Olympic bosses knew the 2012 Olympics Aquatics Centre was going to blow the budget of £73m, over 3 years ago, according to front page news in The Guardian. With the cost of Hadid's building now estimated at £242m, officials always knew the original bid book cost of £73m was... View full entry
The subprime mortgage crisis hasn't bruised one chunk of the real-estate market: top vintage modern houses. This week, two midcentury classics hit the auction block. The stunning Kaufmann House in Palm Springs, Calif., designed by Richard Neutra in 1946 and the more modest 1960 Esherick... View full entry
Herzog & de Meuron have been selected to design the Kolkata Museum of Modern Art. View full entry
David Byrne has converted a building into a giant musical instrument. View full entry
London basks in sunshine but don't bother to try and sunbathe in the gardens of Buckingham Palace. You won't get in. David Barrie reviews Terry Farrell's proposals to open up the Palace and its gardens to the public. View full entry
Edwin Heathcote, the FT’s archictecture critic, visited Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Qatar to take a look at the schemes underway. FT> View full entry
Six weeks after the Metropolitan Transportation Authority selected Tishman Speyer Properties to build a vast complex of office towers, apartment buildings and parks over the railyards on the West Side of Manhattan, the deal has fallen apart. NYT | previously 1|2|3|4 View full entry
Optimism is in the air again at the Whitney Museum of American Art, which has just released a preliminary design by the Italian architect Renzo Piano for its proposed satellite museum downtown. NYT | Slideshow | Curbed View full entry
... and estimated to fetch $800,000/1.2 million! ArtDaily Artek Pavilion, "Space of Silence," is designed by internationally renowned Japanese architect Shigeru Ban, a remarkable trailblazer in applying ecological thinking to architectural design. The Artek Pavilion is an unconventional... View full entry
The report, which came just a week after the public accounts committee slammed the government for the spiralling budget of the 2012 Games, expressed its alarm that the £303m Aquatics Centre, being built by Balfour Beatty, will be more than four times more expensive than the 2004 estimate of... View full entry
Modern-day wealthy Manhattan "tycoon" looks to follow in Andrew Carnegie's footsteps by creating a mansion out of 3 brownstones in Carnegie Hill. Neighbors in an uproar over suburbanization of urban neighborhood. What I really want to know is who is the man's architect?NY TimesNeighbors are... View full entry
Turns out the Palm might be more of a blunder than a wonder... Guardian View full entry
The LA Times' Christopher Hawthorne discusses the proposed renovation to Dodger Stadium.For McCourt and his ownership group, suggesting a brand-new stadium in Chavez Ravine, even a design showpiece by Frank Gehry or Thom Mayne, would have been public-relations suicide. View full entry
Third year students at the University of Manchester have constructed a series of films during field trips to cities mainly across Europe. The brief was to film a building of their choice, portraying as much about it as possible, using as little text as possible. The films document projects by... View full entry
Ordos100 entered its second phase. 100 international architects gathered between April 11-16 in Inner-Mongolia, each with the commission to design a 1,000 square meters villa. Bert de Muynck | movingcities gives on Artforum China a short impression of the gathering in "ORDOS100: avant-garde... View full entry
