For more on the Pink Project, tune into CNN tonight. View full entry
(Press Release) - Construction work is underway on The Grand, one of the largest vertically-integrated, mixed-use projects under construction in the nation. The multi-phase 3.6 million square foot development spanning three city blocks will cost an estimated $3 billion to develop...Phase I has... View full entry
"In addition to providing a home for 450,000 square feet of restaurants, cafes, bars and hotels, and a new campus for Belfast Metropolitan College, the finished product will host a museum dedicated to the area's ship-building past. Out the front door of the museum, a vast park will perfectly mirror the slips where the Titanic and its sister ship Olympic were built."
Der Spiegel examines the current mega-redevelopment scheme that is planned for abandoned industrial area along the River Lagan...Der Spiegel View full entry
The Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart, designed by Ben van Berkel of UNStudio, has been awarded a prize by the jury of the German Architecture Prize 2007. The award ceremony of the German Architecture Prize will take place on Dec 4th 2007 in München...Photographs taken during the opening... View full entry
Glancey has this to say about Tschumi's new Acropolis Museum which was designed at least in part with the purpose of convincing the British Museum to return the Elgin Marbles.... "Whether the marbles will ever all return to Athens is a question for curators and politicians. The New Acropolis... View full entry
Has the New Museum sold itself short? NYMag | discuss I can't remember there ever being more hope and goodwill toward an art institution than there is right now for the New Museum, as it moves into its new $64 million building on the Bowery. Partly this is because the New Museum, despite having... View full entry
D-Chip loves the midwest. The St. Louis Art museum unveiled drawings for their 9,000 m^2 $125m expansion... The Board of Commissioners of the Saint Louis Art Museum today announced a $125 million capital campaign to finance the expansion of the Art Museum's historic facility in Forest Park. The... View full entry
His Verdict... Sanaa achieved success! "Poised at one edge of a city struggling to regain its creative momentum, the New Museum building embodies a leap of faith. It suggests a breathing space somewhere between the innocence of New York’s artistic past and an encroaching money-driven... View full entry
Our friends at Curbed have visited SANAA's New Museum, with documentation in both photographs and (poor quality) video. View full entry
In the planning stages for over a decade now, the U.N. renovation plan is finally set to proceed now that temporary offsite office space has been decided upon. Via NYT View full entry
An article in today's Nature.com addresses the concerns of the users of MIT's Stata Center by Frank Gehry. In case you've been under a rock for the last couple months, MIT is suing Gehry because the Stata Center is leaking (previously - 1/2/3). According to the scientists and staff at the Stata... View full entry
The Royal Ontario Museum is trying to shoo a handful of long-time hot-dog and ice-cream vendors away from its dramatically renovated building because they don't fit with its "glitzy" new image. globe & mail View full entry
The first Londoners are said to have lived in mud huts on the site marked for Zaha Hadid’s Aquatics Centre. Building.co.uk View full entry
The centrepiece of the Helix project will be two 30-metre tall horse heads, which will act as a part of a working boatlift for Scotland's lowland canal network. Guardian View full entry
His verdict... "The Grey Lady gets a punk haircut is how I would categorize it." Via link View full entry
