Less than a month from his 99th birthday, Oscar Niemeyer continues on living the moderist ethos... STATE View full entry
WELCOME to "Thank you, Steven Holl..."-a blog intended to raise awareness [and pulses] about the now defunct Denver Justice Center Courthouse that was proposed by the formerly designated architect, Steven Holl... The folks over at http://deproduction.org/about.htm have volunteered to screen the... View full entry
The latest print publication from MVRDV, KM3 is broken down on ArchiNed. View full entry
The ICA in London presents a wide variety of events to immerse the public into the world of Archigram. ICA l KFN View full entry
Architecture isn't about styles or dogma or polemical points of views. It requires a thoughtful grasp of what can make a place and project shine -- and a design that makes this happen in fresh, imaginative ways. SFGATE View full entry
J Glancey and Z Hadid: I dont do nice. View full entry
Zaha Hadid has created spectacular buildings all over the world - but never in Britain. As her first UK work is unveiled, she talks to Jonathan Glancey about the trials of being a woman architect, and why her new designs are inspired by the swamplands of southern Iraq. Guardian View full entry
The Gleaming Towers of Gehry is the title and the url address mentions buzz-of-bizarre-buildings. Not a bad source for mainstream Gehry awareness. I'd like to see more public comments. View full entry
The way I see it, Arquitectonica has owed New York a decent building. That firm built its reputation with a series of projects in its hometown, Miami, that mixed bold forms and alluring surfaces at bargain prices. But in New York it has produced only clunkers. NYT View full entry
The new website features much more extensive documentation and the current work of her firm... this time in technicolor! | link View full entry
Chicago SOM frontman Adrian Smith leaves his post to open his own architectural practice. TRIB l SunTimes View full entry
After the recent New York Times article "The Incredible Shrinking Daniel Libeskind: How Ground Zero's Visionary Architect Went from Master Planner to Minor Player", Libeskind is once again on the hot seat... and his answer to that: "We are on schedule" and democratically compromised... link View full entry
In losing one competiton for a train station in Naples, Peter Eisenman won a bid in Italy, the Pompeii train stations. A l P View full entry
Paulo Mendes da Rocha, the 2006 Pritzker Prize Laureate will speak at the Art Institute in Chicago on October 20th. Get your tickets now. View full entry
In Paris, at the Jardin d'Acclimatation, LVMH's Bernard Arnault, unveils a "dream"; weaved by FOG, a glass facetted quasi-blob, yet to be softened into "a cloud made of glass". "I want everything to look like my drawings," Gehry went on, waving toward large reproductions of seemingly chaotic pen... View full entry