Oct. 13 (Bloomberg) -- NM Rothschild & Sons Ltd., the family- owned U.K. investment bank that has been based in the same London building since 1809, hired Rem Koolhaas to design new headquarters in the city. View full entry
I'd take one as a second home in New Mexico. How about you? NYT | Previously: 1; 2; 3 View full entry
Developers love Brooklyn. So are the old remnants of Brooklyn's waterfront history which are so much a part of its urban memory, a place for preservation or are marquee waterfronts better locations for development and urban regeneration? BrooklynRail View full entry
Crews with backhoes and bulldozers on Thursday demolished the Pennsylvania school house where 10 Amish girls were gunned down. Reuters View full entry
Alain de Botton appears on Talk of the Nation to talk about his book, and to give us the new old idea of designs psychological affects on human nature. related View full entry
On the adaptive reuse of grain elevators: "If we were to hear that some have been turned into urban lofts and offices, or even into a Midwestern palatial homestead for a Hollywood mogul that has grown tired of Montana ranches, we wouldn't be surprised. And if we see them converted into... View full entry
Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk has been awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature. a-f in discussions l Google News View full entry
From the once overstuffed and half-baked idea of McMansions comes a more earnest view of living in concert with the earth--the idea of extra petite housing. HOOK View full entry
The new addition to the Denver Art Museum captures all of the contradictions within Mr. Libeskind's oeuvre. Its bold, often mesmerizing forms reaffirm the originality of his talent, yet its tortured geometries make it a daunting place to install or view art ”” hardly a minor drawback... View full entry
A 4ft ice bust of Prime Minister Tony Blair's has been unveiled by environmental activists Stop Climate Chaos in Trafalgar Square. BBC View full entry
Last week in the Hague, the UN war crimes tribunal found former Bosnian Serb leader, Momcilo Krajisnik, guilty of crimes against humanity based partly on the evidence of an expert in Ottoman architecture. Eleanor Hall spoke with Dr Andras Riedlmayer, the Director of Islamic Architecture at... View full entry
The Art Institute of Chicago has announced the appointment of Zoë Ryan as the Neville Bryan Curator of Design. l The Storefront for Art and Architecture has confirmed they have made an offer for the position of director to Anselm Franke. ArchPaper View full entry
One month old ICON magazine leftovers Jurgen Bey's unexpected breeds of product design, Jean Nouvel's Guthrie Theatre--the conceptual crossroads of architecture, and breakfast at Ando's... View full entry
Visible Cities Architectural Performance Installation for the Party@the Center October the 12th 2006. Center For Architecture 536 LaGuardia Place New York, NY. Link View full entry
Graphic stills meet Architecture during Todaysart 2006. In the center of this open public space in The Hague, resides the white City Hall by Richard Meier. On September 21st and 22nd of this year, the façade functioned as a public space gallery for 10 of the world's finest graphic... View full entry