A state judge has spared a Westport home, designed by renowned architect Paul Rudolph, from demolition — for now. LATimes View full entry

To the extent that Los Angeles is a company town — that company being movies and television — it isn’t easy to gain fame as an architect here, especially in the shadow of Frank Gehry, one of the profession’s few West Coast celebrities.....But it’s becoming harder to... View full entry

Designed and built by Mr. Ledner in the mid-1950s, the house, which has the jaunty silhouette of a World’s Fair pavilion, looks as fragile as a piece of cut crystal. It was flooded for weeks, and the elegant built-in furniture was left warped and moldy, the fine-grained Arkansas pine... View full entry

A state oversight board voted this afternoon to approve the Atlantic Yards project near Downtown Brooklyn, knocking down the last regulatory hurdle for the biggest real estate project in Brooklyn history. NYT View full entry

As we reported earlier on the village of Viganella, it's plan has come (at least partially) now to fruition. A computer controlled eight-by-five metre mirror was installed on a nearby mountainside to reflect sunlight into the village's main piazza. Sunday marked its "day of light." - BBC View full entry

While acknowledging that the cost of operating two sites would be substantial, [Whitney director] Mr. Weinberg said the possibility of selling the 1966 Marcel Breuer building at Madison Avenue and East 75th Street was not on the table, at least for now. NYSun View full entry

Enrique Norten and his colleagues released revised design concepts that reflect input from a series of public events and surveys throughout the fall semester. The overall vision is to create a modern corridor of academic and residential buildings while still honoring and respecting the historic... View full entry

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) -- The Dallas Cowboys are taking their distinctive hole-in-the-roof design with them to their $1 billion new stadium. more View full entry

A state lottery grant is set to transform a rundown former Scottish fish market into an arts space on par with London's Tate Modern. SunHerald View full entry

After years of constructing buildings for architects such as James Stirling, Philip Johnson, Rem Koolhaas, Daniel Libeskind and Portugal's own Alvaro Siza, Balmond is now designing in his own right. He is, he says, in conventional terms the "architect" of the Pedro and Ines bridge, while his... View full entry

Presentations by local architects challenge Daniel Libeskind's vision... 'The mayor wanted to get the bums out, and this plan was going to do all these wonderful things to rejuvenate Denver's front yard' DenverPost View full entry

Architect Senan Abdelqader who describes himself as 'Palestinian-Arab citizen of Israel' will embark on the design of the first Arab-Israeli museum of contemporary art, after negotiations with British architect Zaha Hadid broke down. Read > View full entry

The chance of a random drenching just adds another level of fun to a house that seems to toggle from academic severity to party-pad louche. NYT View full entry

At long last, the new Institute of Contemporary Art complex opens, and is appropriately badass. Bostonians rejoice at having a work of modern architecture that isn’t an utter piece of dogshit. quote via Dig - Boston's Weekly | see also: Robert Campbell for The Boston Globe | Bloomberg |... View full entry

British seaside towns continue adding quirky designs to their beach fronts. The latest is, the East Beach Cafe designed by Thomas Heatherwick. Photos > View full entry