The New Statesmen tackles the subject of history and building in two recent articles on new museums in Athens and South Africa, which seek to tell new stories for the future through the past. View full entry
General Relativity updates with 30 pictures for the renovation of the notorious barbican centre. Barbican is is one of the few buildings to have appeared in both the best-loved and most hated building categories in architectural surveys of popular opinion. View full entry
The conversion of the Post Office Building into the Moynahan Terminal has stalled, again. NYtimes View full entry
Dezain finds nice mid-erection images of SANAA's New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York. Flickr l previous View full entry
After weeks of construction delays, the Institute of Contemporary Art will announce today that its new building will open to the public on Dec. 10. BGlobe l (N)OPEN View full entry
The latest addition to Berlin's cultural landscape, the Bode Museum, is to reopen its doors after a six-year makeover...DW l spiegel View full entry
Lord Norman Foster presented a design in Moscow on the site of the former Rossiya hotel once stood. The new complex will occupy norminally 500,000 SM with key features being an elliptical cultural center, a 2,000-room hotel and a museum. MT View full entry
The new Frank Gehry and Greg Lynn collaboration entitled Atlantis Sentosa has been made public. It's a private competition and they have paired with Kerzner & CapitaLand on a 5.6 billion singapore dollars estimated bid. Hopefully soon we'll see images from the vaguely mentioned robotanical... View full entry
...are teaming up to design an arts school for 1,800 children forced to flee their homes by Colombia's civil war. | WashPost View full entry
What might the most spontaneous architecture ever built next the Winchester House, the Broken Angel art house has been ordered hazardous by NYC Department of Buildings. NYT l UTube l brownstoner View full entry
Fiction becomes reality as angry disenchanted pro-architecture partisans plan protest in support of Steven Holl. The group is enraged slightly preterbed over Holl's dismissal/resignation from Denver Justice Center project. RMN l previous View full entry
Just what the bunkerhill boosters wanted, another tower in downtown Los Angeles. Does the math add up? Only $300 million by Los Angeles architect Richard Keating of Keating/Khang Architecture. LAtimes View full entry
Despite Steven Holl's row in Denver there is a glimmer of hope in the background in the form of the official home of the Swiss ambassador to the United States in DC--but its not so much the building as much as the realization that the Swiss Minergie Standards are vastly superior to the LEEDs... View full entry
Inspired by a glimpse of the Rocky Mountains gained as he first flew into Denver, Libeskind's new building for the Denver Art Museum sits like an alien craft amid the civic grandeur of the mile-high city's downtown. guardian View full entry
(Jean Nouvel's) (Quai) Branly isn't the first bummer of its kind. The clumsy Tate Modern in London, by Swiss starchitects Herzog & de Meuron, is a sterling earlier example. So is the ghastly Musee d'Orsay here . All such buildings are dancing for attention, trying to repeat the celebrity of... View full entry