The winners of this year’s RIBA awards are a bold mix of home comforts and edgy architecture. TimesOnline View full entry
If Steven Holl’s translucent 2007 addition to Kansas City’s Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art didn’t give him Gehry status among architourists, then his four projects this year certainly will. NYT Travel Summer 2009 View full entry
The glass-panel-blanketed Asymptote-designed Yas Hotel / Formula 1 raceway circuit in Abu Dhabi is nearing completion. Check Bustler for details and photos. View full entry
Architect Richard Meier fullfills a lifetime dream by designing a condo tower in Tel Aviv, Israel. "It's a work of art, it's a work of architecture, it shows architecture as art and architecture is art about making space... We can appreciate all the colors around us because of the whiteness of... View full entry
Berlin-based J. MAYER H. Architects just finished a stylish center for dentistry in Hamburg. Mostly pain-free photos and description after the break. Description from JMH:The center for dentistry is situated in a medical center in Hamburg St. Georg, close to Hamburg's lively downtown. Free... View full entry
The new $294 million Modern Wing of the Art Institute of Chicago, which opens on Saturday, is the closest Mr. Piano has come in at least a decade to achieving this near-classical ideal. NYT View full entry
The sources say the agency's new vision for the site calls for scrapping one tower that would have been taller than the Empire State Building and nixing two others that would have dwarfed the nearby Woolworth Building. Gothomist View full entry
What do you do when a hulking, 107-unit "luxury" condo project stalls out midway through construction in your quiet Brooklyn neighborhood? If you're the community group Stable Brooklyn, you lead the charge to transform it into affordable housing, while in the process creating what could become... View full entry
One of Istanbul's newest mosques, a first ever designed by a woman, Zeynep Fadıllıoğlu, opens. Pictures via Radikal View full entry
Anneli Rufus and Kristan Lawson, coauthors of The Scavengers' Manifesto, recently took a tour of Berkeley's David Brower Center and documented the trip on their blog. A whopping 53 percent of its construction involves recycled materials, which makes this complex of offices, conference rooms... View full entry
The Rohm and Haas Co. headquarters in Center City Philadelphia, designed by Pietro Belluschi, is being sold by owner Dow Chemical Co. Read View full entry
This recycled building by 2012 Architecthen and Jeanneworks tosses the "everything but the kitchen sink" cliché out the window. Rising up like a culinary castle over the cities of Utrecht, Vlaardingen, and Amsterdam, the Sustainable Sky Box is composed entirely of reclaimed kitchen sinks... View full entry
The proposal of MVRDV on HD video. View full entry
The reaction to the announcement that the team of Freelon Adjaye Bond SmithGroup has been selected to design the National Museum of African American History and Culture should be a round of applause. NYT | Slideshow | prev. View full entry
This week we ShowCase a commercial project by the previously UpStarted Dutch firm Sputnik. The Westland project is a great example of a modern, clean, and functional commercial building constructed under the pressure of very tight budget constraints. Go View full entry
