NYTimes reports that developer Christopher T. Carley plans to announce the $500 million project on Tuesday. The structure, tentatively called the Fordham Spire (but not according to Caltrava's wife), has immediately raised security concerns. A spire on top would reach about 2,000 feet, making the... View full entry
To celebrate the 1000th comment on the strangely popular discussion thread Hi all you fancy graphic lovers we are initiating a for-fun t-shirt design competition. Winner will receive $100 and 5 t-shirts (or $150 and 1 shirt) with their winning design... (brief) Submissions are due by Wednesday... View full entry
What will London look like with another £100bn-worth of new buildings? Glancey visits the New London Architecture gallery that reveals all - The Guardian | Sudjic (Observer) | FT | (Prev) View full entry
The newest edition of the Archvoices newsletter: "Other Business; Architects on Alternative Paths." Take a look. View full entry
Dallas/Forth Worth's new 2-million square foot International Terminal D opened its doors today Saturday, July 23rd. "One of the most interesting elements of International Terminal D is the artwork that appears both inside and outside of security" 4 articles to read: DFW website / Dallas arts... View full entry
The Istanbul Architecture Festival is morphing into the International Istanbul Architecture Biennale. The event, which will be the first architecture biennale of Turkey, will be held in Istanbul between the dates 3-30 April 2006. This year's festival "Water and Asphalt" which is curated by Ihsan... View full entry
Students from black and ethnic minority backgrounds are less likely to go into the building and architecture business than their white counterparts, according to new research carried out by Royal Holloway, University of London. The Guardian View full entry
Eleftheria Square in the old centre of Nicosia, Cyprus will be redesigned and landscaped by Zaha Hadid. Read | Images (via BauNetz) View full entry
Architecture doesn't win the Olympics, but it sure helps, not just by providing the physical spaces, but, almost more importantly, iconography. the Times of London View full entry
Another article on the competition result. Jonathan Glancey (The Guardian) doesn't seem to have much to say about the winning design. (perhaps because it was the less inspiring but more feasible and on budget option) View full entry
The Magazine for Arts and Civil Society in Central Europe has focused on architecture in it's Issue 8. The Austria based initiative has several reports and interviews with movers & shakers of the scene from central europe. There is an interesting multilingual arts project database as well as... View full entry
Been away on some actual airplanes wanderlusting away lately so, er anyway...and so, where do we go first? why not A-R-T? > a new blog | Chris Knight on Basquiat | Vanessa Beecroft accusses -former lover- Maurizio Cattelan of idea theft (& he seems to agree) | Tate buys major Ofili piece... View full entry
And Archined was there. Hey, it's not so easy to wrap up a "Grand Bazaar of Architectures (plural)." The architects did agree that the war in Iraq should end. Archiworld has speaker videos. | www.uia-architectes.org View full entry
The Empire State Development Corp has picked Related Companies and Vornado Realty Trust to turn the blocklong James A. Farley Post Office on 8th Avenue into the grand Moynihan Station, named after Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the senator who was its champion until his death in 2003. It is unclear... View full entry
Bad news for the preservation of modern architecture: Lucent Technologies is putting Saarinen's Bell Labs in New Jersey up for sale. However, the building is perhaps too large for any one company to occupy, leading some to propose demolishing it and redeveloping the land. Read View full entry