1.- Judge Rules Against Calatrava in Bilbao Suit. "judge Edmundo Rodríguez Achútegui recognized that Calatrava’s rights as author of the bridge had been infringed, but he ruled that the public utility of the addition took precedence over this private right" archrecord / Prev... View full entry
The NYT discusses Shigeru Ban's paper-composite footbridge, over the Gardon River in the south of France. The bridge's steps are constructed from a new material called ProFi, assembled from paper and plastic left over from the manufacture of self-adhesive labels, similar to that of his Artek... View full entry
Work on arguably the most radical office building on earth has reached a crucial point, with engineers ready to join the two leaning towers that will be the new home of China's state broadcaster. AFP View full entry
The new Duke Building at Girton College, Cambridge designed by Allies and Morrison has won another prestigious award for its high standard of architecture and design. Univ. of Cambridge View full entry
For more on the Pink Project, tune into CNN tonight. View full entry
(Press Release) - Construction work is underway on The Grand, one of the largest vertically-integrated, mixed-use projects under construction in the nation. The multi-phase 3.6 million square foot development spanning three city blocks will cost an estimated $3 billion to develop...Phase I has... View full entry
"In addition to providing a home for 450,000 square feet of restaurants, cafes, bars and hotels, and a new campus for Belfast Metropolitan College, the finished product will host a museum dedicated to the area's ship-building past. Out the front door of the museum, a vast park will perfectly mirror the slips where the Titanic and its sister ship Olympic were built."
Der Spiegel examines the current mega-redevelopment scheme that is planned for abandoned industrial area along the River Lagan...Der Spiegel View full entry
The Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart, designed by Ben van Berkel of UNStudio, has been awarded a prize by the jury of the German Architecture Prize 2007. The award ceremony of the German Architecture Prize will take place on Dec 4th 2007 in München...Photographs taken during the opening... View full entry
Glancey has this to say about Tschumi's new Acropolis Museum which was designed at least in part with the purpose of convincing the British Museum to return the Elgin Marbles.... "Whether the marbles will ever all return to Athens is a question for curators and politicians. The New Acropolis... View full entry
Has the New Museum sold itself short? NYMag | discuss I can't remember there ever being more hope and goodwill toward an art institution than there is right now for the New Museum, as it moves into its new $64 million building on the Bowery. Partly this is because the New Museum, despite having... View full entry
D-Chip loves the midwest. The St. Louis Art museum unveiled drawings for their 9,000 m^2 $125m expansion... The Board of Commissioners of the Saint Louis Art Museum today announced a $125 million capital campaign to finance the expansion of the Art Museum's historic facility in Forest Park. The... View full entry
His Verdict... Sanaa achieved success! "Poised at one edge of a city struggling to regain its creative momentum, the New Museum building embodies a leap of faith. It suggests a breathing space somewhere between the innocence of New York’s artistic past and an encroaching money-driven... View full entry
Our friends at Curbed have visited SANAA's New Museum, with documentation in both photographs and (poor quality) video. View full entry
In the planning stages for over a decade now, the U.N. renovation plan is finally set to proceed now that temporary offsite office space has been decided upon. Via NYT View full entry
An article in today's Nature.com addresses the concerns of the users of MIT's Stata Center by Frank Gehry. In case you've been under a rock for the last couple months, MIT is suing Gehry because the Stata Center is leaking (previously - 1/2/3). According to the scientists and staff at the Stata... View full entry