Freedom Ship’s board of directors are canny enough to recognize tax hatred as a defining characteristic of the tradition of fantasies in which it sits. It is one of countless recent dreams of a tax-free life on the ocean wave: advocates of “seasteading” are disproportionately... View full entry
"Spain's premier architect is now embroiled in ugly row with his home town over the cause of recent flooding to the city's colossal €332m (£230m) opera house, the Palau de les Arts. Torrential rain last week damaged the palace's electrical and cooling systems, and left rehearsal areas... View full entry
Next Wednesday, Rafael Moneo's extension will be opened to the visitors after 5 years of work. It is closing an important phase for the creation of the Museo del Prado Campus, involving the extension of the Museum’s main building into the area of the Cloister of the Jerónimos... View full entry
The Telegraph reports on a towering project in the Fens. View full entry
Jaw-dropping designs for the Czech Republic’s most significant post-Communist building will be built as planned despite a huge political row, Future Systems’ director Jan Kaplicky vowed this week. BD Online | Amanda Baillieu asks , "Has Prague really moved on? Will Jan... View full entry
Zaha Hadid's proposed design for the new Middle East Centre on the campus of Oxford University has raised an alarm for the approaches aesthetic impact to the 900+ year-old institution's characteristics. OXMail View full entry
More details on Mumbai's new 24 Story Tower from the architects themselves..... Perkins + Will designed Antilia, a 24-story corporate meeting facility and private residence, now under construction in Mumbai (top). The tower features several garden levels and a trellis, which supports panels of... View full entry
Jonathan Glancye reviews Coop Himmelb(l)au's new BMW building in Munich. The verdict.... "BMW's new cathedral-like building in Munich evokes perfect German families with toothpaste smiles singing company songs". Via Guardian View full entry
Stephen Bayley reviews the new Civil Justice Centre in Manchester UK by Denton Corker Marshall... Quote.... "As a part of cityscape, the building is exhilarating, but other forms of intelligence, besides the spatial and the graphic, are evident here. Great attention has been paid to... View full entry
The government of Algeria unveil its blueprint for a new mosque in the capital, Algiers, that will have a more than 300 metre high minaret - the world's tallest - the third-largest mosque in the world facing the Bay of Algiers to hold 120,000 faithful. aruna View full entry
Students from the Technische Universität Darmstadt leaped to an early lead in the U. S. Department of Energy’s third Solar Decathlon on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., when they handily captured first place in the Architecture contest on October 15. AIArchitect | discuss View full entry
As Mayor Menino tries to move City Hall closer to the ICA, architects are imagining how to improve the brutalist building. WBUR | The Phoenix View full entry
The great Germaine Greer casts her gaze upon Ronchamp. Guardian View full entry
During the Weimar era Berlin constructed an incredibly diverse number of social housing projects to insure housing for all. Now six of these masterpieces by the likes of Walter Gropius and Bruno Taut are in contention for Unesco World Heritage status... Article Via Der Spiegel | Photo Gallery View full entry
Ed Reeve a London based Photographer built a website where he documents the construction of his prefab house. via dezain View full entry
