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
“LaBarge [Wyoming] residents Vince and Cheryl Pierce found the Moondance for sale on the diner museum's Web site and bought it for $7,500 (€5,490) — a bargain price that museum founder Daniel Zilka said reflected the urgency to find a buyer quickly to save it from the wrecking... View full entry
As noted in the discussions Architecture for Humanity finds itself on the front page of the NYTimes.com and in todays' Home and Garden section. After two years of partnering with dozens of local groups and support from Oprah's Angel Network and others, architect designed homes emerge in East... View full entry
“An all-star roster of avant garde international architects, mixed with some of Russia’s top talent, was announced last week in the first-round results of a competition to design a major new art museum in Perm, Russia. Among the 25 names on the shortlist are Adjaye Associates... View full entry
“This will be Gehry's second Bay Area effort. He designed the Sleep Train Pavilion in Concord, and has designed two other winery projects, the as-yet-unbuilt Le Clos Jordan in Ontario and a hotel for Spain's Marques de Riscal that cost a reported 80 million euros ($109 million). Of the... View full entry
