For Architectural Digest the majority of contemporary architecture remains adamant to digest-ion. So when Tadao Ando wants full exposure in the glossiness of the Digest he needs to soften the blow with glittery walls of platinum-glazed tiles by Olafur Eliasson. AD View full entry
Lynn Becker blogs about Chicago-based Studio Gang's new "earth-friendly" residential mid-rise project in Hyde Park. CA+ | discuss View full entry
Check out the green roof at the School of Art, Design and Media at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. Looks like a feature project out of a ChemLawn brochure. Inhabitat View full entry
The NYT takes on Zaha Hadid's design of the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University in East Lansing.NYT | Previous View full entry
Dancers take over Mies' Temple of Architecture, Crown Hall this January at IIT... First Crown Hall was adapted into a musical instrument and played, now it becomes a dancing machine. It's Hammer Time! NewCity View full entry
Ourossoff on the BMW Welt:The forms of the BMW Welt building appeared, and immediately rekindled my faith in architecture’s future. NYT View full entry
ArcSpace posts 3 recent projects: Frank Gehry's Science Library for Princeton, UNStudio's Agora Theater in Lelystad, and Zaha Hadid's Nordpark Cable Railway in Innsbruck. View full entry
Ambitious preservationists with mad carpenter skills and some spare change, take heed: 3847 Oakfield Dr. seems like a steal at only $819,000. Of course, it's in Sherman Oaks and perched precariously on a hill, but it sure has a great view! Hovercraft not included. View full entry
The Seattle PI asks it's readers which buildings they love and which buildings they hate. Before I read the article, I'm guessing the same buildings will be on both lists... View full entry
Confused by CCTV? Arup breaks down the construction process into 6 easy steps, via the equally accessible USA Today. View full entry
Designed by Lorcan O’Herlihy, a Los Angeles architect known for sleek single-family homes, Habitat 825 is intended to combine low-maintenance condo living with the high-concept creativity usually found only in architect-designed houses. Although it was initially opposed by many... View full entry
Rem Koolhaas is the latest starchitect slated to design a hospice for Maggie's Centre. BLDG View full entry
The Chicago Daily News Building, Holabird and Root's elegant Art Deco skyscraper from 1929, was the first building constructed over railroad air rights. With its broad graceful plaza, it was the first project not to turn its back on the Chicago River, but to embrace it. Now the Daily News... View full entry
Architect Jean Nouvel has designed an implausibly thin obelisk that would rise in crooked facets almost as high as the Empire State Building, casting some of Midtown's most prized and densely built blocks into darkness. Bloomberg | previously 1 | 2 View full entry
Detroit gets a strong new start on the New Year with the expected announcement of an iconic $150 million living, dining, shopping and entertainment complex called "Cadillac Centre" on Campus Martius Park occupying the entire Monroe Block with a connection to the existing Cadillac Tower. AJR |... View full entry
