Innovative communist-era shopping mall in Warsaw was on the chopping block until a local website swung into to action. WSJ View full entry

"After several months of collaboration, it was concluded that the Denver Justice Center Project objectives could not allow (Steven Holl Architects) to design a building consistent with Steven Holl's design philosophy," the local architecture firm said in a statement. Rocky Mountain News | Via View full entry

New York magazine covers Jared Della Valle and Andrew Bernheimer's renovation of Paul Rudolph's former residence in NYC. Read View full entry

The ICA is still not announcing when it will open, but it's clear the museum's new building on the South Boston waterfront won't be ready until at least mid-November. BG l previous View full entry

Images of the light testing for a Breast Cancer Awareness event at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston... Go View full entry

In Paris, at the Jardin d'Acclimatation, LVMH's Bernard Arnault, unveils a "dream"; weaved by FOG, a glass facetted quasi-blob, yet to be softened into "a cloud made of glass". "I want everything to look like my drawings," Gehry went on, waving toward large reproductions of seemingly chaotic pen... View full entry

flickr photoset with numerous pics of the Entry2006 Exhibitions in OMA-designed reused Kohlenwasche building at Zollverein, including Open House: Architecture & Technology for Intelligent Living featuring classic 'houses of the future' alongside new ones by IwamotoScott, SU11, Rojkind, Mass... View full entry

The first and most obvious comment to be made about these buildings is that whatever the pious rhetoric, their proximity to sacred ground, and the care with which the reality is skirted, they are machines for making money, just as the Twin Towers were, with only some rearrangement of the square... View full entry

Chicago favorite Krueck & Sexton has been slated to build a new entombed Chicago Children's Museum under Grant Park. Trib View full entry

The brainpower at work inside the new Janelia Farm Campus in Ashburn needs something closer to a resort than just another research center. And that is exactly what Rafael Viñoly gave them. WashPost. View full entry

The movement to designate buildings like Lapidus's may have a built-in contradiction. Many of those who value what was once called kitsch also value what they call "creative destruction" in the urban environment... NYSUN View full entry

MIT today announced that it will break ground in spring 2007 for a new Media Lab designed by Pritzker Prize-winning Japanese architect Fumihiko Maki. The expansion marks a new era of innovation for the Media Lab, which has become legendary for inventions that have ignited the digital revolution... View full entry

BAM/PFA has announced Ito was picked for the new Berkeley Art Museum -- so there might actually be a new building in the Peoples Republic that doesn't try to look a giant craftsman/bungalow/mission style house... link View full entry

New management steeps the House of Blues Hotel in ugly as a part of another renovation of the former office building in architect Bertrand Goldberg's world renowned Marina City complex in Chicago, and there's nothing much anyone can do about it - Marina City isn't a designated landmark. Read all... View full entry

Go to Lincoln Center these days, and you will find that Milstein Plaza, which had been suspended across West 65th for almost 40 years, has completely vanished, as part of Lincoln Center's massive modernization effort, led by the architectural firm of Diller Scofidio + Renfro. NYSun l previous View full entry