OMA Designs Latvia's Museum of Contemporary Art. Along with the recent Shenzen stock exchange competition victory, the Koolhaasian/Miesian exploration continues. From ArtDaily> RIGA, LATVIA.-The Latvian Ministry of Culture announced plans to move forward with its first museum of contemporary... View full entry
The artists who bemoaned SoHo’s gradual reinvention as a tourist mecca in the 1980s would have been dumbstruck by the pace of gentrification wrought by the High Line, an abandoned stretch of elevated railway tracks that will be transformed into a garden walkway from the meatpacking district... View full entry
Decoration was back on the agenda, as architects flagged up the old in the new, writes Ellis Woodman. Daily Telegraph View full entry
According to dezeen, OMA wins in the design of the Shenzhen Stock Exchange tower. Read | full court press is on in the discussion View full entry
Sheldon Fox, founding partner of Kohn Pedersen Fox has died age 76. | archpapr View full entry
Storefront for Art and Architecture in NYC has announced the appointment of Joseph Grima as its new Director. Grima leaves Domus for the post. | archpapr View full entry
Architect Magazine and Architect Online present awards for the best residential architecture as picked by a special jury. Rockhill and Associates, Studio 804, Roger Sherman and others. We're proud of our very own Ali Jeevanjee, who took home one of these as part of Leisner Trigas Jeevanjee. View full entry
Maya Lin ’s Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington has been chosen by the American Institute of Architects to receive its 2007 AIA Twenty-Five Year Award. NYT View full entry
A conglomeration of New York forces -- the City's "professional urbanist" class, most of whom are at least functionally New Urbanist; NIMBYists; the most Big-Developer-coddling City Hall and City Council in recent memory; and, of course, the Big Developers themselves -- have created in New York a... View full entry
The CS Monitor reports on the Vauban development: "Germany's best-known environmentally friendly neighborhood." - "2,000 new homes on a former military base 10 minutes by bike from the heart of Freiburg," which has "put into practice many ideas that were once dismissed as eco-fantasy but which... View full entry
"High-security 'safe rooms' should be created in the homes of all domestic violence victims who want them," MSN UK reports. "So-called 'sanctuaries' with alarms, CCTV cameras, mortise locks, smoke alarms, security lights and reinforced doors and windows have already proved successful in some... View full entry
While Mayne explains his soft and sensous design for Paris' tallest office building - the Phare Tower - as part of a natural evolution of his work, critics wonder if he's lost his edge. But still aimed to provoke, "I’m institutionalizing my studio and building a sophistication,” he... View full entry
BusinessWeek offers a list of standouts from 2006. | bizwk View full entry
The London Array, the world's largest offshore windfarm, consisting of 341 turbines located 12 miles off the shore of south-east England, has received government approval. Guardian | Engineer View full entry
WESTPORT, Conn. — At the end of a road lined with freshly minted, oversize colonial-style homes surrounded by carefully tended lawns is a jarring sight: an unusual 1970s house with shredded strips of its tar roof and quartz-covered walls torn away and spread about the yard....In this... View full entry