Madison Square Garden executives unveiled plans on Thursday for a $500 million, top-to-bottom renovation of the aging arena, including the creation of a sunlit entryway off Seventh Avenue, the installation of luxury suites closer to the floor and better views of the action, even from the last row... View full entry
It’s a 46-story skyscraper being built on a graveyard that’s brought together shadowy Russians and a billionaire brand name to attract internationals in a zoning-skirting scheme that’s enraged the neighborhood, sent glass shattering to the street, and killed a construction... View full entry
The 'ground zero' world trade center memorial has moved into CA as the contract for the concrete work has been awarded all for the price of $103.9 million to Navillus Contracting, together with Bovis Lend Lease. Let the job site meetings begin!!! The steel contract has also been awarded. $... View full entry
Louis I. Kahn’s Margaret Esherick House, completed in 1961 in the Chestnut Hill section of Philadelphia, and county-appraised in 2006 at about $300,000, went on the auction block May 18. Richard Wright, the president of the auction house, expects it to fetch $2 to $3 million. AIArchitect View full entry
EEK Architects' design vision for Bawadi Park is to create a walkable "micro-city" where buildings and public spaces are seamlessly interwoven in a single network. More info and video after the jump... The design concentrates a significant level of built development along the perimeter of a... View full entry
"What if Hitler and his helpers had been successful in their aggressive striving for world power? A new exhibition in Berlin attempts to answer this question in part by looking at the devastating architectural consequences Hitler's success would have had for the German capital."Time | Spiegel View full entry
Stuck on the lawn in front of Watford Grammar School for Boys, Tim Ronalds Architects' new music school, a geometric modern pavilion, stands as if cut from a primer of the best new British architecture. the guardian View full entry
Modernists are appalled, but neoclassic architecture is staging a comeback. Latest evidence: an ersatz Arc de Triomphe in Atlanta, Georgia. Forbes + Slideshow View full entry
The Guardian discusses OMA's planned restoration of London's Commonwealth Institute. View full entry
"Egg" is not a flattering epithet in Chinese, being attached to various insults such as ben dan (stupid egg) and huai dan (rotten egg). (There is no "good egg" in Chinese slang.) LATimes View full entry
The architecture studio A-cero, directed by Joaquin Torres, presents a new project for a residential tower in Dubai’s Madinat Al Arab district, a sector designated to become the new downtown and business district of this vibrant city. The new 20 floor tower is located on the coastline, in a... View full entry
Gehry Partners/ Forest City Ratner's $4 billion Atlantic Yards project in Brooklyn may get some schedule, phasing, or scope changes. NYT Ourossoff's take here: link View full entry
Arthouse, an Austin nonprofit with the mission of promoting the growth and appreciation of contemporary art and artists in Texas, formally unveiled their renovation plans at a news conference earlier today. Designed by New York City's Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis, the renovation will triple the usable... View full entry
Can Frank Lloyd Wright's Ennis House--heavily damaged in the 1994 Northridge earthquake--be restored and reopened? Not if the neighbors have something to say about it. The Architect's Newspaper. View full entry
Surfing is occasionally a slow process, and after a long journey I deliver this wonderful critique on Witold Rybczynski’s semi-recent article on the fate of the public library from biblioklept to reinterpret the previous discussion. View full entry
