This year jury's pickings show a strong strain of virtue-rewarded. Not in any prissy, holier-than-thou way, but in a way that tries to reward a genuine syncretism of goodness and beauty. SMH | slides View full entry

The transformation goes beyond the architecture, which helped inflate the Games' price tag to a record-smashing $43 billion. The government is also trying to create a new, improved population. LA Times View full entry

With a shiny cubic pod, a scaffolding wrapped in transparent solar panels and a jigsaw-puzzle cottage, New York's Museum of Modern Art has turned a next-door vacant lot into a tiny, giddy world's fair. Bloomberg | prev. | also View full entry

Burst* 008, a full-scale house for the Museum of Modern Art, was a photo finish for its two architects, Jeremy Edmiston and Douglas Gauthier. NYT View full entry

By now you are all well aware of the Douglas fir timber building designed by Gehry for the Serpentine Gallery. Iwan Baan recently photograph another building made out of the a similar type of timber in Japan, a house by Sou Fujimoto. Conclusions about the way the material is used are for you to... View full entry

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If you haven't yet noticed, we've served up some new features...NEXT-GENE20, Taiwan's Experimental Housing Masterplan NEXT-GENE20, a project challenging 20 architects from around the world to design villas along the Northeast Coast National Scenic Area in Taiwan, has unveiled the designs from the... View full entry

2,000 tons of sand, 85 boats, 950 trees, and 61 beach cabins have been temporarily installed on an expressway in Paris. Guardian View full entry

Elisabeth Rosenthal examines Britain's attempt to "green" residential housing stock. A range of methods have grown in popularity including; smart metering, the retro-fitting of older housing stock with better efficiencies, green roofs and the addition of on-site wind or solar generation. NYT We... View full entry

Describing it as a “front porch” for Lincoln Center, the architects Tod Williams and Billie Tsien have redesigned Harmony Atrium between West 62nd and 63rd Streets as a “theatrical garden” featuring 20-foot-high walls of plants and rods of falling water. NYT View full entry

The redesigned extension to the Tate Modern contemporary art museum in London, launched today, shows Jacques Herzog moving from what would effectively have been a built diagram of stacked boxes - his first attempt of two years ago - into something considerably more smoothly sculpted. It's turning... View full entry

Eric Chavkin reviews recent John Lautner Exhibition in Hammer Museum exclusively for Archinect. Along with the museum show, Mr. Chavkin anecdotes his personal experiences with the late architect as well as his takes on few of the projects. Review after the jump... View full entry

The most park-impoverished major city in America, Los Angeles devotes only 4 percent of its land to public greenery. By contrast, parkland comprises 17 percent of New York City and 9 percent of Boston (where 97 percent of the city’s children have immediate access to a park — as... View full entry

North Korea's phantom hotel is stirring back to life. The 105-storey Ryugyong Hotel is back under construction after a 16-year lull in the capital of N. Korea. Egypt's Orascom group is the contractor. yahoo news | previously View full entry

Architect's Newspaper: Can Prefab Deliver? | Inga Saffron: Changing Skyline: Setting up house | See-through Phila. house is N.Y. museum 'exhibit' | Metropolis: Industrialists Without Factories - Kieran Timberlake’s Cellophane House takes the mass and the production out of mass production. |... View full entry