Stemming from his proposal for the swiss-cheesed Westside Lofts Condo project, Architect Wil Alsop's recent work in Toronto is cited as the culprit responsible for a new array of Supergraphics gentrifying the Queen West neighborhood in Toronto | The Torontoist via Gothamist | Flickr View full entry

Lord Rogers , the modernist high priest of British architecture who designed the Millennium Dome and the Lloyd’s building in London, is to take on Ikea, the Swedish retailer of flat-pack furniture, in a battle to remodel the British home. UKT l related View full entry

AMO/OMA is surveyed in the 436 page double issue of the latest El Croquis. | preview View full entry

Howeler + Yoon: exhibit now showing at RISDy...investigations based loosely along the lines of pliable skins and implied planes, a growing body of work. Catch 'em lecturing tomorrow (11/30) at RISD; exhibition open until 12/10. Also, Meejin Yoon's work is featured in the Skin & Bones show at... View full entry

Architect Meinhard von Gerkan sued Deutsche Bahn for distorting his plan by exchanging his ceiling, designed to resemble a cathedral's nave, for one made of flat metal designed by another architect. Bloomy l Guardian View full entry

Hitoshi Abe , the new chair of architecture and urban design at UCLA is interviewed by db l previous View full entry

Congratulations to Oscar Niemeyer, who just got married to his longtime aide Vera Lucia Cabreira. Reuters View full entry

Buildings designed by Mario Botta feel like sacred spaces, says Dominic Bradbury.Telegraph View full entry

You will excuse me, I hope, if I pass over in silence OMA's expensive talk about society and capitalism and the projection onto the entire site of Piranesi's 18th-century map of Rome. All of that, together with the curators' claim that "CCTV is the creation of an entire world," can be pretty much... View full entry

Zee German's at baunetz.de have a nice series called Emerging Identities - East! Where they examine the rising architectural scene in the former Warsaw Pact/Eastern Bloc. View full entry

Louis Sullivan once was the most prolific architect building in Chicago--constructing a staggering 125 buildings after the Great Fire. After several little catastropies there are 21... SUNT View full entry

Italian architect Massimiliano Fuksas finally cycles into the "international scene" BWeek View full entry

The award-winning architect Richard Rogers yesterday threatened to boycott the London 2012 Olympics in protest at how building contracts are being awarded. guardian l related View full entry

Although his free-spirit personality and creative attitude may appear to be fairly typical of the persona of a professional artist, that Ai Weiwei was raised in the People's Republic of China, where communism has defined both the civil society and governmental structure for decades, sheds a new... View full entry

At 37 years old, Japanese architect Kumiko Inui is making traction into the pantheon of Japan's best architects. DYO l flickr l china visual l related View full entry