An interesting set of pictures of the inside of the Bird's Nest - a really Piranesian space. (via) View full entry

The Tower of Pisa is being challenged by a lesser-known 12th-century building in the northern Dutch town of Bedum as Europe's most steeply leaning tower. Reuters View full entry

A visit to Clive Wilkinson's new pad. "I wanted to make the house so beautiful ‘that girls would forget my innumerable failings.’ ” NYT View full entry

Jimmy Stamp from Life Without Buildings is discussing the demolition of Modernist Schools in New Orleans...29 of 30 schools built in the 50s have been closed and will soon be demolished unless the city makes changes to its current plan. It would be a shame to lose these astounding buildings, and... View full entry

Grand Olympic building projects more often than not become expensive burdens to host cities once the Games are over. Guardian View full entry

A team of investigators at the National Institute of Standards and Technoloy released a report yesterday that found the cause of the collapse of World Trade Center 7 to be structural fires and not an explosion or a fuel fire from the diesel-powered back-up generators. Whether this puts the... View full entry

Usually the Archinect forum is quick to resolve a building's identity, but member johnszot has us all stumped with his search for an ultra minimalist Japanese museum originally spotted in Archinect's news feed. A free t-shirt to whoever helps him figure it out! seeking ID on japanese museum (?) View full entry

The Bodleian Library has recently been awarded a grant of over £500,000 by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to ensure the preservation and accessibility of digital personal papers – the contemporary versions of manuscripts created by politicians, writers, scientists and intellectuals... View full entry

P.S. 1, in Long Island City, Queens, has been hosting its weekly summer dance-party series, Warm Up Saturdays, for 10 years. This year, instead of the usual urban beach-themed décor, the courtyard has been transformed into an urban farm: 260 cardboard cylinders, from waist-height to... View full entry

Paul Goldberger's review of the overhall at 2 Columbus Circle."Ultimately, Cloepfil has been trapped between paying homage to a legendary building and making something of his own. As a result... the building’s proportions and composition seem just as odd and awkward as they ever did." View full entry

Northumberland's glorious new timber observatory fits beautifully into its forest surroundings. Jonathan Glancey took along his telescope. View full entry

With his design for the Serpentine Pavilion, Frank Gehry goes for broke. NYT View full entry

The Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Palmer House in Ann Arbor, Michigan, acclaimed by historians as one of the architect’s best residential projects, has been put up for sale by the family of the original owners. The asking price is $1.5 million. ArchRecord View full entry

Plans for the City of London are looking like a salad, perhaps that is the subliminal inspiration for the nicknames attached to its buildings. We have the gherkin, the cheese grater and now the can of ham. Building >> View full entry

Some new images of a hotel, conference and exhibition complex by Norwegian architects Snøhetta, in the emirate of Ras Al-Khaimah, United Arab Emirates. Dezeen | Previous View full entry