Mayo Woodlands in Minnesota is winning awards for its daring architecture but getting the cold shoulder from conservative Rochester. From the NY Times. View full entry
Frank Gehry's closing line on an interview By Ellis Woodman for Building Design.Gehry's endgameThe 75-year-old talks to Ellis Woodman about George Bush, building bandstands and beating Bill Gates By Ellis Woodman So I�ve just arrived in Chicago... View full entry
As the first female associate-architect with Architecture-Studio- the company that is working on projects such as the historic four-kilometre, Makkah Western Gateway, the National Theatre in Bahrain, and the Grand Theatre in Beirut - Roueida Ayache's work is undoubtedly extraordinary. View full entry
Ushida Findlay , winner of the scrapped Bury St Edmunds Corn, appears to have run into some bad luck. View full entry
BEIRUT: A carpet unrolls to reveal all the necessary elements of a cozy living space, a public bench doubles as a children's seesaw, a hotel is built into a shipping container that can be transported from one island resort to another - Beirut-born designer Pascal Tarabay invents objects that... View full entry
What with launching a lawsuit against the developer of the Ground Zero site and learning that the V&A's Spiral Gallery may never get built, you might think Daniel Libeskind has had a tough fortnight. Not so, he tells Jonathan Glancey View full entry
Jim Quilty writes this article, talking to many of her Beiruti peers and lets them assess the work of Zaha. From the Daily Star View full entry
Hwaa Irfan remembers the great Egyptian architect Hassan Fathy. (from IslamOnline.net) View full entry
The Chinese love the monumental ambition. They hate the monumental price tag - and the "foreign" design. A portfolio of the grand ideas and grim realities behind the contentious new vision for China Central Television. Rem Koolhaas writes the “Beijing Manifesto” for Wired... View full entry
According to Deborah Schoeneman , "Richard Meier is expanding his celebrity-friendly condo brand to Brooklyn." Curbed quips: "Hey, cuz everything has gone so well in Manhattan, right?" (referring to this) View full entry
After Michael Graves fell ill, his business had one of its best years ever. This great designer's greatest design may be his company. View full entry
This is his largest show to date offering an impressionistic look back at where he's been over the past 14 years: Berlin, Zagreb, Sarajevo, Havana, Vienna, Taiwan, Paris, New York. And Pittsburgh, a dynamic architectural intervention that, by temporarily altering gallery interiors, challenges... View full entry
Italy's Mario Bellini has been equally adept at small and large scale projects for 40 years By Mark Curtis (Tandem) View full entry
Wallpaper* offers 25 intrepid architects from around the world in its Directory. recommended include: | Felipe Assadi | s_w_arch | peripheriques | DP6 | Chiba Manabu | Atelier Oi View full entry
From the carport to the L-shaped workstation, Frank Lloyd Wright pioneered enduring conventions in a career that followed few traditions. (frm Business Week) View full entry
