What ever happened to the Penn Station expansion project and its many redesigns? Well, after several roadblocks it sits in the closet of inevitabilities. NYT View full entry
Developer Aby Rosen is the man behind Norman Foster's proposed condo tower at 980 Madison Avenue. nyt View full entry
Rainforest Ventures Ltd (RVL) is planning a development to be placed somewhere in the northwest of England, consisting of a hotel with views into an Eden project inspired tropical greenhouse. BBC1 / BBC2 View full entry
OMA just finishes the studies for a mayor masterplan which foresees to connect via an underground tunnel The Hague and Rotterdamedgargonzalez.com View full entry
Check out the new Metropolis and get a glimpse on what's going on at Asymptote these days. In recent years, Hani Rashid and Lise Ann Couture have been steadily moving towards tangible material architecture with an array of pretty serious commissions, and a very fresh staff on board. Note: If in... View full entry
A five-alarm fire Tuesday claimed the landmark Wirt Dexter building in Chicago's south Loop, one of the few surviving structures from the partnership of Louis Sullivan and Dankmar Adler, raises questions about the city's commitment to protecting its architectural legacy. Repeat View full entry
With no director and a board in flux, the Dia Art Foundation has scrapped its plans to open a museum at the entrance to the High Line...Link Rumors that this could have an affect on the Whitney addition by Piano are now out. View full entry
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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
