Indoor Weather Creation - Stuttgart's Mercedes-Benz Museum created the world's largest man-made tornado on Monday in its 42-meter-high atrium. The tornado measured 34.43 meters (113 feet) tall. Via Der Spiegel View full entry
One 7th , a 5-story mixed-use development designed by Rogers Marvel Architects, is currently under construction at the 45 degree intersection of 7th Avenue South and Carmine Street in Chelsea. NYSun | via Curbed | related 1 | 2 View full entry
"The new ICA, designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro, is lovely and practical, despite being situated in an area of Boston that is a weird urban wasteland. From what is called the backside, which is actually the main entrance, the building is nondescript, except for the glowing translucent plastic... View full entry
With the restoration of the NY Guggenheim coming to an end, the issue of painting the museum in the off-white color that everyone is familiar with or in its original buff yellow is creating a heated debate > View full entry
Architect Robert A.M. Stern is coming to the financial district. Larry Silverstein announced this morning that Mr. Stern will design 99 Church Street, his new luxury condo and residential project in Lower Manhattan. Observer View full entry
Simon Jenkins : "If David Hockney were to paint over a Constable, the work would still be appreciable as a Hockney. It is in this spirit that I appreciate the Gherkin. It is undeniably beautiful, indeed wonderful, perhaps the finest commercial tower in the world."The Guardian's Great Modern... View full entry
By coupling indigenous techniques and materials with modern design technologies and aesthetics Gianni Botsford Architects has created this intimate double pavilion for a writer in Costa Rica. GBA | via 2modern View full entry
The development will include a public viewing platform at 100 metres, a hotel, retail, residential accommodation including affordable housing and U2's recording studio. Reuters View full entry
Carnegie Hall — with its Weill Recital Hall and Weill Music Institute — has long benefited from the largess of Sanford I. Weill, its chairman. The modern Carnegie Hall sometimes seems like the House That Weill Built. Now that slogan rings truer than ever. The architecture firm of Mr... View full entry
Whether you have business in Brussels, a lunch date in Paris or are simply keen to avoid airport hell, whether you are a railway buff, an engineer, curious shopper, architectural historian or a Friday-evening champagne Charlie, the new-look St Pancras is very likely to suit you. Here is a gothic... View full entry
The Banff Centre got a major boost Saturday with up to $15 million in federal funding, bringing fund raisers close enough to their goal to begin construction of the Kinnear Centre for Creativity and Innovation. cbc.ca View full entry
Paul has been treated so badly,” says a woman whose Manhattan apartment was designed by Paul Rudolph, the Kentucky-born architect. She is referring to the indifference, and worse, that has greeted much of Rudolph’s architecture in the last three decades. NYT | Slideshow View full entry
Olafur Eliasson together with Hans Ulrich Obrist will convene the second installment of the Serpentine Gallery's "legendary" 24-Hour Experiment Marathon from 13 to 14 October--This years series explores a wide variety of experiments exploring perception, artificial intelligence, the body and... View full entry
Sketch Pad focuses on an apartment, house, loft or shack now for sale that has unrealized potential. Each month, a different architect or designer is asked to create a vision of what the place might look like. There are no guarantees that the plans would be approved by co-op boards, municipal... View full entry
In a country ground down by poverty, newly ravaged by floods, and living under military rule, Louis Kahn's masterwork, the National Assembly of Bangladesh, remains a monumental meditation on humanity, with the power to move both body and mind. Globe & Mail View full entry