Both classicist architects and some of their more pragmatic Chicago counterparts have a weakness for returning to the past, but their approaches couldn't be more different. Read it here View full entry
Billionaires' homes have more than a dozen bedrooms, and the only vinyl is in the rare-record collection housed in the custom-built listening room. warning: most don't like your ideas either. Gates, Spielberg and Dell men tries hard but it is too big to tell.. slide show View full entry
Affordable housing -- more necessary now, post-Katrina -- is not just better than it used to be, it can be more stylish than any garden-variety McMansion. Salon View full entry
Steven Holl Architects' new Higgins Hall Center Section opened at Brooklyn's Pratt Insititute in September. Business Week View full entry
From the Park Hyatt Chicago to the Hotel Victor in Miami and the building spree in between: why? (and a side not, will Gehry get the commission he covets?) Forbes via Hotels View full entry
A couple of days of inaugural ceremonies at the Palau de les Arts Reina SofÃa in the City of Arts and Sciences, Valencia, by Santiago Calatrava. Read | CAC Gallery (click on Palacio de las Artes) | Les Arts (official site) | more info from CAC | Thanks to Noticias for the updates View full entry
THE £431 million Scottish Parliament building was yesterday awarded the country's most prestigious architectural prize. Scotsman View full entry
The Design Philosophy Papers (DPP) Journal has a really good issue right now on homelessness and design, inspired by Maria Cecilia Loschiavo dos Santos's work with and about homeless people's communities in Sao Paulo. Check it out, lots of good reads. (via) View full entry
The two week installation/reconstruction of Jean Prouvé: A Tropical House began yesterday at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. Via caryn. Previously: Prouvé en L.A. and Prouvé Tropical House View full entry
From the bowels of New York, news that eOculus is covering this week: more on the 9 NY schools show at the CfA; West Harlem Waterfront; Peter Eisenman: The Immemorial Memorial; Lower Manhattan is not just Ground Zero; Perkins Eastman/Rafael Viñoly Architects: Penn Medicine Center... View full entry
Our friends at Coudal Partners have put together a nice video/photo-documentary on Mies' IIT Crown Hall. Check it out. View full entry
David Dillon, Dallas Morning News, reviews the Nasher Center at Duke University by Viñoly (previously). Chris Hawthorn grades new schools in the LA area. View full entry
Las Vegas buildings seem forever either to be getting built or getting torn down, and few have ever been considered for any sort of architectural preservation. On the other hand, few are like La Concha motel, or at least the 1,000-square-foot lobby that remains. Designed by the architect Paul... View full entry
"New Orleans badly needs what one Dutch town already has: amphibious houses that float off their foundations in rising waters..." A tip from Arts & Letters Daily. View full entry
Ordupgaard Art Museum Denmark by Zaha Hadid review in the Guardian. | prev View full entry