Los Angeles Times Architecture Critic reviews the new interior of the Los Angeles Elections Operations Center, and says it is "a piece of architecture that finds some surprising and effective grandeur in -- of all things -- the mechanics of storage." He says it is nice inside too. LA Times |... View full entry

The municipality of Rødovre, an independent municipality of Copenhagen, Denmark, announced today MVRDV and co-architect ADEPT winner of the design competition of the Rødovre Skyscraper. The 116 meter tall tower accommodates apartments, a hotel, retail and offices. A public park and... View full entry

Bert de Muynck | MovingCities writes about the second built project of Beijing's MAD-office to date, the Mongolian Private Meadow Club. For a 500,000-m2 site surrounded by extensive grassland in the Ulanbutong district of Inner Mongolia, 400 km north of Beijing, MAD designed eight holiday houses... View full entry

Lehrer Architects, headed up by Michael Lehrer, has designed the inside of a new Los Angeles County Register-Recorder/County Clerk Elections Operations in Santa Fe Springs. Curbed View full entry

NYC-based Aranda\Lasch has been commissioned to design this year's temporary structure at Design Miami. Take the jump for photos and press release... ↑ Click image to enlarge ↑ Click image to enlargeFor the first time, Design Miami/, the pre-eminent international fair for limited... View full entry

Scotland's national centre of design and architecture, The Lighthouse, could close within three months if it cannot raise enough funds to plug a projected shortfall of £300,000. TimesOnline View full entry

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