The Institute for Sound and Vision by Neutelings Riedijk has opened its doors to the public. The juice is not the television-like exterior, but the dramatic interior that allows a look 5 stories down, 5 stories up, and all the way around. A new paradigm in public architecture. Eikongraphia View full entry
Shigeru Ban appears on YouTube discussing his latest sustainable endeavor, a pavilion for artek, which is constructed with composite wood and plastic members. via View full entry
Want to live in a home designed by a famous architect? Then get a council flat in Madrid. Steve Rose reports. View full entry
Some kind of giant wind flashy thing, in one case with videos... where else? we-make-money-not-art View full entry
December, January and February site visits. Flickr View full entry
Regalia Holdings has commissioned Bernardo Fort-Brescia (of Arquitectonica) as architect of Regalia in Sunny Isles Beach. Coral Gables Gazette View full entry
A nice article on a transitional housing homeless project in Toronto, by architects Levitt Goodman Architects. As Goodman describes the project, echoes of Herman Hertzberger's "non-programmed" spatial strategies resound: the creation of places for the accommodation of unanticipated activities... View full entry
Years after the end of the Cold War, the Swiss continue to construct fallout shelters for their citizens as a matter of written law. BBC View full entry
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
