A federal judge ruled yesterday that there were enough similarities between David M. Childs's 2003 design for the Freedom Tower at the World Trade Center site and a 1999 student architectural project that a lawsuit against Mr. Childs for copyright violation could proceed. Richard Meier goes to... View full entry
OMA hired to build a multiuse tower, possibly with 26 floors or more, on Louisville's riverfront. It's all part of a $70 million project that three Louisville investors plan to build next to the Muhammad Ali Center. read , furthermore... View full entry
University of Cambridge archaeologists are joining forces with Czech colleagues to study the world's first houses, sometimes built from mammoth bones, in Southern Moravia. University of Cambridge Press Office View full entry
The fate of Edward Durell Stone's Two Columbus Circle may be uncertain, but one of the architect's early works, the 1939 A. Conger Goodyear House in Old Westbury, N.Y., has become a success story. Read | prev View full entry
Charlie Rose will interview David Childs tonight. View full entry
Channel 4's series Demolition proposes to find Britain's most-hated building and have it knocked down. This is dangerous ground, writes Jonathan Glancey. The Guardian View full entry
The Prince of Wales has resumed his diatribe against postwar architecture by condemning cheap and 'ideological' urban redevelopment and reiterating his desire to see new 'human-scale' homes. The Guardian View full entry
Monu magazine has dedicated it's third issue to the topic of 'Political Urbanism', with a bunch of good reads. Check it out. Also, here is another collection of articles relative to the topic in different contexts. Military UrbanismPentagon's footprint impacts the world. Perceptions ride on... View full entry
The Venice Biennale has decided to dedicate the theme of the 10th International Architecture Exhibition to meta-cities. The exhibition, centered on the transformations of cities and territories on the planet, which will be directed by Richard Burdett (UK), professor of architecture and city... View full entry
A current and a former commissioner at the NYC Preservation Commission dispute a recent NYTimes ($) editorial that held there was a unanimous professional judgement against a public hearing on 2 Columbus Circle (E.D. Stone's). And David Dunlap has more on the ruckus. via View full entry
Steven Holl Architects selected to rebuild, restore, and transform the Albert Place Casino (designed in 1930 by the Belgian modernist architect Leon Stynen). The competition-winning design was inspired by the Rene Magritte mural, “The Ship Which Tells the Story to the Mermaid,”... View full entry
The commodification of the name brand architecture keeps on trucking with a new article in the Sun Herald on the Bilbao effect and Gehry's Midas Touch... View full entry
McLaren's racy headquarters in Woking is tipped as a dark horse to win the Stirling prize for architecture. Times of London View full entry
Five International finalists have been chosen for the redevelopment of the 22-hectare site at East Darling Harbor. The finalists include Peddle Thorp Walker/EDAW, Hargreaves Associates/Morphosis, Hill Thalis Architecture/Paul Berkemeier/Jane Irwin, Lippmann Associates/Richard Rogers/Martha... View full entry
The San Jose Mercury News offers a bunch of coverage on the new building which features a glass dome 4' larger than the one on the US capitol. Article about Meier | slideshow View full entry