ForeignPolicy.com provides a tour of "the most ambitious and audacious designs breaking ground in some of the world’s least free countries." Go View full entry

In two weeks' time, London will decide who takes charge of the city for the next four years and who will steer a path through issues such as growth, green space and social cohesion. In a heartfelt personal plea, Stephen Bayley takes issue with Ken Livingstone's record and calls on the other... View full entry

Big-time development has always been a rough-and-tumble world in New York. But in recent years, as government has ceded more and more power to private interests, developers have become magicians at negotiating their way through the byzantine public review process. Nowhere is this sleight of hand... View full entry

IT has been a tough year for the Neutra VDL Research House II, the fabled glass box overlooking Silver Lake reservoir. Already in need of costly repairs, the house where Richard Neutra lived and worked was damaged further by winter storms that overwhelmed its flat roof, poured rain into the walls... View full entry

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Two sets of confidential blueprints for the planned Freedom Tower, which is set to rise at Ground Zero, were carelessly dumped in a city garbage can on the corner of West Houston and Sullivan streets... from the Forum View full entry

Nine mile-high skyscrapers and floating cities that never were. Via Wired View full entry

Zaha Hadid wins the competition to design the new Solomon R Guggenheim museum in Vilnius, Lithuania. With a shiny, metallic blob, she beats the shiny, metallic blobs of fellow global stars Daniel Libeskind and Massimiliano Fuksas. Bustler View full entry

The wraps are starting to come off 2 Columbus Circle, which will be reborn this fall as the Museum of Art and Design. Although it remains within the dimensions and footprint of the original, the structure, formerly home to the Huntington Hartford Museum, has been fundamentally changed inside and... View full entry

The USA Today discusses how more countries around the world are studying American suburbs as methods of controlling their increasing urban populations. View full entry

Vanity Fair covers Renzo Piano's California Academy of Sciences, in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. The project features an aquarium, planetarium, and natural-history museum under a two-and-a-half-acre “living roof.” VFIn 2000, six world-renowned architects competed for the... View full entry

Hadley Freeman dissects the fashion choices of some of the worlds leading architects.. Guardian My personal favorite belowMike Davies View full entry

Martin Filler offers his highly opinionated personal picks for the best new museum architecture of the year just past, followed by a selection of the year's worst. View full entry

Remember the cool D/A Clock that we mentioned in the news last month? Apparently there's an even cooler version that's available for purchase, AND fits on your wrist... perhaps even the inspiration for Alvin Aronson's D/A? Watchismo reports on the Opus 8, designed by Frédéric... View full entry

Livable Places, an LA-based non-profit founded in 2000, dedicated to improving the the quality of affordable housing, has filed Chapter 11. Read their letter on the LP website. via LA Curbed View full entry