New York's New Architecture District from today's times - the healthy hive at 147 Essex. View full entry
Temporarily adding a nomadic landmass to archipelago New York, Robert Smithson's long-unrealized plan for an artificial island (a towed barge planted with trees and plants) to partially circumnavigate Manhattan will be posthumously realized next month: "The project, budgeted at around $... View full entry
Gehry likes it, helps buy it: Frank "the broker" clinches the real estate deal on Chicago's classic Inland Steel Building. And Blair Kamin pulls back the curtain to see how. AKA 30 W. Monroe, it's an SOM original and perhaps soon to go by another name as the landlords shop for a new main tenant... View full entry
Newsday's real estate reporter explores some new urban parasites: "Homes have sprouted up on the rooftops of drab Manhattan buildings; homes such as solid Dutch Colonials and capes, sleek chalets, modern Decos, and even log cabins. Some stand out, while others blend in architecturally with the... View full entry
David Adjaye and the Nobel Peace Centre in Norway's capital, Oslo, featured in Gabion. | via dezain View full entry
Martha Thorne, associate curator of architecture at the Art Institute Chicago has been named Pritzker Architecture Prize Director. SunTimes View full entry
So much to read, so little time. Another scoopage of articles on the fronts of global urbanism. MappingMapping urban densities and energy: How can we build higher-density, more efficient, and still attractively livable cities without triggering either the LA "infill density" problem or the SF... View full entry
Arqa.com retransmits a newspaper interview with Eisenman and shows some recent work. I suspect some of the construction shots are from the Santiago de Compostela project but I'm not sure. If anyone would like to comment and confirm please do. View full entry
NEW YORK CITY is feverish with construction, from high-rises on the sedately residential Upper West Side to new towers designed by Frank Gehry proposed for Brooklyn. But with the city's pace of development showing no signs of slowing, community groups remain silent on one consequence of the... View full entry
If you want "Mediterranean ambience" in "an upscale moviegoing experience for the masses," along with some monkfish and high-tech escalators, then you're in luck: movie chains are redesigning multiplexes into film palaces - again. Back to the future... These "theaters are huge and, melding the... View full entry
So Steve Wynn, as we know, "boasts that [his new hotel on the Vegas Strip] is the most complex structure ever built. Yes, ever." So he gives *Wired* magazine an architectural and infrastructural backstage tour to explain why... The article's author does emphasize "the mere feat of building the... View full entry
Results in the International Ideas compy for the Seoul Performing Arts Center. via | prev View full entry
The Modern Architecture in East Africa around Independence conference closed on July 29, capping also a series of workshops with students on the theme. "Whilst the conference was focused on the modern heritage and the possible connection with the colonial and post-colonial political developments... View full entry
Coop Himmelb(l)au's expanison of the Akron Art Museum (under construction) is up for an American Architecture Award along with 33 other projects. ArtDaily View full entry
Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron to design the new home for the Parrish Art Museum in Southampton. Todd Eberle photos at SFMOMA. Ofili's Upper Room scandal at the Tate. ARTNET View full entry