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The developer of the planned Chicago Spire, the twisting 150-story lakefront skyscraper that will be the nation's tallest building, announced Tuesday that construction on the tower's foundations will begin "within weeks." Skeptics have maintained that the residential skyscraper would never get... View full entry
Students enrolled in the Ecosa Institute’s Total Immersion Semester in Sustainable Design have worked together to create plans for an environmentally, socially and economically responsible 45-unit housing project for Desert Mission Neighborhood Renewal, a non-profit community development... View full entry
A team of New York developers has hired Asymptote to design 166 Perry Street, a nine-story, 26-unit condo. It's the first Manhattan building design for the New York-based firm. The project will be sited adjacent to Richard Meier & Partner's Perry Street Towers. via The Street | renderings @... View full entry
ROSLINDALE -- Harvard's plan to build a 45,000-square-foot research facility next to the Arnold Arboretum has nearby residents dreading the disappearance of open space, and a handful hope they can stonewall, if not stop, the powerful university. Boston Globe | Arnold Arboretum Website View full entry
Article featuring the Laurelhurst Community Center by VIA Suzuki and The Yesler Community Center, designed by Mithun, which is fully functional during daylight hours with natural light alone. seattlepi.com View full entry
Spiritually outdated and brutally designed, St Peter's seminary was obsolete by the time it opened. So why the battle to preserve it? By Jonathan Glancey. View full entry
A German architect is pursuing an ambitious project in the Middle East. He wants to build office towers in Riyadh, Dubai and Bahrain that produce all their own energy. The zero emissions office building has arrived. spiegel View full entry
Before the battle for Britain's Brutalist past, there were other battles over architecture that have shaped our current attitudes to our past. One of the most notable of these was over the fate of perhaps the greatest Victorian train station, St Pancras in London.BBC | Previous 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 View full entry
Antoni Gaudi's Sagrada Familia church, an unfinished Barcelona landmark that is considered a marvel of modern architecture, has lacked a construction permit for more than a century, city officials said Friday. IHT View full entry
The sleek exterior of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, a behemoth of black steel and tinted glass designed by Mies van der Rohe, belies an interior plagued with leaky ceilings, broken elevators, and "wasted" space. Here we go again and again... CSM | related call for entries... View full entry
The Barbican is one of the UK's most controversial collections of buildings, a massive concrete city within a city, squatting in an area of London flattened during World War II. BBC | Previous 1 | 2 | 3 View full entry
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Mo., recently opened an architecturally unique addition that has prompted a range of reactions. The NewsHour presents a report. prev View full entry
Stand in the shadow of Northampton's Greyfriars Bus Station and sooner or later, somebody will pass by muttering vitriolic abuse about a structure that also incorporates a car park and office building. BBC | Previous 1 | 2 View full entry
it ain't a marcel breuer, and it ain't cleveland, but baltimore has it's own impending showdown with the preservation of late-20th century architectureBaltimore Sun View full entry
