Days before the fifth anniversary of the destruction of New York's World Trade Center by terrorists, city officials gathered on the site where the Twin Towers once stood to dedicate the newly completed 9/11 Memorial Hole. View full entry
In his first column, the new architecture and design critic hails the Brick House in Notting Hill - a surprise Stirling Prize contender - as a brilliant use of cramped urban space. Could this be the death knell for swaggering celebrity architecture? Guardian View full entry
The group is upset over the planned 178 foot tower and a huge crane that is to be installed (to move art around)Gothamist > View full entry
"Designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Thom Mayne," the new headquarters for NOAA "appears as a slash of corrugated steel and prefabricated panels, fronted with a billboard-sized NOAA sign and topped by a half-dozen satellite dishes. Most of its 208,000 square feet are hidden beneath a... View full entry
The BBC takes a in depth look at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' new levees in New Orleans, which, as we probably all know by now, are only as good as they were prior to Katrina. View full entry
The Swiss Residence, a 2001 competition-winning collaboration between Steven Holl and Swiss firm Rüssli Architects, will be unveiled to the public on September 16. Press release and photos follow... Washington, D.C. – The Swiss Residence in Washington, D.C. by... View full entry
Innaugural exhibition for Libeskind's Denver Art museum, October 7 & 8. DAM | New DAM Home | via View full entry
As flood resistant floating architecture catches the attention of the Katrina imagineers, nobody so far is able to deal with 100+ mph hurricanes, capable of blowing barges away. Waterstudio tries. Turn in your FEMA trailer, get a boathouse? View full entry
Standing in front of the new Glass Pavilion at the Toledo Museum of Art can reawaken that belief in the power of glass to enchant. NY Times View full entry
Choosing the best of British, or simply a television-style gameshow? Jonathan Glancey reflects.Guardian also here View full entry
Steven Holl Architects announces the opening of the University of Iowa's School of Art & Art History on September 8th. The building gives form to the innovative interdisciplinary educational model of the school by integrating dynamic spaces within implied volumes and indeterminate boundaries... View full entry
A friend of ours, the six dollar man, went for a vizzit with the folks from SANAA and his own officemates, 2x4, took a bunch of pictures and posted em on flickr. check it out. View full entry
The votes are in for the most innovative and outstanding architectural lighting projects of 2006. See the projects of the 3rd Annual A|L Light & Architecture Design Awards. A|L l previous Outstanding Achievement Awards Detroit Athletic Club SmithGroup, Detroit Hotel Puerta America Isometrix... View full entry
Things are shaping up in Jinhua where Ai Wei Wei has organized a coterie of pavilions. You want it, you got it: boxy, mushroomy, crunchy, woodsy, and more... | All projects View full entry
The LA Time's Christopher Hawthorne reviews SANAA's Glass Pavilion in Ohio. Read View full entry
