Beginning January 4th, Gray Line New Orleans, will be leading visitors on bus led tours of the city, dubbed, "Hurricane Katrina Tour -- America's Worst Catastrophe!". For $35 a ticket out-of-towners will be driven around ghost towns and wasted neighborhoods to get up close and personal with... View full entry
What more can we say? Another fantastic year for architects! View full entry
Kultureflash unveils a Zaha Hadid entry for the Islamic wing at the Louvre, a competition won by Mario Bellini and Rudy Ricciotti. View full entry
Foster and Partners has been selected to design a new office complex development in downtown Calgary. The EnCana New Building Project will be headquarters to Canada's leading energy company, EnCana Corporation. archiseek | globeandmail View full entry
The good Lord has been chosen to design Tower 2. The "new 65-story tower would be named 200 Greenwich and contain 2.4 million square feet of office space, along with nearly 280,000 square feet of retail space." Architect's Newspaper. View full entry
Denver officials have just selected Steven Holl Architects to design the new courthouse and Hartman-Cox Architects to design the new jail. Denver Post View full entry
Beirut has re-emerged as a major field of experimentation in design trends and ideas in the Arab world. A look at a selection of young Lebanese architects reveals a plurality of design approaches, exhibiting a dynamism that results from the different educational schools, compounded by the... View full entry
Medit has submitted a series of construction shots of Richard Rogers' Plaça de Les Arenes in Barcelona. View in the Gallery View full entry
"The loft used to be a distinctly urban animal: empty downtown factories converted first into living spaces by struggling artists, then later into trendy up-market condos. But like many city dwellers, as it has matured, the loft has moved farther away from the hustle and bustle of downtown life... View full entry
Back by popular demand (well, actually demanded by only one person... but she seems popular), we've resurrected the Holiday Greeting Gallery. View full entry
Well, not exactly. But here's an image of his design for the new Leicester performing arts centre, which has been envisaged as being "turned inside-out”, so that all the elements of production will be exposed to full public view and use. View full entry
The location of Virgin Galactic's private spaceport has been announced, "wedged between a mountain ridge and a US army missile firing range." It will be designed by Philippe Starck. Guardian. View full entry
The RIBA-organized President's Medals for excellence in academia has announced it's 2005 winners. Part 1 | Part 2 | Dissertaton View full entry
Frame gets bored with huge glossy volumes of contemporary architecture and releases a new magazine promising to be a fresh source of info on emerging talents. But the spreads show Nouvel, HdM, and UnStudio... If nothing else it will feature the same adventeruous graphics of Frame. View full entry
Architectural Review Awards for Emerging Architecture 2005 announces 3 winners: Taira Nishizawa, Trahan Architects, and FNP Architekten. >complete list View full entry