Louise Baring goes behind the closed doors of a building in Brussels with an extraordinary artistic pedigree. Telegraph View full entry
In Napa Valley, the first American example of the whimsical buildings of Friedensreich Hundertwasser has finally opened to the public. nytimes View full entry
The museum’s new home, which is expected to be completed by the end of 2009, will face Central Park and cost about $80 million, according to officials. nytimes View full entry
Taalman and Koch are living the dream of most architects - building their dream house. But they are building it 3 hours away from Los Angeles where they live. No, they don't commute every day... LAtimes View full entry
"Priced out of the housing market?" Andrew Blum asks in the new issue of Wired. "Obsessed with design?" A new glass-walled mobile home might be for you... It's "a sleek, modern alternative living space" – and it goes where you go. Wired. View full entry
Landmark approval as of yesterday for Smith Miller+Hawkinson new condo proposal in the heart of SoHO. via curbed View full entry
Some new construction pics (from Jan 30, 2007) of Richard Rogers' Plaça de Les Arenes rehabilitation project in Barcelona, now in the image gallery | Previously in Archinect (Dec 2005) View full entry
A bright yellow crane has recently gone to work, the most solid sign yet that the reconstruction of the Uffizi Gallery here may really, finally, actually happen. But even with the ground broken, 10 years after the project was first announced, few are betting on it. NYT | previously View full entry
Following being commissioned by Croydon Council to create a fresh vision for the urban centre of the South London Borough - Will Alsop has set up a website to record tha output of a series of creative workshops he is running with the Croydon community. The website is conceived as a place to... View full entry
Architecture and art pundits are already chiming in with optimistic/pessimistic takes on the recently introduced plans for a multi-billion-dollar, 670-acre cultural district in Abu Dhabi. Rather than add to the punditry, ArchNewsNow offers the four starchitects’ own design statements... View full entry
The challenge is considerable. Stanley Saitowitz, the latest man charged with designing the 21st century version of the Tampa Museum of Art, acknowledged as much. St. Petersburg Times | previously 1|2 View full entry
This latter-day Xanadu, as envisioned in a glittering multimillion-dollar exhibition in the lobby of the opulent Emirates Palace Hotel here, would boast four museums, a performing arts center and 19 art pavilions designed by celebrated architects like Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid and Jean Nouvel... View full entry
UAE brings in the big guns to shoot beyond their blooming island developments with three museums designed by the starchitects Frank Gehry, Jean Nouvel and Tadao Ando, as well as a sexy space pod performing arts center from Zaha Hadid. NYT l previous View full entry
ArchRecord looks at some of the newly designed affordable housing projects that are trying to address the question of how architecture can respond to immigration, integration, and poverty in Paris one year after the riots. Related: France's banlieues: year of the locust. View full entry
Jean Nouvel has finally unveiled his domed design for the new Louvre™ franchise in Abu Dhabi. This is the latest addition to the mega arts complex which includes works by Gehry, Zaha, and Ando. More at Bloomberg . Previous View full entry