A team consisting of the Richard Rogers Partnership, FXFowle Architects, and A. Epstein & Sons International received word that key aspects of a $1.7 billion plan to expand the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center were a GO. ArchNP l previous View full entry
Anish Kapoor and Tumi create a limited edition backpack (each will cost $695) to benefit Doctors Without Borders. VIA Also, Kapoor has joined forces with Salman Rushdie to create....art? Independent View full entry
A cadre of artists has assembled along the banks of the Mississippi to construct the flotilla Miss Rockaway Armada. Imagine Don Quixote, Salvador Dalà and Che Guevara collaborated on a floating medicine show. It is hard to say what the Coast Guard will say when it first lays eyes on... View full entry
Diller Scofidio + Renfro's Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston has announced that the opening of its new $51 million home, originally scheduled for Sept. 17, has been postponed because of construction delays. NYT l Boston Globe View full entry
Massimiliano Fuksas is to build his competition winning scheme for The Nelson Mandela Institution for Knowledge Building and the Advancement of Science and Technology in the Nigerian capital of Abuja. Record View full entry
Arizonans get ready to kick the tires on their new football stadium by Peter Eisenman Architects/HOK on Sunday. AR Republic View full entry
The Finnish weight in on "wow architecture" and its affects and effects for the future of any urban condition. Sanomat View full entry
Norsk Form and PROJEKT 0047 present "Industry!, Contemporary Meetings between Architecture and Industry" - an exhibition that investigates the interplay between architecture and industry, with a special focus on how knowledge can be transferred between the fields... at DogA Norwegian Centre for... View full entry
Gehry's firm was criticized by builders during court pleadings, but the settlement includes a “non-disparagement” clause that bars Mortenson and its subs from criticizing the architect's work. ENR View full entry
He warned us last July in an interview @ buildering.net that he would soon be climbing "a building" in Barcelona .. and what else could that be but the bullet-shaped, new catalan icon by Jean Nouvel: the Agbar Tower. Spiderman climbed it yesterday morning and received some medical assistance... View full entry
About 500 architects, critics and curious guests migrated to a small village outside Moscow for Arkhstoyaniye opening. The 17 objects built (pics) for Arkhstoyaniye had to satisfy two technical requirements: being made of wood and having no interior frames. | moscowtimes View full entry
The Freitag Shop in Zurich is piled high with modified steel shipping container goodness. See the construction process and shipping container conversion on Freitag's Flickr page. via l previous View full entry
The Alliance to Rescue Civilization , a group that advocates a backup for humanity by way of a station on the Moon replete with DNA samples of all life on Earth, as well as a compendium of all human knowledge...NYT l also View full entry
Check out this video from CNN featuring Peter Demaria's house in LA. Also, a story in the St. Petersburg Times about a shipping container house here in St. Pete, Florida. View full entry
Christopher Hawthorne takes a look at Ray Kappe's new Ocean Park prefab for Living Homes and questions if it is Such a Deal? View full entry