In his Glass House, America’s most public architect, Philip Johnson, created an utterly transparent intimacy. NY Times View full entry

Steven Holl’s breathtaking addition to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, opening here on June 9, is his most mature work to date, a perfect synthesis of ideas that he has been refining for more than a decade. nyt View full entry

La Maison Tropicale, a movable metal house on stilts by French modernist designer Jean Prouve, sold for $4.97 million last night at Christie's International in New York, more than twice the price per area of a Park Avenue apartment. Bloomy l previous View full entry

WMF announces the 2008 World Monuments Watch List (pdf). This year’s list highlights three critical man-made threats: political conflict, unchecked urban and industrial development, and, for the first time, global climate change. Visit the WMF Watch List site for an interactive map that... View full entry

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The exuberant forms and fluid interiors of a group of new concert halls make the great halls of the late 19th century seem fusty by comparison. NYTimes View full entry

The State Department asked architects to remove detailed plans for the new U.S. Embassy under construction in Baghdad, which was appeared online worldwide, in a breach of the tight security surrounding the sensitive project. It still is a top news item in Archinect, but the enthusiastic web site... View full entry

Football's world governing body FIFA has officially opened its new headquarters in Zurich designed by Swiss architect Tilla Theus. ecAr View full entry

“It's only fitting that the crusade to save old Kabul is being led by Rory Stewart, the iconoclastic Scottish adventurer and author of The Places in Between. He was asked to become involved by Prince Charles, whose friendship with Afghan President Hamid Karzai led to the Prince setting up... View full entry

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