Following being commissioned by Croydon Council to create a fresh vision for the urban centre of the South London Borough - Will Alsop has set up a website to record tha output of a series of creative workshops he is running with the Croydon community. The website is conceived as a place to... View full entry
Architecture and art pundits are already chiming in with optimistic/pessimistic takes on the recently introduced plans for a multi-billion-dollar, 670-acre cultural district in Abu Dhabi. Rather than add to the punditry, ArchNewsNow offers the four starchitects’ own design statements... View full entry
The challenge is considerable. Stanley Saitowitz, the latest man charged with designing the 21st century version of the Tampa Museum of Art, acknowledged as much. St. Petersburg Times | previously 1|2 View full entry
This latter-day Xanadu, as envisioned in a glittering multimillion-dollar exhibition in the lobby of the opulent Emirates Palace Hotel here, would boast four museums, a performing arts center and 19 art pavilions designed by celebrated architects like Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid and Jean Nouvel... View full entry
UAE brings in the big guns to shoot beyond their blooming island developments with three museums designed by the starchitects Frank Gehry, Jean Nouvel and Tadao Ando, as well as a sexy space pod performing arts center from Zaha Hadid. NYT l previous View full entry
ArchRecord looks at some of the newly designed affordable housing projects that are trying to address the question of how architecture can respond to immigration, integration, and poverty in Paris one year after the riots. Related: France's banlieues: year of the locust. View full entry
Jean Nouvel has finally unveiled his domed design for the new Louvre™ franchise in Abu Dhabi. This is the latest addition to the mega arts complex which includes works by Gehry, Zaha, and Ando. More at Bloomberg . Previous View full entry
Welcome to Esplanade House in the seaside town of Porthcawl. Its architects won a major award. What a pity locals hate it - and are calling it 'the bottle bank'. Steve Rose explains. View full entry
From the dust and dirt of north Beijing, China's new national stadium rises spectacularly. BBC View full entry
Only six weeks ago, Taschen opened its first flagship store in New York. Bejeweled with the floating shelf design of the French Philippe Starck and psychedelic murals painted by the Brazilian Beatriz Milhazes, the 107 Greene St. location screams adventure and excitement, and shows that Barnes... View full entry
"What seems to have happened is that the developers have been wanting this for a long time, but the architects have been lagging behind. Architects use the same plans over and over, particularly when it comes to parking in a garage." SFGate, Automotion View full entry
London designers will "speed date" with committees responsible for London's 2012 Olympics in an effort to keep design commissions local. When the bell rings, don't let the door crush your drawings on your way out. | A toZ Build.com View full entry
It is true that the old building had a tower, yet the current version, an industrial-looking structure, is an intrusive presence in Golden Gate Park. It is a rare false note in a building that combines stylish minimalism and (dare I say, Swiss) practicality, mostly with success.Slate View full entry
The saga of the Church of St. Pierre is told in "Architecture Interruptus," an exhibit opening today in the Wexner Center for the Arts. Included are drawings, photographs, a model of the completed structure and a video of its construction. Columbus Dispatch | previously 1 | 2 | 3 View full entry
An Op-Ed piece on Frank Gehry's mixed-use project for Lehi (near Salt Lake City), and on appreciating architecture in general: "If your heart doesn’t skip a beat at the sight of a house designed in the spirit of Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona Pavilion, you’ve got a heart of... View full entry
