This past weekend marked the gala opening of Oslo's new (and suitably cool) opera house designed by Norwegian architecture firm Snohetta. Pictures of the event via Aftenposten. More pictures via Snohetta's website (and after the jump). View full entry
When a designer like Philippe Starck predicts an end to designers, he must be kidding. Right? View full entry
New York Magazine offers four architects a fantasy job: a full block downtown, with no client to worry about. Images post-jump... the site The Locavore FantasiaWork AC The Site-Specific SculptureAT Architects The Realistic ProposalKarl Fischer Architecture The Subsidized SolutionFLAnk View full entry
The Colors of the Brain is a conference organized by the Columbia's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, on the occasion of the exhibition Take your time: Olafur Eliasson at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. The event will bring together scholars doing some of the most... View full entry
The realization of the Orange Country Great Park is suffering with housing slump. As Lannar Homes slashes plans for developing the El Toro Marine Base in Irvine, Ken Smiths vision for an urban canyon is being delayed. While the design is at 15% of completion, only 2% of the demo has been... View full entry
Forget Chequers and the Palace of Versailles. The next time Gordon Brown or Nicholas Sarkozy need a bolthole in which to recharge their batteries or a place for a private pow-wow, they might find themselves lured to a new retreat amid the pink rocks of the Nevada desert. Donna Vassar, part of the... View full entry
Two renderings the Chicago Children's Museum has been working overtime to keep hidden from the public reveal the scarring intrusiveness of the structures it wants to build on the current site on Daley Bicentennial Plaza, plus a critique of architect Krueck and Sexton's design. See it all here. View full entry
New York State’s top economic-development official has proposed moving the performing arts center planned for the former World Trade Center site and building it atop a vast subway station planned for downtown at Fulton Street and Broadway. NYT View full entry
"He conceded little; admired less; railed against Los Angeles; ploughed through the massive published set of Le Corbusier sketches and found them "worthless"; assailed Robert Venturi, Michael Graves, and Frank Gehry as slaves to "superficial effect"; accused Richard Neutra of simply reproducing... View full entry
The Architectural League has just released a podcast interview with Ascan Mergenthaler of Herzog & de Meuron, the first of a series of interviews being produced in connection with the current exhibition Studio as Muse: Herzog & de Meuron’s Design for the New Parrish Art Museum. View full entry
MVRDV, Kengo Kuma and Julien De Smedt are among the 20 architects designing 20 villas on the island of Taiwan. The Spaniard Fernando Menis, Berlin and LA based Graft, as well as 10 Taiwanese practices are among the other architects taking part. The first images of their designs for Next-Gene... View full entry
Despite a reduction in size and other design changes to reduce the cost, the price of the Acquatics Centre, by Zaha Hadid, for the 2012 Olympics in London, has more than tripled, from £75 million to £242 million. From BBC News View full entry
Recently, Lebbeus Woods has blogged a position that questions the role of the "top" architecture prize in the land. What is the Pritzker's impact other than to confirm what we already know... LWB | related | + dumb boxes View full entry
Frequent Archinect news protagonist and covert geographer Trevor Paglen was awesome on the Colbert Report! Regarding the Paglen phenom, Mass Moca says "You Saw it here First", but you know y'all saw him HERE and here back in 05! View full entry
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s ambitious dream to remake New York City streets with an elaborate plan for congestion pricing died today in a private conference room on the third floor of the State Capitol. NYT CityRoom | previously View full entry
