"At the end of the decade, Chicago's bustling commercial high-rise building market will reach a pinnacle with two 'supertall' towers springing up along the city's riverfront." ENR. Earlier. View full entry
Bookforum reviews Michael Sorkin's Against the Wall: Israel's Barrier to Peace and Gershom Gorenberg's The Accidental Empire: Israel and the Birth of the Settlements, 1967-1977. | also: Richard Rogers: An American Inquisition? the nation | previously View full entry
Three "drab" libraries in the UK are getting an upgrade - with better books and brighter colors. Guardian. View full entry
Will Alsop has sold the rights to his architecture firm to SMC Group for £1.8 million. Aslop will retain creative control. bd View full entry
Sydney design team Phillip Thallis, Paul Berkemeier and Jane Irwin win East Darling Harbour competition. Read View full entry
"Iranian Ben Sarjhi has been photographing the architecture of his homeland for many years." See the results, in a slideshow at the BBC. View full entry
"Expensive buildings cost more" A parody web site for the faux firm Architects Associates, who "design massive spaces that serves no purpose what-so-ever. ..[and] with lots of glass and exotic materials because it makes them practically impossible to engineer." View full entry
More news on the Moscow skyscraper by Foster and Partners. "MOSCOW's mayor has endorsed plans to build a tower, 600 metres high, designed by the British architect Lord Foster of Thames Bank. It is expected to be the tallest in Europe when it is completed in 2010." Times (w/ section) | thanks Reg! View full entry
The results are in, though only available through the university website. The competition website isn't updated yet... Link View full entry
Yelena Melnikova has dropped her claim to half of the 1920's Constructivist landmark. After 20m years of conflict its is now set to become a museum in honor of Konstantin Melnikov. Moscow Times View full entry
A stunning shortlist for the Toronto Waterfront: 1. Foster and Partners; 2. Stan Allen + WW; 3. TWBT + Lapena-Torres; 4. West 8; 5. Snøhetta + Sasaki + nArchitects + Weisz+Yoes + H3 + Balmori. | globemail View full entry
J.G. Ballard explores the desolate beaches of WWII Normandy and the Modernist ruins of Hitler's Atlantic wall, a "chain of fortifications that ran from the French coast all the way to Denmark and Norway... as indifferent to time as the pyramids... pockmarked by the shellfire of the attacking... View full entry
The Institute Without Boundaries launches its next research project called the World House Project. (Apps due April 28.) View full entry
The architecturally significant Soto-Michigan Jewish Community Center, the focal point of Jewish social and political communal life in Boyle Heights from the 1920s to the late 1950s, has disappeared under the wrecking ball. Via LA Observed. View full entry
Like a growing number of decisions involving landmark designations, [the choice to raze the Purchase Building] came in the wake of a stormy dispute. At the hearing, Adrian Benepe, the city's parks commissioner, deemed the Purchase Building "a substantial barrier" to the Brooklyn park, a... View full entry