Settling into a joint interview with architect Zaha Hadid at the atmospheric Palazzo Contarini Polignac in Venice, Karl Lagerfeld accidentally tripped over Hadid’s black fringed handbag, which she had placed on the floor next to her chair... WWD View full entry
Rising costs surround Zaha Hadid's current project in Glasgow with the transportation museum new budget going from the initial estimate of £50m to a new final price of £74m. Herald View full entry
A website documenting the trusset, a digital fabrication project at the GSAPP. Videos with commentary walk through the process from software to construction - interesting as the piece is rather large and complex. View full entry
“At 25 feet by 25 feet, it’s a wide but shallow two-story house with only 1,250 square feet of livable space. That space was sagging badly and needed new windows, walls, plumbing and electricity. The two men renovated it themselves, running up about $100,000 in credit-card debt in the... View full entry
Rafael Pizarro, lecturer in Sustainable Urban Planning at the faculty of Architecture at the University of Sydney, and a team of 20 final year architecture students have spent several months designing what they call an ambitious and revolutionary plan to transform Sydney's White Bay into the... View full entry
“Everything Frank Gehry touches is unique and I’m sure it will be a great park,” Mr. Bloomberg said yesterday as Gehry takes his crack at the world of monkey bars and swing sets with a new playground at Battery Park. NYT View full entry
In his Glass House, America’s most public architect, Philip Johnson, created an utterly transparent intimacy. NY Times View full entry
Steven Holl’s breathtaking addition to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, opening here on June 9, is his most mature work to date, a perfect synthesis of ideas that he has been refining for more than a decade. nyt View full entry
La Maison Tropicale, a movable metal house on stilts by French modernist designer Jean Prouve, sold for $4.97 million last night at Christie's International in New York, more than twice the price per area of a Park Avenue apartment. Bloomy l previous View full entry
WMF announces the 2008 World Monuments Watch List (pdf). This year’s list highlights three critical man-made threats: political conflict, unchecked urban and industrial development, and, for the first time, global climate change. Visit the WMF Watch List site for an interactive map that... View full entry
Some photos on flickr. View full entry
The exuberant forms and fluid interiors of a group of new concert halls make the great halls of the late 19th century seem fusty by comparison. NYTimes View full entry
The State Department asked architects to remove detailed plans for the new U.S. Embassy under construction in Baghdad, which was appeared online worldwide, in a breach of the tight security surrounding the sensitive project. It still is a top news item in Archinect, but the enthusiastic web site... View full entry
Football's world governing body FIFA has officially opened its new headquarters in Zurich designed by Swiss architect Tilla Theus. ecAr View full entry
“It's only fitting that the crusade to save old Kabul is being led by Rory Stewart, the iconoclastic Scottish adventurer and author of The Places in Between. He was asked to become involved by Prince Charles, whose friendship with Afghan President Hamid Karzai led to the Prince setting up... View full entry
