Works of Modern Architecture from around the country have been immortalized today on U.S. postage stamps. The U.S. Postal Service commemorates them with these glossy thumbnail pics for your envelope beautification. Read View full entry
The Lower Manhattan Development Corporation (LMDC) presented Snøhetta's schematic designs for the cultural center to be built at the World Trade Center site today at an 11 a.m. press conference at downtown's Museum of Jewish Heritage. Full details of the announcement will appear on... View full entry
The Louis Berger Group CEO Predicts Industry Evolution at BST Global IT Forum, From Capitol Reports View full entry
bubblehouse for sale, 3 mil | software that visualizes frequencies and relationships between locations in gnews | another google spinoff: gmaps + crime stats in chicago | Ambient social networking interface | william carpenter's lightroom | Walmart on flickr (boxtank) | Mahdi Ayat's iRAN Project... View full entry
In case you are missing it, today's episode of the WTC/Lower Manhattan/Donald Trump/Daniel Libeskind Soap Opera is getting recapped realtime in this discussion. No time for words? CNNthumbnail image by Jan Op De Beeck View full entry
"Architectural exhibitions tend to assume a number of guises; they can be exhibition work, utilizing drawings, and models of built or proposed projects. Or interventions into a given space or situation used to investigate and challenge. The latter being articulated as built installations that... View full entry