Our friends at Coudal Partners have put together a nice video/photo-documentary on Mies' IIT Crown Hall. Check it out. View full entry
David Dillon, Dallas Morning News, reviews the Nasher Center at Duke University by Viñoly (previously). Chris Hawthorn grades new schools in the LA area. View full entry
Las Vegas buildings seem forever either to be getting built or getting torn down, and few have ever been considered for any sort of architectural preservation. On the other hand, few are like La Concha motel, or at least the 1,000-square-foot lobby that remains. Designed by the architect Paul... View full entry
"New Orleans badly needs what one Dutch town already has: amphibious houses that float off their foundations in rising waters..." A tip from Arts & Letters Daily. View full entry
Ordupgaard Art Museum Denmark by Zaha Hadid review in the Guardian. | prev View full entry
Paul Andreu 's National Grand Theatre in Beijing has completed external construction, which consisted of 20,000 titanium plates and 1,200 pieces of glass. Now its interior decoration is under way and should be finished by April, 2007, a recent report said. Read 1 & 2 | Prev 1 & 2 View full entry
Home and atelier by Bow Wow; (photo- ) blogged under construction! Text in Japanese. via View full entry
The Japanese architect, Toyo Ito, is the winner of one of architecture's most prestigious prizes, the Royal Gold Medal. Jack Pringle, President of the RIBA made the announcement at today's meeting of the RIBA Council... Given in recognition of a lifetime’s work, the Royal Gold... View full entry
Artist Jenny Holzer has chosen to respond to 9/11 by projecting government documents and poems on the facades of five buildings for eleven nights. NY Times View full entry
Domus' Pyongyang Hotel Ideas competition certainly turned heads, especially Jan Kaplicky of Future Systems, who was "horrified, dismayed, indignant and, finally, saddened" by the feature in Domus 882 - brings on a debate between Stefano Boeri, editor of Domus and Kaplicky. via KF Ripped from... View full entry
Richard Rogers, the British architect who co-designed the Pompidou Center in Paris and designed the Millennium Dome in Greenwich, England, has been selected to design the long-awaited expansion of the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, an official involved in the selection process confirmed... View full entry
306090 is seeking submissions for #10 on Decoration; Monu is seeking submissions for #4 on Denied Urbanism. View full entry
After 4 years of construction, the addition for the Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid is complete. The project was inaugurated yesterday and tomorrow the 28th of September will have its first day of open doors to the general public. Links, Jean Nouvel, Museum Website View full entry
Director of the MAK Center for Art and Architecture Los Angeles at the Schindler House, also artist/architect Kimberli Meyer talks to LAist about the center and life in LA. View full entry
Cho Sung Yoon and his wife live on the 27th floor of a Samsung apartment complex here. They cook their food on a Samsung electric range. They call each other on Samsung cellphones and check their e-mail on a Samsung home computer. Recently, they used their Samsung credit card to get a 30%... View full entry