The Jury Committee of Rome City Council have declared the winner of the competition for the design of the new Rome Civic Offices Capitoline 2 (Campidoglio 2): Mario Cucinella Architects have designed the winning project with Studio Altieri. More View full entry
The Italian Prime Minister takes a jab at Daniel Libeskind's design for an art museum and office tower in Milan. Independent View full entry
The bunker, built between 1978-1983 to save elite East German leaders from a nuclear attack, will briefly drop its veil of secrecy this August for three months, after that, it will be permanently sealed. CSM | bunker 5001.com View full entry
The Detroit News has a good article and photo gallery about Bill Massie's prototype house currently on display at the Cranbrook Art Museum. Click. | previously View full entry
Renderings, construction, pictures, videos, architects, clients, everybody smiling, you name it... All here, all glorious. Now leasing. www.wtc.com View full entry
In Ping Mag, a review of this new book edited by Kristin & Lukas Feireiss of Architecture Forum Aedes and published by the ubercool Gestalten Verlag. Watch Video as well. View full entry
"For all the buzz surrounding prefab, few of these projects actually move beyond the conception stage to become built environments. The number of full-fledged modern prefab houses built nationwide in 2008 will be in the dozens, not hundreds." LAT | previously View full entry
News item (with pics) about the inauguration of Calatrava's bridge in Jerusalem, which is opened Wednesday. View full entry
In Abh Dhabi at the international property investment and development exhibition SMAQ's master plan for a site in Dubai was unveiled. The plan for a sustainable mixed-use development for 7000 inhabitants will be built within the next three years.Masterplan for Dubai announcedThe masterplan for... View full entry
For the high-profile crowd that turned out to celebrate a new home in Venice, Calif., the attraction wasn’t just the company and the architectural detail. The house boasted the builders’ equivalent of a three-star Michelin rating: a LEED platinum certificate. The actors John Cusack... View full entry
Moored to the elevated High Line train track and park, the tugboat silhouette of Renzo Piano's $435 million design for New York's new Whitney Museum looks poised to steam purposefully toward the nearby Hudson River. Bloomberg View full entry
According to urbandictionary.com, Vancouverising is “the act of transforming any object into a Vancouver Canucks shrine.” On behalf of the world of architecture, we beg to differ. Azure thanks Nick View full entry
A satirical response to the diminishing presence of American architecture in the news surrounding supertall towers that is highlighted by the NY Times article, Scraping the Sky, and Then Some. View full entry
The Architect's Journal reveals the first detailed pictures, including model shots, of the scheme which could save Paul Rudolph's seminal Riverview High School in Sarasota, Florida, from demolition. AJ | previously View full entry
Richard Gluckman's proposal for Gap's Don Fisher art collection discussed on KQED The Forum. Go to "listen live" or later should be archived here. View full entry
