826 opens up its second Los Angeles area center, designed and built by archinector, Scott Mitchell. 826 is a "free literacy and writing center for kids that was started by author Dave Eggers in San Francisco," with centers in New York, Chicago, Ann Arbor, Seattle, and Boston. 826 is always... View full entry
In case anyone wants to call in, today at 1PM WBUR's 'Radio Boston' will have a call-in show to explore and talk about the (in)famous building and plaza. Kallmann McKinnell & Wood, the designers, will make an appearance. context:Architect's re-imagine Boston's City Hall For more info and full... View full entry
Interesting article about abandoned buildings as well as link to site showing abandoned sites by state. abandonedbutnotforgotten View full entry
"It is hard to believe that teams with this much assembled star power could come up with something so awesomely bad." -Ada Louise Huxtable for the Wall Street Journal View full entry
Now beginning its second year, the $461 million complex, known as the Carnival Center for the Performing Arts, is in administrative upheaval and struggling financially. NYT View full entry
... is a free independent alternative travel guide to East Jerusalem. It invites you to stroll around places that are hardly mentioned in conventional travel guides and aims at letting you discover some crucial aspects that the Israeli occupation, going on since 1967, brings with it. See Decode... View full entry
The $400 million complex, a concert hall, opera house and theater under one space age span, is designed to be the center of Chinese culture, just as Tiananmen Square next door was designated this country’s political center. Yet the center, designed by the French architect Paul Andreu, has... View full entry
New York has recently witnessed the unveiling of nearly half a dozen major architectural landmarks, an abundance the city hasn’t seen in decades. NYT View full entry
City and state officials announced Wednesday that the design — by the Dutch firm West 8, Diller Scofidio & Renfro, Rogers Marvel Architects, Quennell Rothschild & Partners and SMWM — had triumphed in a competition that had narrowed to five finalists. NYT listen View full entry
Christopher Hawthorne revisits the Getty center and finds that it....LAtimes was widely seen as an anomaly in Los Angeles, an effort to lend instant, old-fashioned respectability to an institution that craved it. Then, after it opened Dec. 16, 1997, the Getty surprised usby fitting in. And in the... View full entry
From the book Meydan Shopping Square Ein neuer Prototyp von FOA A Metro Group project in Istanbul. Jovis Verlag (in a PDF) / Previously View full entry
Wired Magazine looks at Shigeru Ban's first US residential project, Metal Shutter Houses in NY. They write, "Modern architects are obsessed with bringing the outside in, but they usually settle for illusion (great big glass walls are, after all, still walls). Japan's Shigeru Ban settles for... View full entry
1.- Judge Rules Against Calatrava in Bilbao Suit. "judge Edmundo Rodríguez Achútegui recognized that Calatrava’s rights as author of the bridge had been infringed, but he ruled that the public utility of the addition took precedence over this private right" archrecord / Prev... View full entry
The NYT discusses Shigeru Ban's paper-composite footbridge, over the Gardon River in the south of France. The bridge's steps are constructed from a new material called ProFi, assembled from paper and plastic left over from the manufacture of self-adhesive labels, similar to that of his Artek... View full entry
Work on arguably the most radical office building on earth has reached a crucial point, with engineers ready to join the two leaning towers that will be the new home of China's state broadcaster. AFP View full entry
