On Oct. 30, King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofía of Spain will cut the ribbon on the glorious new Jerónimos Wing of the Museo del Prado. Designed by the Spanish architect Rafael Moneo, the 150-million-euro expansion finally brings this nearly 200-year-old institution into the modern... View full entry
Metal Shutter Houses , an 11-story apartment building designed by Shigeru Ban, is being built on West 19th Street in Chelsea, adjacent to Frank Gehry's IAC and just north of Jean Nouvel's 100 11th. via Curbed View full entry
From vernissage.tv 5 min. extract clip of Zumthor's speech during the opening of the museum where he talks about, historical art and contemporary art, and about his opinion on the so called "Bilbao effect". Via dezain View full entry
New York was once a city of fancy façades. Terra-cotta tiles, brownstone fronds, limestone gargoyles, cast-iron pilasters. Then came postwar modernism, which preached the sanctity of simplicity, a sermon from which we are still recovering. Richard Meier’s recent glass palazzi in the... View full entry
FCBarcelona.cat finally unveils images of the new stadium, together with a comprehensive description of the project (nothing in F&P's website yet). And a press release style article in the Guardian >image 1image 2image 3image 4image 5image 6image 7image 8image 10image 11image 12 View full entry
Marks Barfield, the visionary architects behind the London Eye, have come up trumps again bringing style to the middle of suburban Woking with a glorious, canalside arts centre. Guardian View full entry
At about one million visitors per year, FOG's Bilbao hits the decade mark. "The swooping form began showing up everywhere, from car ads to MTV rap videos, like architectural bling." | nytimes View full entry
An influential developer plans an enormous skyscraper at the edge of the city’s giant central park. A celebrity architect is commissioned, and the ambitious mayor unveils the proposal at city hall. - Instantly, the prospective tower’s largely genteel neighbors rise up in arms. NYT |... View full entry
In the capital's increasingly overcrowded and overdeveloped landscape, the only way is down. Jonathan Glancey reports on the ingenious expansion of an inner-city school. Guardian View full entry
It is said that modern architecture died July 15, 1972, at 3:32 p.m. - the precise moment demolition experts set off a series of dynamite charges inside the Pruitt-Igoe housing projects in St. Louis. The Morning News View full entry
Now that closings are in full-swing at Ian Schrager's recently revealed 40 Bond, the sad truth has become all too clear: Some buyers are just looking to profit off of 40 Bond, instead of making the trippy acid palace their superultraluxufabulous dream home! Curbed | related View full entry
A Chicago museum calls on old-style political muscle to win its gambit to insert a new 100,000 square foot building on the city lakefront that A. Montgomery Ward fought a twelve-year battle to save a century ago. Read all about it and see the pictures here. View full entry
In the Sunday Times Travel section - Sipping From a Utopian Well in the Desert View full entry
Currently at 150 storeys the $900 million Burj Dubai, tower is now the world's tallest free-standing structure, surpassing the CN Tower in Toronto. Approximately 5,000 consultants and construction workers are employed on site. Gulf News | Katodrytis View full entry
In this short animation by Cristóbal Vila, you see how the house was built, showing its internal structure and offering points of view not so well known that really helps to understand the volume of the house. View full entry