"What is that pterodactyl monstrosity down at Seventh and Mission?" the San Francisco resident asked in a phone message. "It looks like it's going to flap away and eat something. What are they trying to do? I'm mystified." SFGATE View full entry
Two prominent fancy Chicago-based architects are working on projects for the homeless in Chicago. And boy do we sing the accolades before they even open? NYT View full entry
Only in Chicago can an architecture critic draw a line through two completely different projects to promote an agenda. Blair Kamin reports on SANAA's Glass Pavilion of the Toledo Museum of Art and Valerio Dewalt and Train's Kresge Foundation Headquarters. View full entry
Just launched a video for Gucci's flagship in Tokyo; building by James Carpenter Associates, music by Sasha, video by the Foundry (link goes to page w/ 30MB video) View full entry
In January, it was the K.A.M. Pilgrim Baptist Church. Little more than a week ago, it was the 1887 Wirt Dexter Building. Today, an early morning blaze has made the George M. Harvey House the third Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan landmark to be destroyed by fire just this year. Architectural... View full entry
Zaha Hadid has beeb named the winner of the international architecture competition Betile, for the a Mediterranean Museum of Nuragic and Contemporary Art on the seafront at Sant'Elia in Cagliari. Domus View full entry
Fire early Saturday destroyed a historic North Side house designed by Louis Sullivan. The George Harvey House, was designed by Sullivan and fellow architect Dankmar Adler and was completed in 1888. nyt | 10/30/06, 10/25/06, 8/27/06, 1/7/06 View full entry
The expanded Griffith Observatory ”” a Los Angeles landmark ”” is to reopen Friday after being closed almost five years and undergoing $93 million of reconstruction. nyt View full entry
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
