The Royal Ontario Museum is trying to shoo a handful of long-time hot-dog and ice-cream vendors away from its dramatically renovated building because they don't fit with its "glitzy" new image. globe & mail View full entry
The first Londoners are said to have lived in mud huts on the site marked for Zaha Hadid’s Aquatics Centre. Building.co.uk View full entry
The centrepiece of the Helix project will be two 30-metre tall horse heads, which will act as a part of a working boatlift for Scotland's lowland canal network. Guardian View full entry
His verdict... "The Grey Lady gets a punk haircut is how I would categorize it." Via link View full entry
The New York Times Building isn't just a striking new home for the paper - it's the city's best skyscraper in 40 years. Jonathan Glancey, Guardian View full entry
The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission decided yesterday that the Guggenheim should maintain the same light-gray paint shade it has had since 1992, when a major expansion of the museum by Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects was completed, rather than the original light... View full entry
Mitchell Joachim of Terreform explains the 'Fab Tree Hab' concept of growing living tree houses by molding ficus around frames, in this newly published video from the Postopolis event this summer View full entry
Italian archaeologists have found the cave, known as Lupercale, where, according to legend, a wolf suckled Romulus and Remus, the twin founders of Rome. yahoo View full entry
Steve Rose reviews Zumthors new Kolumba Art Musuem. His verdict.. "A magnificent art gallery with a ruined gothic church in the basement? Only one architect could have pulled it off." Via GuardianPreviously 1Previously 2 View full entry
Rebuilding Beijing: pure geometry versus the awkward squad Although Beijing is as big as you expect -a dauntingly gridlocked, teeming, dust-laden bigness- it is only the third largest city in China. It trails behind Guangzhou and Shanghai. But as the capital most likely to take over from... View full entry
Dezeen has published 18 different renderings of Ateliers Jean Nouvel's proposed 75-story gallery/hotel/condo tower that go way above and beyond the little NY Times tease unleashed on the world yesterday. Also, Dezeen points out that developer Hines has already set up a 53 West 53rd Street... View full entry
The finger-pointing has already begun in response to a lawsuit filed by MIT against Frank Gehry’s firm, Gehry Partners, and general contractor Skanska USA. ArchRecord | previously | discuss 1 | 2 The suit claims that Gehry and Skanska committed design and construction failures on the... View full entry
Some of Croydon's best-known landmarks could disappear as part of ambitious plans unveiled by a leading British architect (Will Alsop) to transform the town centre from an urban concrete jungle to a cosmopolitan oasis. Croyden Guardian View full entry
At Billy Graham Library, opened last spring, the man and the message are one and the same. The library was built for $27 million and features 40,000-square-foot exhibition space. Via NYT View full entry
Paul Goldberger makes a fair argument for SANAA's New Museum of Contemporary Art: Sejima and Nishizawa have designed a building that is just right for this moment of the Bowery’s existence...[They] have a way of combining intensity with understatement. The New Yorker | via Curbed |... View full entry