Whether you have business in Brussels, a lunch date in Paris or are simply keen to avoid airport hell, whether you are a railway buff, an engineer, curious shopper, architectural historian or a Friday-evening champagne Charlie, the new-look St Pancras is very likely to suit you. Here is a gothic... View full entry
The Banff Centre got a major boost Saturday with up to $15 million in federal funding, bringing fund raisers close enough to their goal to begin construction of the Kinnear Centre for Creativity and Innovation. cbc.ca View full entry
Paul has been treated so badly,” says a woman whose Manhattan apartment was designed by Paul Rudolph, the Kentucky-born architect. She is referring to the indifference, and worse, that has greeted much of Rudolph’s architecture in the last three decades. NYT | Slideshow View full entry
Olafur Eliasson together with Hans Ulrich Obrist will convene the second installment of the Serpentine Gallery's "legendary" 24-Hour Experiment Marathon from 13 to 14 October--This years series explores a wide variety of experiments exploring perception, artificial intelligence, the body and... View full entry
Sketch Pad focuses on an apartment, house, loft or shack now for sale that has unrealized potential. Each month, a different architect or designer is asked to create a vision of what the place might look like. There are no guarantees that the plans would be approved by co-op boards, municipal... View full entry
In a country ground down by poverty, newly ravaged by floods, and living under military rule, Louis Kahn's masterwork, the National Assembly of Bangladesh, remains a monumental meditation on humanity, with the power to move both body and mind. Globe & Mail View full entry
Seems like Foster's protégé beat him to the Stirling Prize. David Chipperfield takes the 2007 award View full entry
At 50 paces, an off-the-rack knockoff and an expensive, bespoke garment look the same. The differences become apparent up close, as you examine the stitching and rub the fabric between your fingers. Architect Garth Norbraten's Leslieville house is like that, although even at 50 paces you can tell... View full entry
Daniel Libeskind's new Michael Lee-Chin Crystal at the Royal Ontario Museum seems to require a special environment to be designed for both the interior and exterior...G&M View full entry
David Chipperfield Architects redevelopment project in Pisa, a site which overlooks the famous Leaning Tower complex has met with resistance of local conservationists. Times View full entry
“The idea for building one of the world's tallest towers in the middle of downtown is still alive, after city commissioners decided to negotiate with that development group and two others on Tuesday…Except that the idea has gone from lofty to loftiest - it's now proposed to be the... View full entry
...to stay home Wednesday evening, October 3, 2007, and tune in to the DISCOVERY CHANNEL for "Build it Bigger." At 8 pm ET/PT, in an episode titled "Mountain of Steel," host Danny Forster will take you through the current construction of our torqued and curving designs for the six-building City... View full entry
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The Smithsonian Institution, a collection of 19 museums, is in need of $2.5 billion in renovations and repairs according to the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO). CBC View full entry
If it could hold a Zepplin, it can hold a city market. Most of the world's Zeppelin hangars have disappeared since the deadly explosion of the Hindenburg abruptly ended the airship era in 1937. But five of them, originally built for German war dirigibles, have long been a point of local pride in... View full entry