Zaha Hadid launches her latest architectural project in Hong Kong combining art, fashion and architecture. The "Mobile Art" pavilion backed by luxury goods brand Chanel, will tour the world for two years. (I love her Arab English accent)reuters video |article View full entry
The Baltimore branch of the AIA will be presenting a lecture by Archinect editor/BLDGBLOGGER Geoff Manaugh on March 19. Geoff's talk will be the first in this year's Michael F. Trostel Lecture series. More View full entry
An exhibition just opened entitled UTOPIA'S GHOST at the Centre Canadien d’Architecture (Canadian Centre for Architecture) in Montreal, Phyllis Lambert’s illustrious institution (in the same gallery where CLIP/STAMP/FOLD was recently exhibited). The exhibition is a collaboration... View full entry
Eikongraphia posts an interesting exchange between Eisenman, Kipnis, and audience regarding his position on unpaid internships. View full entry
The future's looking grim for the REX-designed Museum Plaza project in Louisville, KY. According to the Courier Journal, "Developers have indefinitely postponed efforts to borrow money for the $490 million building because of concerns about higher interest costs on bonds and a construction loan."... View full entry
A planned 75-story residential skyscraper connected to the Museum of Modern Art seems headed for a fight with area residents, who claim the Jean Nouvel-designed tower would be dramatically out of scale with the surrounding neighborhood. NY Observer via Curbed | previously View full entry
Just a few years ago, Chinese architects would have worked for the state. Now a whole new generation are striking out for themselves. What are they building? Jonathan Glancey reportsWhatever other glamorous projects these talented young architects are beginning to scoop up, it is mostly housing... View full entry
ANISH KAPOOR HOUSE, BAHAMAS, ELEUTHERA ISLAND Located on top of the hill, perpendicular to the slope and cantilevers out on both sides, OMA proposed 2 different strategies for a summerhouse. Both designs are very rigid, yet the appearance of the house is very modest. It is barely visible from the... View full entry
The creators of the new Olympic stadium in Beijing hope that their building will embody radical ideas such as freedom. GuardianApart from football, there is only one subject that raises their ire: Beijing. Or, more specifically, the decision of Steven Spielberg last month to pull out of directing... View full entry
World Monuments Fund lends hand to help save endangered building... Previously on Archinect:SAVE ME! Grosse Pointe Central Library, designed by Marcel Breuer (1953) - slated for demolitionA year in the life of the Grosse Pointe Public Library GROSSE POINTE, Mich. – The World Monuments Fund... View full entry
Alvin Aronson , a BFA candidate at RISD, has designed a beautiful clock that mimics the look of a traditional LED display, with physical segments slowly fading in and out of a white surface. Photos and video after the jump... View full entry
After a $19 million makeover, Parsons has been fundamentally reconceived at ground level and the improvements are considerable. In the new 32,800-square-foot Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, Lyn Rice Architects has undertaken a task that is both Herculean and largely thankless, in the sense that... View full entry
In recent years regional theaters across the USA have undertaken a building boom. While providing more space and pizazz this has also led to increased funding needs.Enter the Boosters, Bearing Theaters The NYT tells us that...It’s also good news that the buildings, as objects of... View full entry
Nissan's new US$100 million HQ in Franklin, Tenn. is supposedly a green project. Nissan, however, will not be submitting for USGBC seal of approval, preferring to restore the wetland "rather than have a plaque on the wall"... USGBC, undoubtedly perturbed at having a large muli-national corp thumb... View full entry
Designboom aggregates a selection (4 pages worth of renderings and plans) of what the future of Dubai, and skyscraper design technology and evolution will bring in the coming years.Excess? View full entry
