Building Design spearheads a campaign to save Peter and Alison Smithson's Robin Hood Gardens housing estate threatened by planned demolition. Simon Smithson (son of Smiithsons) joins the fight. View full entry
An Associated Press article published by The New York Times a couple of months ago told us that the Elysian and Silver Lake, “two reservoirs that supply drinking water” to sections of Los Angeles, were found to contain “high levels of the carcinogen bromate.” When alerted... View full entry
Tenders are expected for the 1,600 meter tall tower, as reported last week, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The estimated $10b project is believed to be realized by the UK's Hyder Consulting (developer) and Arup (engineering), with SA's Omrania as project architect and US-based Bechtel as construction... View full entry
Steven Holl Architects (SHA) has recently been commissioned by CapitaLand China, to realize, a large mixed-use complex in Chengdu, China. Scheduled to open in late 2010, this “giant chunk of a metropolis” houses a hybrid complex of generous public spaces flanked by five towers with... View full entry
Even as it celebrates the 40th anniversary of the city's landmarks ordinance, the Commission on Chicago Landmarks not only continues to leave many of Chicago's most essential buildings unprotected, it's upending the very definition of what a landmark building is. Read all about it, and see all... View full entry
With the controversy in Atlanta over the demolition of the MSME designed Buckhead Library, this item seems particularly interesting. View full entry
Dan Paluska and Jeff Lieberman have created the "Absolut Quartet", an "automated multi-instrumental orchestral machine..." Currently on display in New York at 186 Orchard Street. Make: And check out the project's homepage at:Absolute Machines View full entry
Density Fields, an installation by Oyler Wu Collaborative is set to come down on March 1. Located at Materials and Applications, the “extreme cantilever” is made of a delicate combination of welded aluminum and polypropylene rope in Silver Lake (Los Angeles). Having hovered over the... View full entry
The Caixa Forum, a major cultural centre in Madrid designed by Herzog & de Meuron, was opened this week by the king and queen of Spain. Photos @ BDOnline View full entry
The Queens Botanical Garden's newly opened $14 million visitors’ center and administration building, designed by BKSK Architects, is on deck to receive a Platinum LEED rating, making it one of the city’s first structures in that exalted category. Moreover, two years after the passage... View full entry
Nicolai on the new MOMA show: "As revolutionary in its own way as MoMA’s “Machine Art” exhibition of 1934, which introduced Modern design to a generation of Americans, the exhibition is packed with individual works of sublime beauty. Like that earlier show, it is shaped by an... View full entry
"A mess" is how architect Renzo Piano described LACMA in 2001, when he was initially asked to compete for the chance to improve the museum's disjointed six-building agglomeration and add contemporary art galleries. Last weekend, the museum's relatively modest Piano-designed Broad Contemporary Art... View full entry
Alison Brooks ' Salt House responds to rising sea levels. | indpndt View full entry
A Gehry-designed guest house, located in Lake Minnetonka MN, is being donated to St. Thomas’ Daniel C. Gainey Conference Center. The move will take place this year. Read View full entry
Bidoun waxes on the icon: "There are only so many ways to riff on the image of the World Trade Center." View full entry
