More details on Mumbai's new 24 Story Tower from the architects themselves..... Perkins + Will designed Antilia, a 24-story corporate meeting facility and private residence, now under construction in Mumbai (top). The tower features several garden levels and a trellis, which supports panels of... View full entry
Jonathan Glancye reviews Coop Himmelb(l)au's new BMW building in Munich. The verdict.... "BMW's new cathedral-like building in Munich evokes perfect German families with toothpaste smiles singing company songs". Via Guardian View full entry
Stephen Bayley reviews the new Civil Justice Centre in Manchester UK by Denton Corker Marshall... Quote.... "As a part of cityscape, the building is exhilarating, but other forms of intelligence, besides the spatial and the graphic, are evident here. Great attention has been paid to... View full entry
The government of Algeria unveil its blueprint for a new mosque in the capital, Algiers, that will have a more than 300 metre high minaret - the world's tallest - the third-largest mosque in the world facing the Bay of Algiers to hold 120,000 faithful. aruna View full entry
Students from the Technische Universität Darmstadt leaped to an early lead in the U. S. Department of Energy’s third Solar Decathlon on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., when they handily captured first place in the Architecture contest on October 15. AIArchitect | discuss View full entry
As Mayor Menino tries to move City Hall closer to the ICA, architects are imagining how to improve the brutalist building. WBUR | The Phoenix View full entry
The great Germaine Greer casts her gaze upon Ronchamp. Guardian View full entry
During the Weimar era Berlin constructed an incredibly diverse number of social housing projects to insure housing for all. Now six of these masterpieces by the likes of Walter Gropius and Bruno Taut are in contention for Unesco World Heritage status... Article Via Der Spiegel | Photo Gallery View full entry
Ed Reeve a London based Photographer built a website where he documents the construction of his prefab house. via dezain View full entry
Munich has another attraction besides the Octoberfest. BMW celebrates the opening of their BMW Welt (BMW World) designed by Austrian Coop Himmelb(l)au. AutoWeek | Spiegel (German) | Official BMW Welt website View full entry
There can be few prouder homeowners in Sao Paulo than Estevao Silva da Conceicao, who has spent more than two decades building a house that has become his lifelong passion. BBC View full entry
With its work on headquarters for companies such as Bloomberg and Barry Diller's IAC gaining worldwide plaudits, Studios Architecture is on a roll. BusinessWeek View full entry
Robert Ransick has completed a 6 month Residency at Eyebeam developing Casa Segura, a humanitarian shelter-like beacon structure for migrants crossing the Sonoran desert from Mexico into Arizona. Check it out at wmmna. Thanks Reg! View full entry
Tschumi's Acropolis Museum is starting to fill with the remaining sculptures that adorn the citadel at the center of Athens. In all 4,500 antiquities will be moved into the new museum--will the Elgin Marbles follow? Guardian l previous View full entry
For the last five years, archaeologists from the Vietnam Institute of Archaeology have been slowly unearthing the remains of Thang Long, uncovering millions of artifacts and building features spanning 1,300 years. Hanoi is gearing up to celebrate its 1,000th anniversary in 2010, and Thang Long, a... View full entry