Has the New Museum sold itself short? NYMag | discuss I can't remember there ever being more hope and goodwill toward an art institution than there is right now for the New Museum, as it moves into its new $64 million building on the Bowery. Partly this is because the New Museum, despite having... View full entry
D-Chip loves the midwest. The St. Louis Art museum unveiled drawings for their 9,000 m^2 $125m expansion... The Board of Commissioners of the Saint Louis Art Museum today announced a $125 million capital campaign to finance the expansion of the Art Museum's historic facility in Forest Park. The... View full entry
His Verdict... Sanaa achieved success! "Poised at one edge of a city struggling to regain its creative momentum, the New Museum building embodies a leap of faith. It suggests a breathing space somewhere between the innocence of New York’s artistic past and an encroaching money-driven... View full entry
Our friends at Curbed have visited SANAA's New Museum, with documentation in both photographs and (poor quality) video. View full entry
In the planning stages for over a decade now, the U.N. renovation plan is finally set to proceed now that temporary offsite office space has been decided upon. Via NYT View full entry
An article in today's Nature.com addresses the concerns of the users of MIT's Stata Center by Frank Gehry. In case you've been under a rock for the last couple months, MIT is suing Gehry because the Stata Center is leaking (previously - 1/2/3). According to the scientists and staff at the Stata... View full entry
The Royal Ontario Museum is trying to shoo a handful of long-time hot-dog and ice-cream vendors away from its dramatically renovated building because they don't fit with its "glitzy" new image. globe & mail View full entry
The first Londoners are said to have lived in mud huts on the site marked for Zaha Hadid’s Aquatics Centre. Building.co.uk View full entry
The centrepiece of the Helix project will be two 30-metre tall horse heads, which will act as a part of a working boatlift for Scotland's lowland canal network. Guardian View full entry
His verdict... "The Grey Lady gets a punk haircut is how I would categorize it." Via link View full entry
The New York Times Building isn't just a striking new home for the paper - it's the city's best skyscraper in 40 years. Jonathan Glancey, Guardian View full entry
The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission decided yesterday that the Guggenheim should maintain the same light-gray paint shade it has had since 1992, when a major expansion of the museum by Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects was completed, rather than the original light... View full entry
Mitchell Joachim of Terreform explains the 'Fab Tree Hab' concept of growing living tree houses by molding ficus around frames, in this newly published video from the Postopolis event this summer View full entry
Italian archaeologists have found the cave, known as Lupercale, where, according to legend, a wolf suckled Romulus and Remus, the twin founders of Rome. yahoo View full entry
Steve Rose reviews Zumthors new Kolumba Art Musuem. His verdict.. "A magnificent art gallery with a ruined gothic church in the basement? Only one architect could have pulled it off." Via GuardianPreviously 1Previously 2 View full entry
