I.M. Pei has unveiled a new masterpiece for his hometown - the Suzhou Museum. "The tradition-meets-modernity complex has white walls with geometric patterns in relief, a dark gray granite roof that turns black in rain - the traditional colors white, gray and black of classical gardens," nine in... View full entry
Brutalist London Housing project gets a nice coat of paint to refreshen it for new consumption. Guardian View full entry
John at Archidose posts a very cool project by UCX Architects / Ben Huygen and Jasper Jaegers for Vestia Rotterdam Feijenoord/Estrade Projecten. View full entry
More Dubai news. After innovative speculative towers, something a bit more...well Dubai style. Via Things "the latest architectural catastrophe" Falconcity of Wonders. View full entry
Porsche Design and Dubai Properties announced today that the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) has been commissioned to design, in co-operation with Porsche Design a high quality office tower and a luxury residential tower in Dubai. Completion is due 2009. via EGW RESS RELEASE for... View full entry
Part of the work made for the Spanish Pavillion in the Venice Biennale has been available online. The Pavillion hosts an installation of 16 screens showing Google Earth flights, and there are several new Spanish architecture examples modeled in 3D on those videos. These models, created with... View full entry
Das Park Hotel in Austria offers a night in the landsape in your very own concrete sewer pipe. Just make sure you're on level ground before tucking yourself in. --------------------- View full entry
The new RISD Library by Office dA officially opened last weekend. The strategy for the RISD Library engages three distinct architectural disciplines: intervention, preservation, and engineering. View full entry
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