The new Frank Gehry and Greg Lynn collaboration entitled Atlantis Sentosa has been made public. It's a private competition and they have paired with Kerzner & CapitaLand on a 5.6 billion singapore dollars estimated bid. Hopefully soon we'll see images from the vaguely mentioned robotanical... View full entry
...are teaming up to design an arts school for 1,800 children forced to flee their homes by Colombia's civil war. | WashPost View full entry
What might the most spontaneous architecture ever built next the Winchester House, the Broken Angel art house has been ordered hazardous by NYC Department of Buildings. NYT l UTube l brownstoner View full entry
Fiction becomes reality as angry disenchanted pro-architecture partisans plan protest in support of Steven Holl. The group is enraged slightly preterbed over Holl's dismissal/resignation from Denver Justice Center project. RMN l previous View full entry
Just what the bunkerhill boosters wanted, another tower in downtown Los Angeles. Does the math add up? Only $300 million by Los Angeles architect Richard Keating of Keating/Khang Architecture. LAtimes View full entry
Despite Steven Holl's row in Denver there is a glimmer of hope in the background in the form of the official home of the Swiss ambassador to the United States in DC--but its not so much the building as much as the realization that the Swiss Minergie Standards are vastly superior to the LEEDs... View full entry
Inspired by a glimpse of the Rocky Mountains gained as he first flew into Denver, Libeskind's new building for the Denver Art Museum sits like an alien craft amid the civic grandeur of the mile-high city's downtown. guardian View full entry
(Jean Nouvel's) (Quai) Branly isn't the first bummer of its kind. The clumsy Tate Modern in London, by Swiss starchitects Herzog & de Meuron, is a sterling earlier example. So is the ghastly Musee d'Orsay here . All such buildings are dancing for attention, trying to repeat the celebrity of... View full entry
It's an unbelievable folly, in the sense that it's a grand monument by one man to himself--it has merit... Reuters l previous l related View full entry
"Created for a priest to shelter him whilst writing sermons on his roof terrace in central London, this project is conceived as an electronic Annunciation. An undulating screen of woven stainless steel mesh veils a continuous wall of blue polycarbonate panels held in a steel frame which is... View full entry
a studio for resident artists of the CNEAI (National art center for print art) conceived by the Bourollec brothers together with architects Jean-Marie Finot and Denis Daversin. MoCo Loco View full entry
A quick look at the history of Astana, the new capital of Kazakhstan, made in the image of a single man - the country's president, Nursultan A. Nazarbayev. "The pyramid (Lord Foster), the newest addition, occupies the current end of an axis through the city's center. It links the ostentatious... View full entry
The commune's original 12 houses are in the vanguard of China's design revolution, reports The Guardian View full entry
The latest debaucle in the "Rocky Mountain Low" farce. "I couldn't get through to the mayor," Holl said from his New York office. "I said the city needs an advocate for public architecture within the city. The mayor didn't have the time to be an advocate." To add to the scandal, [and perhaps to... View full entry
With Bernard Tschumi's Acropolis Museum to open next year, the Greeks are looking to Britain to send back the Parthenon's marbles. IHT l ANA View full entry
