Spiritually outdated and brutally designed, St Peter's seminary was obsolete by the time it opened. So why the battle to preserve it? By Jonathan Glancey. View full entry
A German architect is pursuing an ambitious project in the Middle East. He wants to build office towers in Riyadh, Dubai and Bahrain that produce all their own energy. The zero emissions office building has arrived. spiegel View full entry
Before the battle for Britain's Brutalist past, there were other battles over architecture that have shaped our current attitudes to our past. One of the most notable of these was over the fate of perhaps the greatest Victorian train station, St Pancras in London.BBC | Previous 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 View full entry
Antoni Gaudi's Sagrada Familia church, an unfinished Barcelona landmark that is considered a marvel of modern architecture, has lacked a construction permit for more than a century, city officials said Friday. IHT View full entry
The sleek exterior of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, a behemoth of black steel and tinted glass designed by Mies van der Rohe, belies an interior plagued with leaky ceilings, broken elevators, and "wasted" space. Here we go again and again... CSM | related call for entries... View full entry
The Barbican is one of the UK's most controversial collections of buildings, a massive concrete city within a city, squatting in an area of London flattened during World War II. BBC | Previous 1 | 2 | 3 View full entry
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Mo., recently opened an architecturally unique addition that has prompted a range of reactions. The NewsHour presents a report. prev View full entry
Stand in the shadow of Northampton's Greyfriars Bus Station and sooner or later, somebody will pass by muttering vitriolic abuse about a structure that also incorporates a car park and office building. BBC | Previous 1 | 2 View full entry
it ain't a marcel breuer, and it ain't cleveland, but baltimore has it's own impending showdown with the preservation of late-20th century architectureBaltimore Sun View full entry
The roundabout, bus station and much of the surrounding area featured in the programme's title sequence are to be demolished as part of the £400m Heart of Slough project, which hopes to bring shops and new homes to a town centre long thought of as an urban planning dystopia. BBC | Previous View full entry
Marcel Breuer, one of the fathers of modern architecture, built only one skyscraper, the 29-story Cleveland Trust Tower, which today stands abandoned on a forlorn block downtown. But a plan to demolish the tower, and replace it with a midrise government office building, has caused an outcry among... View full entry
Mexico City's Arquitectura 911sc and LA Firm Plasmatic Concepts created this short clip for the 2007 Rotterdam Biennalelink. View full entry
The first of a series of debates on whether or not to conserve 5 British modernist buildings. First off, the brutalist Gateshead car park. BBC View full entry
By design, Philip Johnson's iconic Glass House evokes openness and accessibility. For decades, however, only the late architect's friends and guests could visit the famed 1949 home and explore the surrounding 47 acres of New England countryside. That changed when invitation-only tours of the... View full entry
“For Swiss taxpayers — who are paying for the twin, multibillion-dollar ( -euro) construction projects — the main selling-point was that it would move heavy trucks off their crowded highways and onto trains. Switzerland is at the center of a north-south European axis where... View full entry
