For the high-profile crowd that turned out to celebrate a new home in Venice, Calif., the attraction wasn’t just the company and the architectural detail. The house boasted the builders’ equivalent of a three-star Michelin rating: a LEED platinum certificate. The actors John Cusack... View full entry
Moored to the elevated High Line train track and park, the tugboat silhouette of Renzo Piano's $435 million design for New York's new Whitney Museum looks poised to steam purposefully toward the nearby Hudson River. Bloomberg View full entry
According to urbandictionary.com, Vancouverising is “the act of transforming any object into a Vancouver Canucks shrine.” On behalf of the world of architecture, we beg to differ. Azure thanks Nick View full entry
A satirical response to the diminishing presence of American architecture in the news surrounding supertall towers that is highlighted by the NY Times article, Scraping the Sky, and Then Some. View full entry
The Architect's Journal reveals the first detailed pictures, including model shots, of the scheme which could save Paul Rudolph's seminal Riverview High School in Sarasota, Florida, from demolition. AJ | previously View full entry
Richard Gluckman's proposal for Gap's Don Fisher art collection discussed on KQED The Forum. Go to "listen live" or later should be archived here. View full entry
The building may or may not be a masterpiece, but the debate over demolishing Riverview High School has become a classic of its kind. Next week, the Sarasota County School Board says it will deliver its final decision on the fate of the old school, designed by Paul Rudolph 50 years ago and... View full entry
Images of a renovation project by dutch firm UNStudio. Ben van Berkel transformed a former post office building into a shopping mall and hotel. Go View full entry
Not really a news item but a movie about the construction of a spartan shelter for hikers and mountaineers at 2,400 m above sea level in the Zillertal Alps. More movies at Detail.de View full entry
An online war is pitting some of the biggest names in world architecture against each other in a bid to influence the French Minister of Culture over the future of Le Corbusier’s world famous Ronchamp chapel. BD | 1 | 2Cesar Pelli, Richard Meier and Rafael Moneo are among the signatories of... View full entry
"As quake survivors take refuge in tarp tents across Sichuan Province, a Beijing-based nongovernmental organization is pushing a home-grown, quake-resistant housing solution: bamboo." csm / inbar [related: The Organic Alternative; Bamboo and rope] View full entry
Currently on display at the Cranbrook Museum of Art in Michigan is Bill Massie's American House '08 - "a work of art and future home all in one project that blends 21st century concepts of environmental sustainability with modernist forms and shapes popular during the 1950s." Chicago Tribune The... View full entry
Memorial for gays persecuted by Nazis opens in Berlin. The memorial will consist of a grey rectangular block some four meters tall. One side will have a small opening through which viewers will see a black and white art film scene of two men kissing. "A simple kiss could land you in trouble,"... View full entry
The Glass House, an austere glass-and-concrete confection in New Canaan, Conn., that Philip Johnson called his “little jewel box,” faces the prospect of demolition. NYT View full entry
Pei Cobb Freed and FXFowle unveil new plans for a hospital and condo development in Greenwich Village. The project had been previously dismissed by the Landmarks Preservation Commission because it would destroy one of Albert C. Ledner's distinctive maritime-themed buildings. The Architect's... View full entry
