Dwell features William Massie's prefab American House 08.For the first time in his career, Massie found himself free of demanding clients. “They are not good coconspirators,” this obsessive experimenter confesses. And experiment he did. Sometimes his search for different materials... View full entry
Speaking of FLW...The historic Frank Lloyd Wright building—troubled by crumbling ceilings, leaky walls and the prospect of a repair bill of more than $1 million— (has) just won a $200,000 federal grant. View full entry
OMA explores ordinary architecture in scheme for London's Commonwealth Institute. Evening Standard | previously 1 2 3 View full entry
As if Dubai needed to further justify its status as an out-of-this-world tourist destination, the emirate has decided to step things up by constructing a universe-themed chain of islands. Situated inshore of the Wold Islands, the Universe will comprise 3,000 hectares of land and will take 15 to... View full entry
Nicolai Ouroussoff follows up his previous article on I. M. Pei's latest project with thoughts on the architect's career: I CAN’T seem to get the Museum of Islamic Art out of my mind. There’s nothing revolutionary about the building. But its clean, chiseled forms have a tranquillity... View full entry
Designed by Vianese firm Querkraft, Museum Liaunig in Southern Austria has an architecture that protrudes out on two sides over a steep-sided landscape. The cut through the hill marks a punctual intervention in nature. Archinnovations View full entry
Bernard Tschumi presented his New Acropolis Museum at the RIBA last week, and took Greece’s bid to win back the Elgin Marbles to the next level. BD | prev. 1 | 2 | 3 View full entry
OMA’s proposed luxury new build [sic] and refurbishment scheme for the iconic Commonwealth Institute in Kensington has been unveiled. BD | WAN View full entry
Can restoring Paul Rudolph's signature building rescue the architect's reputation as well? Slate View full entry
Daniel Libeskind is renowned for his way with words. His orations have charmed competition juries, and in a 2003 profile, critic Paul Goldberger wrote, “For an architect who loves to talk, Libeskind says very little about his buildings that could be considered analytical.” Not so for... View full entry
Turkish entrepreneur Cem Kinay is pitching his new development this week to the crowds at Design Miami. "O" is located on Dellis Cay, Kinay's 560-acre private island in the Turks and Caico, and includes a small-scale Mandarin Oriental hotel and 78 residences designed by Zaha Hadid, David... View full entry
Curbed reports on the "Hover Tube"...The 54-story condo—built on columns and hovering over the existing building—would top out at over 900 feet (the Clocktower is 700' tall, One Madison Park is just over 600'). Oh, and it's totally tubular. View full entry
Major works of post-WWII modernism at Yale have recently undergone or are undergoing major renovation efforts, making a visit to New Haven a unique opportunity to experience these masterpieces in their ideal states of existence. But can this impressive effort to resurrect at Yale inspire similar... View full entry
Pionen a Cold War defence facility, still under the original code name, is a state of the art ultra secure hosting centre for co-location plus network operation for Bahnhof, one of Sweden’s largest Internet Service Providers. worldarchitecturenews > View full entry
Architects and Planners for Justice in Palestine issues a protest in Guardian against the Museum."We call on the Jerusalem municipality, the Simon Wiesenthal Centre and the Israeli authorities not to allow this architectural time-bomb to proceed." Among the signaturesare; Charles Jencks, Richard... View full entry