Frank Gehry's name has been used to usher in and sell the new vision of the city with new exciting cultural institutions at the center. Now "Gehry" has been used to buy and sell real estate, much to his chagrin. TRIB l beginning View full entry
Chicago architect Jeanne Gang and her firm, Studio Gang Architects, have been selected to design Columbia College's planned Media Production Center, beating finalists that included the Los Angeles-area firm of Morphosis, headed by Pritzker Architecture Prize-winner Thom Mayne. Chicago Tribune The... View full entry
Kisho Kurokawa's iconic Nakagin Capsule Tower is scheduled to be demolished and replaced by a new 14-story tower. The Metabolist capsule building consists of 140 units attached to a central core, articulating the ideology behind the Metabolist movement of the 1960s and 1970s, which envisioned... View full entry
What happens when you send an architectural firm named Superkül into a bourgeois neighbourhood full of McMansions, pomp and historicism? “Annoyed neighbours threw up enough legal and regulatory roadblocks to slow the process considerably.” Sho'nuff. “It was only when the... View full entry
Previously , we saw them sliding facade of the house. icebergproject's Frank Fantauzzi and crew at UB Architecture have now rotated the facade and opened the house for viewing. Read about it: Buffalo News | Buffalo Rising View full entry
Libeskind's ROM is far enough along that you get a sense where it is going (from the outside). | thestar View full entry
Europe's first commercially operating power station using the Sun's energy this way and at the moment its operator, Solucar, proudly claims that it generates 11 Megawatts (MW) of electricity without emitting a single puff of greenhouse gas. This current figure is enough to power about... View full entry
SocketSite reports on a new proposal for a 300 unit tower by SOM across from St Mary's Cathedral in San Francisco... And one parking per unit below ground (why?). Not sure where they got the grainy image... Maybe a new sales brochure. Sock-it | Plus: Do the "people" want any more "residential"... View full entry
The Times and the Guardian agree on something(!). The Prado extension, for all its controversy and delays, is a success. Next stop Dubai? I think not. Jonathan Glancey: “For all its modesty, Moneo's building offers real surprises, and subtle architectural adventures.” Tom Dyckhoff... View full entry
The Seattle Art Museum expansion by Brad Cloepfil’s Allied Works Architecture is an exercise in restraint, veiled admonition and shrewd business dealing. Goodbye museum fabulous, hello corporate cloister. Christopher Hawthorne attempts to make the best of it. "…increasingly, the most... View full entry
The new arts library designed by Enrique Norten that was supposed to rise like the prow of a glass ship near the Brooklyn Academy of Music now seems likely to sink, unrealized, into the pavement. NYT View full entry
A step by step look at Diller Scofidio & Renfro's renovation of the Julliard School and Alice Tully Hall. NYTimes View full entry
With an exterior sculptural grid, purpose-built to support unencumbered and dynamic exchange inside, the Atlas building is appropriately named. “Work spaces are organized around a central atrium with bridges connecting the galleries on adjacent floors, encouraging informal interaction among... View full entry
"At the Nelson-Atkins, a project in many ways comparable to the National Gallery, Holl has produced as striking and inventive a piece of architectural form as anything by Gehry, Herzog & de Meuron, or Jean Nouvel, and yet it is a serene and exhilarating place in which to view art." Paul... View full entry
Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia has announced its shortlist for a new museum: Ando / DS+R / Kuma / Moneo / Morphosis / TWBT. | philly View full entry