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A large 1000 unit shipping container student housing complex. Built in Amsterdam by TempoHousingVia View full entry
The Milwaukee Art Museum has pulled itself out of $30 million in debt, increased attendance, and attracted acclaimed exhibits since the internationally known Calatrava finished the structure on Milwaukee's lakefront in 2001. Boston Globe | Map of New Museums, NYT | Previous View full entry
The Wall Street Journal asks, "What's so bad about modern architecture? What is it about midcentury modernism that gets under so many people's skins?" WSJ | slide show View full entry
Just a few years ago, preservationists worried that New Canaan's collection of modernist houses, one of Connecticut's historical treasures, was in danger of destruction. But the death in 2005 of Philip Johnson and the opening of his world-famous Glass House for public tours, seems to be turning... View full entry
Global Green USA tours the first home at the Holy Cross Project today, a zero energy affordable housing development in the Holy Cross Neighborhood of New Orleans' Lower 9th Ward. workshop/apd won a design competition chaired by Brad Pitt from over 125 entries. Dozens of green products and systems... View full entry
“Today, for the first time in its history, the city has three supertall skyscrapers -- those 1,000 feet or higher -- under construction simultaneously. And owing to shifts in both physics and aesthetics, they aim to become icons of a new post-industrial, post-lunch bucket city -- less about... View full entry
As yet another space shuttle mission draws to a close, Samantha Henig asks, "Why is it taking so long to build the International Space Station? Video @ Slate View full entry
The LA Forum's "extra small Excess" architectural tours continue tomorrow, Thursday, August 16, at 7:30pm, with a visit to the Wagon Wheel School @ 653 North Cahuenga Blvd. Free for Forum members, otherwise $15. Be sure to come along! Previously discussed. View full entry
In a desperate attempt to save a brutalist theatre and one of his few remaining landmark projects from the wrecking ball, 91-year old John Johansen has initiated a letter-writing campaign from a cast of architecture celebrities.Baltimore Sun View full entry
The drive to purge the landscape of the output of an entire generation of architects is short-sighted. If we lose the bulk of our modernist architecture, as seems increasingly likely, we lose a layer of our cities and a part of ourselves. Financial Times UK | Lost Vanguard | on flickr View full entry
Arcspace reviews a digital project by Second Life architect Scope Cleaver for Princeton University. Arcspace More on virtual art galleries | virtual architecture and scale images in the Arcspace article by Scope Cleaver. View full entry
The Emmanuel Presbyterian Church, a modernist gem of architect Edward Dart, was demolished last week, exemplifying a hole in the city's safety net for preserving historic structures. Chicago Tribune | on flickr View full entry
Surrounded by acres of sun-ripening grapes, 300 dignitaries and guests convened in the Napa Valley of California last month to celebrate the long-delayed groundbreaking of the Hall Winery, designed by the architect Frank O. Gehry. NYT | previously View full entry
Amidst all the fanfare over the schemes for the SF Transbay Terminal, Beyond Chron gives us this dose of reality about high-rise development and the unchecked impact of fast tracking this project. View full entry