Gehry's monstrosity is forced to shrink by 8% by the city planning commission. But will this appease the pissed off neighbors who think this is still too big and ugly? NYTimes View full entry

Jersey City has selected OMA to design 111 First St., an artist-in-residence community. Koolhaas will develop the plans for the 1.3 million-sq.-ft. multistory residential building with 710 apartments, 16,000sf for art galleries and roughly 52,000sf for retail stores, a restaurant and a cabaret... View full entry

In an exclusive preview, Dale Fuchs takes a look around Gehry's latest masterpiece, a wavy titanium-clad hotel on a 150-year old bodega. Guardian View full entry

So now an agreement with the Port Authority and Larry Silverstein places the 'freedom tower' out of his control. Then again, if he fails to complete his end of the deal, he loses all- yeah for zero growth in lower manhattan. Why do we need a gazillion new square feet of office space? NYtimes View full entry

The scene was bizarre: renowned architect Rem Koolhaas was dressed in a track suit and standing behind a turntable as a disco ball spun and a stray llama drifted by in the background. Watching this animation on a screen, the Bailey Hall audience who had come to hear Koolhaas' plans for Milstein... View full entry

The North Carolina Museum of Art is to announce tonight a $138 million expansion, designed by Thomas Phifer. In addition to the new building, the project includes an adapted reuse of the museum's existing Edward Durrell Stone building. NYT l NCMA View full entry

The Grand Avenue project, the most ambitious mixed-use development initiative in downtown Los Angeles in a generation, is facing substantial cost overruns, and the project's architect, Frank Gehry, is working feverishly to bring them into line. NYT View full entry

Few places in the world will be able to match the planned Ground Zero of 2012 in terms of the concentration of work by architectural superstars...FT View full entry

It's not that one, but a contender of her time nevertheless, in this undated story. Detroit News View full entry

A new charity is helping Tube Lines, the company responsible for rebuilding the Tube's busiest lines, to recycle obsolete Tube carriages which have been lying disused for years. Read. Check out a couple of carriages in Flickr. But the graffers got there first! View full entry

In anticipation of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, plans are in the works for an information age Olympic (data) HQ. | coolhunt View full entry

Melbourne architects Jackson Clements Burrows addressed a hertiage restriction through tattoo and chameleon-like mimicry. | NOTCOT View full entry

Just another Flickr photoset for the weekend View full entry

from here go to here... Added bonus: birdsnest stadium View full entry

José Rafael Moneo Arquitecto, the Madrid-based firm headed by award-winning architect José Rafael Moneo, has been chosen to design Princeton University's new neuroscience and psychology buildings... News@Princeton View full entry