Some of the most iconic buildings of the past century were the work of relative beginners - experience shouldn't count for everything. Telegraph View full entry
The Atlantic yards project can't get anymore money behind it especially with Barclay's taking name rights of the stadium. But the real news isn't the big development, it's big Frank hanging with Jay-Z and Bloomy. Does this make him forever the architect of bling? NYT View full entry
For 30th anniversary of Centre Pompidou Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers will rehash building's history. Event is taking place tomorrow January 20th @ 18:30 and will be broadcasted live here. View full entry
This weeks feature Eight is Enough is a conversational interview between chief editor John Jourden and West 8's Jerry van Eyck about the reassurance of landscape as planning, the work of WEST 8, and the New Orleans situation. View full entry
Controversial building work on Florence's famed Uffizi Gallery got under way this week following years of polemics. This first stage of work will double the Uffizi's exhibition space. The second stage will include construction of a loggia, designed by Japanese architect Arata Isozaki. ANSA.it |... View full entry
She’s out, she’s in. What’s going on up in Cambridge? Longtime landscape architecture professor Martha Schwartz withdraws her resignation. Still sees serious problems within the GSD. From the IHT View full entry
Phipps-Rose-Dattner-Grimshaw Selected to Develop City-Owned Site in South Bronx... New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) Commissioner Shaun Donovan and Mark Ginsberg, FAIA, 2004 President of New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIANY), today... View full entry
What constitutes an anchor business for redevelopment in the San Francisco Mission neighborhood? Well, apparently some residents don't think that Kink (NOT SAFE FOR WORK!) dot com will be a good neighbor... So, Porn purveyor seeks to reassure Mission...says the Examiner Who would have guessed... View full entry
Doug Aitken creates the super sitcom by projecting five short interconnected movies across the body of Taniguchi's minimial MoMa. NYMAG l KultureFlash l NYT View full entry
The naming of an architect to guide the reconstruction of Pilgrim Baptist Church marks a long-awaited sign of progress since fire ravaged the church a year ago. But it also raises vexing questions about the Near South Side landmark, designed by legendary Chicago architects Louis Sullivan and... View full entry
You are cordially invited to a celebration on Wednesday, January 24, honoring the winners of the 54th annual p/a awards. Come for cocktails, congratulate the winners, and be among the first to see the winning entries... Wednesday, January 24, 2007 8:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. Center for Architecture... View full entry
The Morning News has a great photo gallery of Japanese Love Hotels. Unlike the dank motels where Americans allegedly seek anonymous sex, Japan’s love hotels are playful and unapologetically sexual. Photographer Misty Keasler shows the humor, desire, and even the loneliness of these empty rooms. View full entry
Dublin's Clarence Hotel, owned by U2's Bono and the Edge, in partnership with property developer Paddy McKillen, is to be redeveloped at a cost of €150 million as "one of the most spectacular city hotels in Europe". The scheme, designed by international architects Foster and Partners, is to... View full entry
The value of projects planned or underway in the Gulf now exceeds $1trillion. The new 100 storey Al Sharq Tower designed by SOM has eight cylinders defined by a spiralling filigree structure and buyers will be allowed to customise their own individual floor plans. Cityscape | Space Odyssey 2010 View full entry
IS THE writing on the wall for the brickie? Engineers are racing to unveil the world’s first robot capable of building a house at the touch of a button. The first prototype — a watertight shell of a two-storey house built in 24 hours without a single builder on site — will be... View full entry