You can now have a mayor public building in New York named after you, if you care to give a little donation for a good cause. The good cause in this case being the construction of an "important non-for-profit cultural institution". Read Only Billionaires need to apply. For the average archinect... View full entry
Rural Studio, Sam Mockbee, and a guy called Music Man: it's Modernism in high gear - in Alabama, "a place where trailers teetering on cinderblocks and disintegrating barns were two of the most common building types." New York Times. View full entry
Construction shots of the second (and last?) project by Ãlvaro Siza in Barcelona: a 40.000 sqm sports complex, including a sports pavilion and a covered pool. Works started in Jan. 2003 and will finish next month. Siza himself will inaugurate it in Jan. 4, 2006. View in the Gallery |... View full entry
"On the table sits a two-foot-tall scale model of architect Frank Gehry's plan for the Atlantic Yards in Brooklyn, where the Nets will move from New Jersey in 2008, with little trees and shrubs planted around the wooden buildings and acrylic skyscrapers shaped in the forms that Gehry will create... View full entry
It makes an architectural plastic so revolutionary that at first, firms weren't sure what to do with it -- but they're catching on fast... (i.e. Diller Scofidio + Renfro's renovation of Alice Tully Hall at New York's Lincoln Center). Read View full entry
Did the Beeb bottle it? What went wrong with BBC's patronage of architecture? View full entry
James Ingo Freed, a partner at Pei Cobb Freed, architect of the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC, died December 15 at his home in Manhattan after a decades-long battle with Parkinson's Disease. | archrec View full entry
"Music lovers, critics and writers worry too much about acoustics. Truly bad acoustics - whether you hear too little or too much - cannot be ignored, but the imperfect world that lingers between the two extremes just has to be dealt with." NYT. View full entry
'The perfect architectural show for Christmas'Jonathan Glancey. until January 14 in the RIBA Gallery. This travelling show consists of very large photographic prints, richly detailed sectioned models and even Botta's own sketches on blackboards around the gallery space. Photos. View full entry
Beginning January 4th, Gray Line New Orleans, will be leading visitors on bus led tours of the city, dubbed, "Hurricane Katrina Tour -- America's Worst Catastrophe!". For $35 a ticket out-of-towners will be driven around ghost towns and wasted neighborhoods to get up close and personal with... View full entry
What more can we say? Another fantastic year for architects! View full entry
Kultureflash unveils a Zaha Hadid entry for the Islamic wing at the Louvre, a competition won by Mario Bellini and Rudy Ricciotti. View full entry
Foster and Partners has been selected to design a new office complex development in downtown Calgary. The EnCana New Building Project will be headquarters to Canada's leading energy company, EnCana Corporation. archiseek | globeandmail View full entry
The good Lord has been chosen to design Tower 2. The "new 65-story tower would be named 200 Greenwich and contain 2.4 million square feet of office space, along with nearly 280,000 square feet of retail space." Architect's Newspaper. View full entry
Denver officials have just selected Steven Holl Architects to design the new courthouse and Hartman-Cox Architects to design the new jail. Denver Post View full entry