The Telegraph has created an online discussion considering the recent attack on new London highrise development by gothist-Prince Charles--who has stated the construction of more skyscrapers in London would "vandalize" the skyline. previous View full entry

Peter Slatin offers his take on developer Larry Silverstein's latest project -- a Four Seasons hotel and condo designed by Robert A.M. Stern Architects on the same block as the Woolworth Building. The Slatin Report | previously View full entry

Larry Silverstein’s plans to transform downtown into New York’s next Class-A neighborhood have long been in the works. Yesterday morning he filled in yet another piece of the puzzle when he announced that Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts has agreed to operate a hotel and condo... View full entry

Theological school in Newton builds a 'meeting house for the 21st century'. Boston Globe View full entry

Curbed LA reports on this Thursday's scheduled demolition of Frank Gehry's Santa Monica Place shopping mall, "that half-vacant, three-story, 570,000 square-foot indoor mall dangling off the ass of Third Street Promenade." View full entry

First published in Graz Architektur Magazin 03, Ästhetische Oppositionen etc. reprints Knut Birkholz critique on the representation of power in building and OMA's justifications for such project. PDF > View full entry

For every gem produced by the long-running building boom, there are even more clunkers. Chicago Tribune | Via Discussions Left Bank at K Station, 300 N. Canal St. Architect: DeStefano + Partners The name advertises Parisian grace. But this bland hulk doesn’t live up to the billing. (Tribune... View full entry

Overcome with love after a visit to Lyon, France, an entrepreneur decided to capture the magical moment by building a little Lyon — back home in Dubai. NYT View full entry

Then maybe buzzwords aren't just all hype. For the homeless in Oakland, the Crossroads could be a new beginning. NYT (earlier: S.F. Homeless Urbanism: Green and Supportive; Designing for the Homeless) View full entry

For Architectural Digest the majority of contemporary architecture remains adamant to digest-ion. So when Tadao Ando wants full exposure in the glossiness of the Digest he needs to soften the blow with glittery walls of platinum-glazed tiles by Olafur Eliasson. AD View full entry

Lynn Becker blogs about Chicago-based Studio Gang's new "earth-friendly" residential mid-rise project in Hyde Park. CA+ | discuss View full entry

Check out the green roof at the School of Art, Design and Media at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. Looks like a feature project out of a ChemLawn brochure. Inhabitat View full entry

The NYT takes on Zaha Hadid's design of the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University in East Lansing.NYT | Previous View full entry

Dancers take over Mies' Temple of Architecture, Crown Hall this January at IIT... First Crown Hall was adapted into a musical instrument and played, now it becomes a dancing machine. It's Hammer Time! NewCity View full entry

Ourossoff on the BMW Welt:The forms of the BMW Welt building appeared, and immediately rekindled my faith in architecture’s future. NYT View full entry