Whitney's $200 million-plus Piano addition, is too high for a building that will only add another 30,000 square feet of gallery space. So says, Adam Weinberg, the museum's director, who contends that stacking the galleries on seven floors, with relatively small floor plates, is too confining... View full entry
A no-frills design and cheap eats are helping the Tate Modern evolve into a people's palace that the art world can also love. nyt View full entry
Pompidou extends its art branches next month with the ground breaking of Shigeru Ban's Metz-based seedling of the popular Paris institution. Telegraph l related View full entry
The landmark 1993 Dome Village in Downtown Los Angeles has been removed! You can buy one on Ebay for about $3k, but does it include the pungent legacy of the former residents? LAtimes View full entry
For people seriously ill with cancer, a positive outlook is essential. Yet so much of their time is spent in soul-destroying waiting rooms and strip-lit clinics. How much better for a patient to 'feel hugged by a building'. Simon Garfield reveals why Zaha Hadid's new Maggie's Centre - the... View full entry
The Neptune Foundation's floating pool designed by Jonathan Kirschenfeld Associates will make its highly anticipated arrival in NY Harbor next monday 30th. You can visit the pool's pogress in floatingpool.org View full entry
Both Herzog & de Meuron and SANAA presented today their projects for the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein. H&deM will build a museum that uses the iconography of the typical house and extrusion-techniques that can be associated to Vitra furniture. There are not yet images of the proposal of... View full entry
What ever happened to the Penn Station expansion project and its many redesigns? Well, after several roadblocks it sits in the closet of inevitabilities. NYT View full entry
Developer Aby Rosen is the man behind Norman Foster's proposed condo tower at 980 Madison Avenue. nyt View full entry
Rainforest Ventures Ltd (RVL) is planning a development to be placed somewhere in the northwest of England, consisting of a hotel with views into an Eden project inspired tropical greenhouse. BBC1 / BBC2 View full entry
OMA just finishes the studies for a mayor masterplan which foresees to connect via an underground tunnel The Hague and Rotterdamedgargonzalez.com View full entry
Check out the new Metropolis and get a glimpse on what's going on at Asymptote these days. In recent years, Hani Rashid and Lise Ann Couture have been steadily moving towards tangible material architecture with an array of pretty serious commissions, and a very fresh staff on board. Note: If in... View full entry
A five-alarm fire Tuesday claimed the landmark Wirt Dexter building in Chicago's south Loop, one of the few surviving structures from the partnership of Louis Sullivan and Dankmar Adler, raises questions about the city's commitment to protecting its architectural legacy. Repeat View full entry
With no director and a board in flux, the Dia Art Foundation has scrapped its plans to open a museum at the entrance to the High Line...Link Rumors that this could have an affect on the Whitney addition by Piano are now out. View full entry
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