In a desperate attempt to save a brutalist theatre and one of his few remaining landmark projects from the wrecking ball, 91-year old John Johansen has initiated a letter-writing campaign from a cast of architecture celebrities.Baltimore Sun View full entry

The drive to purge the landscape of the output of an entire generation of architects is short-sighted. If we lose the bulk of our modernist architecture, as seems increasingly likely, we lose a layer of our cities and a part of ourselves. Financial Times UK | Lost Vanguard | on flickr View full entry

Arcspace reviews a digital project by Second Life architect Scope Cleaver for Princeton University. Arcspace More on virtual art galleries | virtual architecture and scale images in the Arcspace article by Scope Cleaver. View full entry

The Emmanuel Presbyterian Church, a modernist gem of architect Edward Dart, was demolished last week, exemplifying a hole in the city's safety net for preserving historic structures. Chicago Tribune | on flickr View full entry

Surrounded by acres of sun-ripening grapes, 300 dignitaries and guests convened in the Napa Valley of California last month to celebrate the long-delayed groundbreaking of the Hall Winery, designed by the architect Frank O. Gehry. NYT | previously View full entry

Amidst all the fanfare over the schemes for the SF Transbay Terminal, Beyond Chron gives us this dose of reality about high-rise development and the unchecked impact of fast tracking this project. View full entry

A weekend house in the Hudson Valley, designed by Thomas Phifer and Partners, is a small triumph of proportion, light and inexpensive materials used to striking effect. NYT Mag View full entry

c|net news profiles the Earthship.Earthships, which can maintain a comfortable interior temperature regardless of how hot or cold it is outside, currently exist in every U.S. state and in several other countries...Home sweet earthship View full entry

Arata Isozaki's Uffizi Gallery expansion is to proceed despite furious Florentine opposition to altering the historic building, which was once the offices of Florentine magistrates. the independent l previous l ANSA View full entry

Last year I took the pictures of the architects' models, when construction has just started. I just added 6 fresh pictures from the job site.Slideshow, previous, LACMA w/webcam. View full entry

"From the roof deck of Sherman Ochs’s Mexican-style villa atop a breezy bluff, the entire island of Jalisco, population about 20, spreads out below. It is a picturesque place of palm trees, lush lawns and near-cloudless skies. And, of course, there are the perfect sands around the lagoon... View full entry

Donald and Doris Fisher, founders of the Gap, are planning the creation of new cultural institution for San Francisco. The Contemporary Art Museum of the Presidio, with 55,000 square feet of galleries designed by Gluckman Mayner, will house their extensive collection of Modern Art. NYT View full entry

You wouldn’t expect cardboard to be strong enough to build a bridge, but that’s exactly what Shigeru Ban decided to use to build a bridge across the Gardon River in his latest work of architectural innovation. INHABITAT / SPLUCH View full entry

Three building proposals for a new transit center and mix-use tower were unveiled by the competing architectural minds of the Richard Rogers Partnership, Pelli Clark Pelli Architects, and the ubiquitous SOM. One of these three buildings if built could become the West Coast's tallest building. SFC... View full entry

An area of central Ireland where the high kings of the country were crowned and which is populated with burial mounds, megaliths, and other monuments has become a battleground for preservationists, who seek to halt the construction of a new four-lane highway that bifurcates the site. archaeology... View full entry