NYTimes ' David Dunlap takes a look at the Hearst Tower, and perhaps a little bit of what it might have been like if Foster had won the WTC commission. You can get some progress shots from Wired New York or from Stern. View full entry
The NY Times and the Daily News report on the closure of the Terminal 5 exhibit at JFK. Also, photos from the preview party and a photo from the Vanessa Beecroft performance that so displeased JetBlue. (Related discussion...) View full entry
www.bigboxreuse.com research by Julia Christensen, and lecture 10/12 at CLUI-TroyNY View full entry
“Thus, as a building material that is found in every country in the world, earth highlights the changing values of architecture across cultures and is a measure of our attitudes to our future as well as our past.” Arshad Ali raises the social consciousness of our construction... View full entry
John Hill (of the Doses.. the daily and the weekly) compiles the winners of 2004 Chicago AIA Awards, picking out "some relatively unknown gems." And Studio Gang wins big. Look. | AIA Chicago Excellence site View full entry
The Toronto Star offers this review of Bruace Mau's Too Perfect: Seven New Denmarks. Previously... View full entry
Christopher Hawthorne replaces Nicolai Ouroussoff who recently moved to the NY Times. View full entry
Frei Otto , the German architect and structural engineer who examined nature to bring a certain elegance to his famous pavilions worldwide, has been awarded the 2005 RIBA Royal Gold Medal of Architecture . Jonathan Glancey reports how soap bubbles and cobwebs helped Frei Otto win architecture's... View full entry
Newsday : the Parsons School of Design has invited 47 artists and architects, ranging from Christo to David Byrne and Diane von Furstenberg, to design their own voting booths - not as a way of adding beauty to the moment of decision Nov. 2, but as a vehicle for humor and commentary. Event... View full entry
The Kansas City Star begins a three-part exploration of the structural glass system at the $200 million Steven Holl-designed Nelson Atkins Museum expansion. "The stories reveal what it means when materials and builders are asked to do new things in the cause of art and architecture." Part... View full entry
the winners announced, via pamphletarchitecture.org. The jury awarded the First Prize to BENJAMIN ARANDA and CHRIS LASCH (also known as Terraswarm). They will receive $2,000 to expand their project, Tooling, into Pamphlet Architecture 27. "Pamphlet Architecture, which has served as an incubator... View full entry
Erected during a relatively brief time span, the Mall's postwar museum buildings offer eloquent testimony to modernism's fundamental stylistic instability. Catesby Leigh opines in the Weekly Standard on how well the new National Museum of the American Indian, the building that "completes" the... View full entry
High-rise balconies in New York City once carried the modernist symbolism of a clean, healthy lifestyle, along with the white brick buildings they were often attached to. But, even though people are willing to pay more for apartments that have them, the realities of the city mean that they are... View full entry
An exhibition at the National Gallery in Washington will open Oct. 3rd as a retrospective of the late American minimalist installation artist Dan Flavin. (NYT) View full entry
The Architectural Biennial Beijing (ABB) opened last Monday Sept. 20th to a massive turnout. Occupying a total exhibition area of 200,000 square meters, attracting over 10,000 professionals from around the world, and involving 2 million visitors in activities, the debate over foreign influence... View full entry