With all the sketchy development hoopla surrounding Coney Island, The NYC Dept. of City Planning reveals its own design for Coney Island. More local coverage:brownstoner.comcurbed.comkineticcarnival ...and don't forget Coney's own Yellow Submarine... View full entry
First she designed a ski jump for Innsbruck. Now the Austrian city has a Zaha Hadid mountain railway, to open next month. Our correspondent finds a futuristic funicular with stations like sculptures carved out of ice. Times Online View full entry
Christopher Hawthorne of the LA Times hangs out with our man Geoff Manaugh, and gives BldgBlog a big spread in this Sunday's paper. Congrats Geoff! View full entry
After the cracks at MIT Stata center and the cracks in the Eisenman's Berlin memorial, it is visible a big crack at the Tate. Fortunately, in this case, the crack is an installation, Doris Salcedo's "Shibboleth". A beautiful installation that gives the impression that an earthquake cracked the... View full entry
Norman Mailer, the combative, controversial and often outspoken novelist who loomed over American letters longer and larger than any writer of his generation, died today at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York. He was 84. NYT View full entry
Architects and town planners are to be recruited in the Government's drive against obesity. Staircases will need to be made more attractive and roads narrowed or even closed to discourage cars, under guidance to be sent to developers and authorities. Telegraph View full entry
New York’s New Museum of Contemporary Art has unveiled its first dedicated building, designed by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa’s practice SANAA. BDOnline | previously 1 | 2 | 3 | on flickr: set | tagged newmuseumPeter.Lep0psharlowMichael SurteesPeter.Le View full entry
Over the years, Schutte has been creating architectural models for imaginary buildings, several of which have now been built. His latest, "Model for a Hotel" is now on display on the plinth at Trafalgar Square... Schutte on architecture.... "I make these things," he says, "because I want to see... View full entry
The University of Notre Dame’s annual Driehaus Prize for Classical Architecture gets a buster shot of double capital, but does no money mean more prestige? via View full entry
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Academy Museum of Motion Pictures moved one step closer to reality with the announcement today that French architecture firm Atelier Christian de Portzamparc will design the project. LATimes l NYTimes View full entry
Inspired by Nature Imagined by Calatrava Building coming in 2011 Identity/Marketing available now View full entry
When it is designed by the Parisian firm R & Sie.. Their idea basically is to create a void..the house, and surround it with a plantation of trees which make the house invisible as they grow. Although technically the house would be built inside the void, the concept blurs the boundaries... View full entry
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has filed a negligence suit against world-renowned architect Frank Gehry, charging that flaws in his design of the $300 million Stata Center in Cambridge, one of the most celebrated works of architecture unveiled in years, caused leaks to spring, masonry... View full entry
How "Genius" Disfigured a Practical Art - more... View full entry
Condé Nast publications has just announced they will be ceasing publication (both on and offline) of their House & Garden magazine. I'm sure this is just the beginning of many traditional media folds. Silicon Alley Insider From Wikipedia - "Originally founded in 1901 a journal devoted... View full entry