In preparation for their upcoming theme issue, "Preservation of Modernist Buildings," AIArchitect has launched an open call for submissions. related feature View full entry

This isn't a police investigation. It's a marketing strategy. While the project's developer finishes up the paperwork needed to legally sell units, ads encourage prospective buyers to visit the Spire's website and "Register Interest." Repeat | previously View full entry

They were just selected for the Cincinnati Art Museum expansion. Press Release View full entry

English Partnerships and Horden Cherry Lee architects argue that to re-do each apartment to 'Decent Home Standard' would cost £70000 per unit, and to move the affordable housing away and turn the apartments into "something where architects would want to live" would cost way beyond... View full entry

Here are some links to the other 9 entries for the Camp Nou renovation. I still think Herzog de Meuron's is the most exiting of all. If you want to see the models and drawings (and you happen to be in BCN) don't forget to stop by the Colegi de Arquitectes to see these beauties first hand. Some... View full entry

“Thanks to the nearly flat-lined downtown real estate market, what was supposed to be a luxury condominium tower is morphing into a landmark low-income apartment project.” Sign on San Diego View full entry

On Oct. 30, King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofía of Spain will cut the ribbon on the glorious new Jerónimos Wing of the Museo del Prado. Designed by the Spanish architect Rafael Moneo, the 150-million-euro expansion finally brings this nearly 200-year-old institution into the modern... View full entry

Metal Shutter Houses , an 11-story apartment building designed by Shigeru Ban, is being built on West 19th Street in Chelsea, adjacent to Frank Gehry's IAC and just north of Jean Nouvel's 100 11th. via Curbed View full entry

From vernissage.tv 5 min. extract clip of Zumthor's speech during the opening of the museum where he talks about, historical art and contemporary art, and about his opinion on the so called "Bilbao effect". Via dezain View full entry

New York was once a city of fancy façades. Terra-cotta tiles, brownstone fronds, limestone gargoyles, cast-iron pilasters. Then came postwar modernism, which preached the sanctity of simplicity, a sermon from which we are still recovering. Richard Meier’s recent glass palazzi in the... View full entry

FCBarcelona.cat finally unveils images of the new stadium, together with a comprehensive description of the project (nothing in F&P's website yet). And a press release style article in the Guardian >image 1image 2image 3image 4image 5image 6image 7image 8image 10image 11image 12 View full entry

Marks Barfield, the visionary architects behind the London Eye, have come up trumps again bringing style to the middle of suburban Woking with a glorious, canalside arts centre. Guardian View full entry

At about one million visitors per year, FOG's Bilbao hits the decade mark. "The swooping form began showing up everywhere, from car ads to MTV rap videos, like architectural bling." | nytimes View full entry

An influential developer plans an enormous skyscraper at the edge of the city’s giant central park. A celebrity architect is commissioned, and the ambitious mayor unveils the proposal at city hall. - Instantly, the prospective tower’s largely genteel neighbors rise up in arms. NYT |... View full entry

In the capital's increasingly overcrowded and overdeveloped landscape, the only way is down. Jonathan Glancey reports on the ingenious expansion of an inner-city school. Guardian View full entry