The $400 million complex, a concert hall, opera house and theater under one space age span, is designed to be the center of Chinese culture, just as Tiananmen Square next door was designated this country’s political center. Yet the center, designed by the French architect Paul Andreu, has... View full entry

New York has recently witnessed the unveiling of nearly half a dozen major architectural landmarks, an abundance the city hasn’t seen in decades. NYT View full entry

City and state officials announced Wednesday that the design — by the Dutch firm West 8, Diller Scofidio & Renfro, Rogers Marvel Architects, Quennell Rothschild & Partners and SMWM — had triumphed in a competition that had narrowed to five finalists. NYT listen View full entry

Christopher Hawthorne revisits the Getty center and finds that it....LAtimes was widely seen as an anomaly in Los Angeles, an effort to lend instant, old-fashioned respectability to an institution that craved it. Then, after it opened Dec. 16, 1997, the Getty surprised usby fitting in. And in the... View full entry

From the book Meydan Shopping Square Ein neuer Prototyp von FOA A Metro Group project in Istanbul. Jovis Verlag (in a PDF) / Previously View full entry

Wired Magazine looks at Shigeru Ban's first US residential project, Metal Shutter Houses in NY. They write, "Modern architects are obsessed with bringing the outside in, but they usually settle for illusion (great big glass walls are, after all, still walls). Japan's Shigeru Ban settles for... View full entry

1.- Judge Rules Against Calatrava in Bilbao Suit. "judge Edmundo Rodríguez Achútegui recognized that Calatrava’s rights as author of the bridge had been infringed, but he ruled that the public utility of the addition took precedence over this private right" archrecord / Prev... View full entry

The NYT discusses Shigeru Ban's paper-composite footbridge, over the Gardon River in the south of France. The bridge's steps are constructed from a new material called ProFi, assembled from paper and plastic left over from the manufacture of self-adhesive labels, similar to that of his Artek... View full entry

Work on arguably the most radical office building on earth has reached a crucial point, with engineers ready to join the two leaning towers that will be the new home of China's state broadcaster. AFP View full entry

The new Duke Building at Girton College, Cambridge designed by Allies and Morrison has won another prestigious award for its high standard of architecture and design. Univ. of Cambridge View full entry

For more on the Pink Project, tune into CNN tonight. View full entry

(Press Release) - Construction work is underway on The Grand, one of the largest vertically-integrated, mixed-use projects under construction in the nation. The multi-phase 3.6 million square foot development spanning three city blocks will cost an estimated $3 billion to develop...Phase I has... View full entry

Der Spiegel examines the current mega-redevelopment scheme that is planned for abandoned industrial area along the River Lagan...Der Spiegel View full entry

The Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart, designed by Ben van Berkel of UNStudio, has been awarded a prize by the jury of the German Architecture Prize 2007. The award ceremony of the German Architecture Prize will take place on Dec 4th 2007 in München...Photographs taken during the opening... View full entry

Glancey has this to say about Tschumi's new Acropolis Museum which was designed at least in part with the purpose of convincing the British Museum to return the Elgin Marbles.... "Whether the marbles will ever all return to Athens is a question for curators and politicians. The New Acropolis... View full entry