ArcSpace posts 3 recent projects: Frank Gehry's Science Library for Princeton, UNStudio's Agora Theater in Lelystad, and Zaha Hadid's Nordpark Cable Railway in Innsbruck. View full entry
Ambitious preservationists with mad carpenter skills and some spare change, take heed: 3847 Oakfield Dr. seems like a steal at only $819,000. Of course, it's in Sherman Oaks and perched precariously on a hill, but it sure has a great view! Hovercraft not included. View full entry
The Seattle PI asks it's readers which buildings they love and which buildings they hate. Before I read the article, I'm guessing the same buildings will be on both lists... View full entry
Confused by CCTV? Arup breaks down the construction process into 6 easy steps, via the equally accessible USA Today. View full entry
Designed by Lorcan O’Herlihy, a Los Angeles architect known for sleek single-family homes, Habitat 825 is intended to combine low-maintenance condo living with the high-concept creativity usually found only in architect-designed houses. Although it was initially opposed by many... View full entry
Rem Koolhaas is the latest starchitect slated to design a hospice for Maggie's Centre. BLDG View full entry
The Chicago Daily News Building, Holabird and Root's elegant Art Deco skyscraper from 1929, was the first building constructed over railroad air rights. With its broad graceful plaza, it was the first project not to turn its back on the Chicago River, but to embrace it. Now the Daily News... View full entry
Architect Jean Nouvel has designed an implausibly thin obelisk that would rise in crooked facets almost as high as the Empire State Building, casting some of Midtown's most prized and densely built blocks into darkness. Bloomberg | previously 1 | 2 View full entry
Detroit gets a strong new start on the New Year with the expected announcement of an iconic $150 million living, dining, shopping and entertainment complex called "Cadillac Centre" on Campus Martius Park occupying the entire Monroe Block with a connection to the existing Cadillac Tower. AJR |... View full entry
826 opens up its second Los Angeles area center, designed and built by archinector, Scott Mitchell. 826 is a "free literacy and writing center for kids that was started by author Dave Eggers in San Francisco," with centers in New York, Chicago, Ann Arbor, Seattle, and Boston. 826 is always... View full entry
In case anyone wants to call in, today at 1PM WBUR's 'Radio Boston' will have a call-in show to explore and talk about the (in)famous building and plaza. Kallmann McKinnell & Wood, the designers, will make an appearance. context:Architect's re-imagine Boston's City Hall For more info and full... View full entry
Interesting article about abandoned buildings as well as link to site showing abandoned sites by state. abandonedbutnotforgotten View full entry
"It is hard to believe that teams with this much assembled star power could come up with something so awesomely bad." -Ada Louise Huxtable for the Wall Street Journal View full entry
Now beginning its second year, the $461 million complex, known as the Carnival Center for the Performing Arts, is in administrative upheaval and struggling financially. NYT View full entry
... is a free independent alternative travel guide to East Jerusalem. It invites you to stroll around places that are hardly mentioned in conventional travel guides and aims at letting you discover some crucial aspects that the Israeli occupation, going on since 1967, brings with it. See Decode... View full entry
