Jean Nouvel's baths building opened last July 17th on Le Havre. A revitalisation project lead by the city in order to create together with the mandatory shopping centre a unique destination in the long term. Flickr photos - Press (in french) View full entry
A construction boom tied to the Olympics is threatening two types of housing in China’s capital. NYT View full entry
While a dark flood of pseudo-critical article's on Beijing's urban transformation is clogging the international press channels, few have focused on stadia other than the Cube or the Nest. Bert de Muynck | movingcities published in a recent issue of MARK Magazine 'Olympic Architecture'... View full entry
This year jury's pickings show a strong strain of virtue-rewarded. Not in any prissy, holier-than-thou way, but in a way that tries to reward a genuine syncretism of goodness and beauty. SMH | slides View full entry
The transformation goes beyond the architecture, which helped inflate the Games' price tag to a record-smashing $43 billion. The government is also trying to create a new, improved population. LA Times View full entry
With a shiny cubic pod, a scaffolding wrapped in transparent solar panels and a jigsaw-puzzle cottage, New York's Museum of Modern Art has turned a next-door vacant lot into a tiny, giddy world's fair. Bloomberg | prev. | also View full entry
Burst* 008, a full-scale house for the Museum of Modern Art, was a photo finish for its two architects, Jeremy Edmiston and Douglas Gauthier. NYT View full entry
By now you are all well aware of the Douglas fir timber building designed by Gehry for the Serpentine Gallery. Iwan Baan recently photograph another building made out of the a similar type of timber in Japan, a house by Sou Fujimoto. Conclusions about the way the material is used are for you to... View full entry
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If you haven't yet noticed, we've served up some new features...NEXT-GENE20, Taiwan's Experimental Housing Masterplan NEXT-GENE20, a project challenging 20 architects from around the world to design villas along the Northeast Coast National Scenic Area in Taiwan, has unveiled the designs from the... View full entry
2,000 tons of sand, 85 boats, 950 trees, and 61 beach cabins have been temporarily installed on an expressway in Paris. Guardian View full entry
Elisabeth Rosenthal examines Britain's attempt to "green" residential housing stock. A range of methods have grown in popularity including; smart metering, the retro-fitting of older housing stock with better efficiencies, green roofs and the addition of on-site wind or solar generation. NYT We... View full entry
Describing it as a “front porch” for Lincoln Center, the architects Tod Williams and Billie Tsien have redesigned Harmony Atrium between West 62nd and 63rd Streets as a “theatrical garden” featuring 20-foot-high walls of plants and rods of falling water. NYT View full entry
The redesigned extension to the Tate Modern contemporary art museum in London, launched today, shows Jacques Herzog moving from what would effectively have been a built diagram of stacked boxes - his first attempt of two years ago - into something considerably more smoothly sculpted. It's turning... View full entry
Eric Chavkin reviews recent John Lautner Exhibition in Hammer Museum exclusively for Archinect. Along with the museum show, Mr. Chavkin anecdotes his personal experiences with the late architect as well as his takes on few of the projects. Review after the jump... View full entry