In a strange twist of irony both the (Berlin) Holocaust Memorial and the (Canadian) War Museum open today. | artdaily View full entry
MVRDV, who now tag themselves as the "anti-Calatravas," have won the first Marcus prize...$100,000 plum that Milwaukee's Marcus Corporation Foundation established to recognize emerging international stars in architecture. JSOnline View full entry
Apparently some architects do not like Curbed. "We had a decision to make: Leave the Architects Alone (as the subject header of the above email declared), or... what if... Curbed published a brand new blog that was even meaner to architects?" Eureka: The Gutter. View full entry
Thom Mayne pens an editorial in today's LATimes: "This is a plea for the mayor and the Los Angeles City Council to take a stand on the controversy threatening the Southern California Institute of Architecture. L.A. is in danger of losing this institutional resource for downtown and its future."... View full entry
Kenneth Walton, in the classical music pages of the Scotsman, addresses the question of form and acoustics. Disney vs Porto? So what, says Walton (apparently they both sound good). The real issue is what can it do to increase classical music's exposure. View full entry
We like them big, homes that is. When Kathryn Anthony showed relatives in Greece photographs of her 1,400-square-foot Dutch Colonial, their first question was: How many families live in it?' | miamihrld View full entry
Trees, flowers, pavilions, water ... Expo 2005 is more like an ancient Japanese palace garden than a design showcase. Jonathan Glancey is beguiled. - Guardian | Previoulsy View full entry
Peter Eisenman 's Holocaust Memorial, an unstable field of 2,711 concrete pillars, opens May 10. Ouroussoff says hats off. | nytimes (pics) | prev View full entry
Five years after the doors of the former Bankside power station opened, the British art world is transformed, writes Adrian Searle. Guardian | related View full entry
To waltz Ohr to tango. Frank Gehry, Ohr-O'Keefe Museum of Art | Reshaping the Box H&dM, Walker Art | Chemosphere House by Lautner 1960 flying saucer house gets new life from Benedikt Taschen | Sustainable architecture makes sense, naturally: Architalx in Portland | Review: Elegance in an... View full entry
Robert Slutzky, Painter and Architectural Theorist, Dies. ...lifelong exploration of the connection between painting and architecture influenced a generation of postwar architects, died on Tuesday in Abington, Pa. He was 75 and lived in Elkins Park, Pa. Co-authored (with Colin Rowe)... View full entry
On Jersey shore, classic motels meet bulldozer, Wildwood Crest, NJ. Along the gaudy, beachfront motel strip in this Jersey shore town, the sound of bulldozers and wrecking balls has been drowning out the roar of the ocean this spring. bostonglobe | A Double Diamond May Not Be Forever. Westhampton... View full entry
In the current HDM, A riskier capital venture for taxpayers than old school urban renewal: Dan Doctoroff's Grand Plans for New York City by Susan Fainstein. Related: Alex Krieger, sponsored by CablevisionTM, supports the lesser of two evils, or just the lesser? Harvard Crimson View full entry
The latest Archvoices newsletter looks at various reactions to Raphael Sperry's call for a prison design boycott (interview). View full entry
Rem sez "Architecture is too slow." Is he out of touch with the likes of the Slow Food, Slow Cities and Slow Sex movements? Nancy Levinson discusses View full entry