A slide show of sketches, scale models, and photographs that trace the development of the luminous IAC building, Frank Gehry's first freestanding structure in Manhattan. Vanity Fair View full entry

If I'm not mistaken, this building has been in the works for a number of years, and originally set to open in 04 or 05, but it looks like it's getting really close. The high-end car building (Hadid's BMW plant, UN Studio Mercedes Museum) cohort is about to get a bit more crowded... See some shots... View full entry

Dellis Cay, a luxury island in Turks and Caicos archipelago, owned by couple of Turkish entrepreneurs, will feature villas galore by ; Shigeru Ban, David Chipperfield, Zaha Hadid and other theorists and practitioners of luxury. "Oh Lord won't you buy me a Dellis Cay pad?" free admiration. Move... View full entry

We can now conclude, after more than 20 years of steady development, that the area around Union Square and 14th Street has not been well served by the architectural community. NYSun View full entry

Thanks to two New York designers, Paul Rudolph's Cerritto House has been spared the fate of its demolished siblings. This week a crew is dislodging the house from its foundations in preparation for its move to Catskill, N.Y. Does that even count? NYT | previously View full entry

Owen Hatherley has a nice view on the death of Kisho Kurokawa's Nagakin Capsule Tower. previous View full entry

You don't like the shape of this skyscraper? Worry not, it will change, because each floor rotates. "We call it dynamic architecture," architect says. MoneyWeb View full entry

Recently, students at UW-Stout designed some portable homeless shelters, which caught the eye of a local non-prof. Since then they've produced 50 of the shelters for under $10 each, with hopes of distributing more. This one, while perhaps not as pretty, looks much more practical and therefore... View full entry

While the NEC is almost complete in Baghdad (the only project there practically on time and budget), they somehow miscalculated the housing needs for its 1000 or so employees, many of whom currently live in "tin-can trailers" wearing helmets and flak jackets, and asking for "bullet-resistant... View full entry

Travel site Concierge.com picks their architecture faves of the year:This year's seven showstoppers range from the witty (Spain's Hotel Puerta America, designed by a dream team of "starchitects") and the sublime (Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum) to the provocative (Portugal's multifaceted... View full entry

Well it wasn’t a Serra install, but we got to use cranes, there was definitely some choreography and it was at MoMA. Sadly I had to return to L.A last week from the first part of the Ball-Nogues install for the Young Architects Program at P.S.1/MoMA . Some amazing folks were responsible for... View full entry

"What might aliens deduce about human intelligence from our architecture?" The Guardian asks. "If they landed in London, they might see our suburban sprawl and crowded transport system, and rank us just above ants. Then they might inspect our skyscrapers and judge that we knew about engineering... View full entry

“In fact, look more closely at Grand Canyon West, and it is as if the roles of the United States government and the Indian tribes had been inverted or exchanged. The Park Service takes an almost sacred view of the canyon landscape, as if drawing on an imagined Indian conception of the land... View full entry

Philip Nobel assails the ICA and the sterile critique that endorses it. “Certainly there’s more power in constructing fame than in questioning it. Or is it that such critics think that star-crafted buildings, even if derivative and poorly realized, are inherently better than the... View full entry

Foster offers a tour of the new Wembley Stadium, which has its debut tonight. WATCH (nb: it has 2,600 toilets, a record) View full entry