The NY Times profiles an Oregon couple who built a "compact green home" in the shadow of Mt. Hood. Included in the article are descriptions of the techniques they used to deal with building on the flood plain. View full entry
Liberty Hotel "The elegant iron-railing balconies were once catwalks where guards stood watch over the inmates to make sure they didn't break out." View full entry
New York magazine's S. Jhoanna Robledo takes you inside a $3.6 million apartment at 40 Bond that’s on the market.... Via NY Mag View full entry
The Times architecture critic gives his verdict on the Olympic Stadium designs unveiled today. View full entry
HOK Sport have released new images of their oh-so-parametric design for theLondon 2012 Olympic Stadium. There's a promotional video here, a BD article here, something similar from the AJ here and of course a news page from the BBC here. Given it's very tight budget and the requirement of being... View full entry
Jonathan Glancey reviews the renovation of Fortnum and Masons the old, venerable British foods and specialty items retailer.... From the article "Fortnums used to be smart, racy and frightfully English. Walk round it now and you could be almost anywhere....The new-look Fortnums fits well into... View full entry
682 ft tall giant ferris wheel will have 48 air conditioned observation capsules, each of which can carry up to 40 passengers, and on a good day even the Great Wall is expected to be visible in the mountains to Beijing's north. reuters / ground breaking ceromony View full entry
A catalogue of styles emerging in New Orleans: Defensive style, Defiant Style, Dogooder Style. NYT View full entry
A short video showing some aspects of the project by spanish practice A-cero that recently won the Nebula contest in Dubai... Nebula (Madinat Al Arab, Dubai). A project by A-CERO. Uploaded by a-cero View full entry
Construction is about to start on Berlin's first Hindu temple.. It will be dedicated to the God Ganesh and will a 17-meter-high ornamental tower decorated with sculptures.. Via Der Spiegel View full entry
The museum is scheduled to open next fall, although it's architecturally mostly complete now. A tour of the ultra-environmental museum one moonlit evening last week reminded me that natural landscapes and the design imagination need not live apart. SFGate View full entry
A group of historic preservationists, the Committee of 100, are trying to grant landmark status to the Third Church of Christ, Scientist's building, a large concrete structure at 16th and I streets Northwest. One thing in their way? The church's members. Washington Times | Washington Post View full entry
The famous Prado Museum in Madrid has unveiled its impressive ultra-modern wing, designed by star architect Rafael Moneo. It marks the highpoint in a renaissance of architecture in Spain, which has become the center of avant-garde design in recent years. der Spiegel | previously 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 View full entry
When your new boutique condo project is surrounded by serious starchitecture, including buildings by Frank Gehry, Annabelle Selldorf and Jean Nouvel, how do you make it stand out? Easy. Hire an architect who's used to thinking out of the box - and then let him. NYPost | previously View full entry
The architect Santiago Calatrava has sued the city of Bilbao for violating the copyright of his Campo Volantín footbridge, which was modified by another architect's (Arata Isozaki) extension. Independent View full entry
