Inhabitat has just published an interview with Workshop APD, the NYC based firm that won Global Green's Sustainable Design competition for rebuilding in New Orleans. Read on for more information on their winning design proposal. Inhabitat View full entry
Mark this day in your diaries. Today the city of Stockholm announced the Abba Museum. Given the global impact the supergroup had on the cultural landscape the real question is, what star architect will be named as its designer? I'm thinking Gimme Gimme Gimme (a Mayne after midnight) or the... View full entry
The Clyfford Still Museum announced today that it has selected Allied Works Architecture... to design its future home in Denver. The 30,000 sf museum will accommodate the legendary artist’s work, including some 2,400 works that have not been seen by the public for over 25 years. via View full entry
A computer-generated image of what's to become the world's tallest self-supporting communications tower was unveiled on Friday in Tokyo.CBC View full entry
When the ribbon is cut this weekend and Cecil Balmond takes his first tentative steps onto a bridge he has just finished in Coimbra, Portugal, it will represent a crossover into unknown territory. After decades of service to some of the world’s most celebrated architects, this is the first... View full entry
"One of [England's] leading architects has teamed up with an ex-bank robber to design a £400 million alternative to prison." Archinect will be encaged there shortly... Building Design. View full entry
sometimes things aren't as easy as they should be. And, cities haven't quite solved the issue of public urinals either. But Victoria, B.C., is jumping on this band wagon, providing a little subtopian pee space to meet everyone's satisfaction. It's the Urilift in Gizmag. View full entry
More from the front lines of kiwi archi-madness. scroll down... View full entry
Dresden's magnificent train station has been restored to its prewar glory - by a British architect. Steve Rose on the project that brought out Norman Foster's sensitive side. Guardian View full entry
Construction photos of Daniel Libeskind's Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto flickr View full entry
Anil Goswami, a mechanical engineer partnering with a Delhi-based NGO, is still working out his design of a new low cost home for India's slum dwellers, but certainly has some good ideas. A little article on his portable shelter here. View full entry
German architect Meinhard von Gerkan has been chosen to design a Holocaust museum for the eastern German city of Leipzig. DW View full entry
The peoples over at Eyebeam are creating pop-up pneumatic structures for studio space? or creating nomadic digital context? Reblog l Flickr View full entry
As Sullivan's legacy burns in Chicago, Buffalo dress up its Wrights and its Arts and Crafts roots. Post-Gazette View full entry
Office dA and Himma unveil the new plans for the Obzee Headquarters in Seoul, Korea. View full entry
