Six weeks after the Metropolitan Transportation Authority selected Tishman Speyer Properties to build a vast complex of office towers, apartment buildings and parks over the railyards on the West Side of Manhattan, the deal has fallen apart. NYT | previously 1|2|3|4 View full entry
Optimism is in the air again at the Whitney Museum of American Art, which has just released a preliminary design by the Italian architect Renzo Piano for its proposed satellite museum downtown. NYT | Slideshow | Curbed View full entry
... and estimated to fetch $800,000/1.2 million! ArtDaily Artek Pavilion, "Space of Silence," is designed by internationally renowned Japanese architect Shigeru Ban, a remarkable trailblazer in applying ecological thinking to architectural design. The Artek Pavilion is an unconventional... View full entry
The report, which came just a week after the public accounts committee slammed the government for the spiralling budget of the 2012 Games, expressed its alarm that the £303m Aquatics Centre, being built by Balfour Beatty, will be more than four times more expensive than the 2004 estimate of... View full entry
Modern-day wealthy Manhattan "tycoon" looks to follow in Andrew Carnegie's footsteps by creating a mansion out of 3 brownstones in Carnegie Hill. Neighbors in an uproar over suburbanization of urban neighborhood. What I really want to know is who is the man's architect?NY TimesNeighbors are... View full entry
Turns out the Palm might be more of a blunder than a wonder... Guardian View full entry
The LA Times' Christopher Hawthorne discusses the proposed renovation to Dodger Stadium.For McCourt and his ownership group, suggesting a brand-new stadium in Chavez Ravine, even a design showpiece by Frank Gehry or Thom Mayne, would have been public-relations suicide. View full entry
Third year students at the University of Manchester have constructed a series of films during field trips to cities mainly across Europe. The brief was to film a building of their choice, portraying as much about it as possible, using as little text as possible. The films document projects by... View full entry
Ordos100 entered its second phase. 100 international architects gathered between April 11-16 in Inner-Mongolia, each with the commission to design a 1,000 square meters villa. Bert de Muynck | movingcities gives on Artforum China a short impression of the gathering in "ORDOS100: avant-garde... View full entry
Milan_ Domus posts a critical article indicating that Libeskind relies once again on an impressive array of stereotypes in order to enshrine the vision that inspired the museum project. Domusweb (needs registration) "Where was the city? Where and when was any debate held on such a major... View full entry
It appears there is actually a critic out there who doesn't like the New Museum. (And no, I'm not talking about all your friends that hated the UnMonumental show.) I mean, you know it's gonna be a bloodbath when the review begins, "To build a building is hard; to criticize a building is, by... View full entry
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) and its Committee on the Environment (COTE) have selected the top ten examples of sustainable architecture and green design solutions that protect and enhance the environment. The projects will be honored at the AIA 2008 National Convention and Design... View full entry
This is actually not new, but I couldn't find any trace of it on Archinect. A bookstore inside a former Dominican church received the Lensvelt de Architect Interior Prize 2007. Via Dezeen and more photos in Flickr View full entry
The sloping marble roof of the Oslo opera house may be perfect for snowboarding. But, for Jonathan Glancey, the warm heart of this stunning building is just as thrilling.Guardian View full entry
The “contextualists” have it all wrong: Jean Nouvel’s beast is exactly what 53rd Street needs. nymag View full entry
