Architect Kyu Sung Woo has designed a new graduate housing complex for Harvard University in Cambridge, MA. The 10 Akron Street project occupies a prominent location on the Charles River, at the corner of Memorial Drive and Akron Street and is one of a series of new residences for Harvard... View full entry
The only thing gloomier than the weather [yesterday] was the members of the Landmarks Preservation Commission, sitting out this morning’s thunderstorm as they decided the fate of Albert C. Ledner's iconic O’Toole Building, which St. Vincent’s Hospital hopes to demolish and... View full entry
I don’t blame people for being nervous. It takes a certain hubris to mess with the noble Beaux-Arts structure that has dominated the southwest corner of Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street for nearly a century. A product of the City Beautiful movement, the New York Public Library is one of the... View full entry
After a decade of creating jutting projections for museums, Daniel Libeskind has attempted to redefine the look of another institution: the shopping mall. ArchRecord | Slideshow | prev. View full entry
The wild, delirious ride that architecture has been on for the last decade looks as if it’s finally coming to an end. And after a visit to the Chanel Pavilion (by Zaha Hadid) that opened Monday in Central Park, you may think it hasn’t come soon enough. NYT | Slideshow | A/N Blog View full entry
Five months ago Enterprise New York moved to 20,000 square feet of office space that is a much more accurate reflection of the communities it helps to create. Designed by Stephen Yablon Architect, this space at One Whitehall Street is a near microcosm of a city. It has busy thoroughfares and... View full entry
Designed by Coop Himmelblau and less than a year before Los Angeles Unified is scheduled to open a flagship performing arts school downtown, the project's cost has ballooned to $230 million and key backers remain worried about a lack of progress they believe has cost the district community... View full entry
Oh dear. "The Commerce Department reported Friday that construction of new homes and apartments dropped by 6.3 percent last month, a much bigger decline than the 1.6 percent decrease that had been expected." | the AP View full entry
Yes, says Keith Bradley one of the Stirling-Prize-winning development’s architects; but Alan Cherry, of the scheme’s developer Countryside Properties, disagrees. BD | prev. View full entry
Saw-toothed glass dances in a conga line above leaping arcs of metal roof at the Peter B. Lewis Science Library at Princeton University. The signature hand of Frank Gehry is unmistakable. But where are the books? Bloomberg View full entry
LAtimes makes the case for replacing the intransigent LA Unified School Board for their complacency in razing the place where Bobby Kennedy was shot. So why do the powers that be in LA like destroying history so much? View full entry
The Stirling Prize winners talk to the The Architects' Journal | Jonathan Glancey (FT) and Edwin Heathcote (Guardian) both applaud the fact that for the first time in [the] 13-year history of the Stirling Prize, a housing scheme is recognized. | prev. View full entry
Buildings acquire personality not only through their architecture, but through the events that they witness. In the case of Eero Saarinen's American Embassy in Grosvenor Square, London, the two are inextricably intertwined. From the anti-Vietnam-War protests of the 1960s, through the... View full entry
Architect Joshua Prince-Ramus said a majority of the construction documents are complete and he remains committed to the project and he talks with Museum Plaza's developers about once a week. courier-journal | 7 months ago View full entry
Accordia in Cambridge by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios, Alison Brooks Architects and Maccreanor Lavington has won the 2008 Stirling Prize. BD View full entry