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

Finalists include: Morphosis, Shigeru Ban, Polshek and Partners, and the Norwegian firm Snohetta. Why the conspicuous abscence of a local firm among the finalists? The museum's CEO has something to say about that.| Dallas News View full entry

tonight, thursday may 17, @ 7:30 pm the toyota lecture series @ art center college of design presents, as part of the open house exhibit, 2027: a (domestic) space odyssey. Featured architects Hitoshi Abe, Joel Sanders, Craig Scott and Karen van Lengen discuss their OPEN HOUSE projects. A... View full entry

While David Fisher's Twirling Tower is not the first rotating skyscraper, nor the first that generates power from wind, it's definitely a compelling idea. Designer David Fisher claims his Twirling Twirling Wind Tower can not only generate enough energy to power itself, but it will also generate... View full entry

Jean Prouvé's Tropical House is on Christie's auctioning block. Only 1 of 3 ever made, the prototype is currently owned by Eric Touchaleaume and is being sold to finance a Prouve Museum. | nytimes | prev View full entry

Russian and foreign preservationists expressed alarm Monday at the destruction of Moscow's historic and architecturally significant buildings as the Russian capital undergoes massive development fueled by the country's economic boom. Guardian View full entry

Designed by Eric Parry Architects on a world heritage site in Bath, England, plans of the additional space for Holburne Museum is dubbed "little short of criminal". I think it is beautiful. telegraph View full entry

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