Dan Paluska and Jeff Lieberman have created the "Absolut Quartet", an "automated multi-instrumental orchestral machine..." Currently on display in New York at 186 Orchard Street. Make: And check out the project's homepage at:Absolute Machines View full entry

Density Fields, an installation by Oyler Wu Collaborative is set to come down on March 1. Located at Materials and Applications, the “extreme cantilever” is made of a delicate combination of welded aluminum and polypropylene rope in Silver Lake (Los Angeles). Having hovered over the... View full entry

The Caixa Forum, a major cultural centre in Madrid designed by Herzog & de Meuron, was opened this week by the king and queen of Spain. Photos @ BDOnline View full entry

The Queens Botanical Garden's newly opened $14 million visitors’ center and administration building, designed by BKSK Architects, is on deck to receive a Platinum LEED rating, making it one of the city’s first structures in that exalted category. Moreover, two years after the passage... View full entry

Nicolai on the new MOMA show: "As revolutionary in its own way as MoMA’s “Machine Art” exhibition of 1934, which introduced Modern design to a generation of Americans, the exhibition is packed with individual works of sublime beauty. Like that earlier show, it is shaped by an... View full entry

"A mess" is how architect Renzo Piano described LACMA in 2001, when he was initially asked to compete for the chance to improve the museum's disjointed six-building agglomeration and add contemporary art galleries. Last weekend, the museum's relatively modest Piano-designed Broad Contemporary Art... View full entry

Alison Brooks ' Salt House responds to rising sea levels. | indpndt View full entry

A Gehry-designed guest house, located in Lake Minnetonka MN, is being donated to St. Thomas’ Daniel C. Gainey Conference Center. The move will take place this year. Read View full entry

Bidoun waxes on the icon: "There are only so many ways to riff on the image of the World Trade Center." View full entry

Architect and community activist David M. Hamilton writes an op-ed voicing his concern over the demolition of MSME's Buckhead Library. AJC | previously | discussAtlanta is a young, big city. First and foremost, it is a place that aspires to be known as both progressive and hip. It is a beacon of... View full entry

Edwin Heathcote of the Financial Times offers his take on Renzo Piano's addition to LACMA. David Byrne (of Talking Heads fame) tells us about BCAM's opening gala (thanks for the heads up, FOG Lite). Financial Times | David Byrne Journal | previously View full entry

Apparently Morphosis's new Federal Building's technologies and design are so advanced that they don't even rate within the LEED points system. Therefore, the firm's buildings is not eligible for even base LEED award at this time. UGBC responds that the LEED system is a work in progress and that... View full entry

40’ : 90’ : 288’ + 47’ : 57’ : 237’ = ! J3 is from Algeria, written by John Devlin. journal3 View full entry

Designed by Renzo Piano, the new addition to LACMA takes a mostly pragmatic approach to the site, giving it a clarity that it desperately needed. His top-floor galleries, which take advantage of the exquisite California sunlight, will no doubt thrill those whose main focus is how a museum’s... View full entry

Architecture Plus points to a lecture by Jeanne Gang at USC, which having in the past seen lectures at multiple locations is perhaps the typical stump lecture given at multiple locations. But shouldn't lectures be more about the questions after? View full entry