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
The “schematic design” phase is now complete, and the building’s basic position and shape have been established... The new building will double the amount of gallery space at the Museum, which was designed by Louis I. Kahn and is considered to be a milestone of museum... View full entry
The University of Baltimore has named Behnisch Architekten of Stuttgart, Germany, in partnership with Baltimore’s Ayers/Saint/Gross, Inc., as the winner of the international competition to design the new John and Frances Angelos Law Center at UB. Bustler View full entry
Manhattan's iconic High Line carved a route through the 20th century at a height of three storeys. Now it is to be reborn as a green space. Article | Gallery View full entry
Witold Rybczynski takes a look at Renzo Piano's California Academy of Sciences building. Slideshow Essay @ Slate | Part I | prev. View full entry
Canada.com has a review of Toronto's Frank Gehry-designed Art Gallery of Ontario, while Torontoist shares some peeks of the interiors. View full entry
Some unauthorized images of the Kunsthaus extension in Zurich by David Chipperfield Architects have "leaked" and were published today. See them here | previous postMore images and plans are expected to be published in December. View full entry
David Chipperfield has been announced as the winner of the international competition to design an extension to the Kunsthaus (art museum) of Zurich, Switzerland. 214 architecture offices from 22 countries were taking part in this competition. As usually in Zurich only the architect has been... View full entry
It takes a certain level of nerve to announce that you are going to reinvent everyone's received notion of what a theatre is. And when it's your first building in Britain, there's a lot riding on it. But nobody ever accused architect Rafael Viñoly of lacking cojones. Thus we find an... View full entry
Herzog & de Meuron's Tenerife Arts Space has been inaugurated in Santa Cruz de Tenerife in the Canary Islands. The cultural complex combines an institute of contemporary art named after local artist Óscar Domínguez, a photography centre and a public library. Pics and Story @ BD View full entry
