Last year, volunteer monitors with Arizona State Parks reported 212 vandalism incidents, 27 lootings, 21 trashed signs, two unearthed human remains, 13 cases of spray-painting and two petroglyph thefts. tucsonweekly | via planetizen.com View full entry
You may recognize this from Danny Forster's show: it's the first retractable playing field in North America, where the whole darn grass-covered thing rolls right out of the stadium. Mobile terrain, indeed: ENR. View full entry
AOC 's recently completed early years unit in London gets an appraisal in anticipation of Architecture Week UK. | bbc View full entry
Images of the new Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis by Jean Nouvel. 1 2. NA View full entry
P.S. 64 was landmarked earlier this week, the developer Gregg Singer plans to strip the ornamental facade and copper roof later this week in hopes of overturning the status. Follow the story here: village voice View full entry
That time of year again!? Obra's installation opens tomorrow. Catch some construction progress in flickr: here, here and here. View full entry
The Erie Plaza Project by StoSS LU garners further support. Is Milwaukee changing? View full entry
Price Tower is also one of "the most famous of Wright's unknown buildings". w post View full entry
For eight years, curators, conservators, lighting experts and stonemasons have been making small but significant improvements to the five medieval cloisters that were fashioned into a museum in 1938. NY Times View full entry
BD's website is now publishing lectures by UKs leading architects and fortunately you don't need to go thru the annoying registration process to access them. 1st and 2nd in series Charles Holland of FAT and Chris Wilkinson of Wilkinson Eyre. Download >> View full entry
Nissan North America unveiled plans for its new corporate headquarters in Cool Springs (TN) on Thursday afternoon, presenting a stylized glass-and-metallic building fronted by a public lawn that could be used for corporate bashes, charitable events and civic functions. The Tennessean View full entry
In Spain a new type of city is emerging through fusing past sensiblities with an optimistic view of the future. Through the work of a collaborative group of architects a neighbourhood designed around principle order systems of the past are intergated as a improtant vision for the future. Guardian View full entry
A concept in a white tower, known as the Freedom Tower on the former WTC site is again losing traction even as the foundations for (the) freedom are being laid. NYT View full entry
The design of Dancing Towers at Business Bay, Dubai was unveiled at New York's Guggenheim Museum this week as part of a retrospective exhibition on Zaha Hadid. She was recently declared the winner of an international competition to design three iconic towers at Business Bay. More on 7 days. View full entry
Just came across this amazing residential project by Ben Van Berkel and Caroline Bos built with Brooklyn contractors to keep it real I guess. View full entry