Here are more snapshots of Herzog and DeMeuron's Beijing Stadium under construction. Previously | Via View full entry
Gov. George E. Pataki's senior adviser for counterterrorism has concluded that the design for the memorial at ground zero leaves it vulnerable to a terrorist attack and has called on the architects to consider revising several critical aspects. NYT View full entry
Inhabitat's Sarah Rich sends word of this year's top 10 AIA Committee on the Environment projects. See Inhabitat for project views and info. Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, Croxton Collaborative Architects, and Mahlum Architects all are repeat winners. View full entry
A California woman is going ahead with the construction of a house made of elements from a 747 Jumbo jet. BBC View full entry
"There are two primary schools of thought on dam building: the instinctive school and the adaptive school," [local beaver] Messner said, studying the river's current. "I'm more of an integration-minded postmodernist. I don't believe that form should follow function, like most of my colleagues do... View full entry
Thirteen years after construction began on the controversial Three Gorges Dam on China's biggest river, work on the project, often compared to the Great Wall in its scale, is nearly complete.full story.. View full entry
New York couldn't get its Freedom Museum off the ground. Chicago's McCormick Tribune Freedom Museum is already open. From red-baiting Colonel McCormick, to wardrobe malfunctions, to Mae West and Charlie McCarthy, read all about the exhibits and new design by VOA & Associates and Gallagher... View full entry
"The UN headquarters is an architectural reminder of international collaboration and deserves to be brought back to full, functioning life." Guardian. View full entry
By the time the new 7 World Trade Center, a knife-edged 52-story office tower made of clear "water white" glass, made its nightlife debut in November of last year, I had stopped paying attention to the ongoing drama down at Ground Zero. ... nothing good seemed destined to happen down there. So... View full entry
Some images of (recently-deceased) Harry Seidler's work...in the Gallery (thanks to john mccay) View full entry
Curbed SF says that a museum will grow in Berkeley. (Rumored) shortlist: Allied Works, Toyo Ito, SANAA, Kengo Kuma. View full entry
Daniel Libeskind's Crystal Expansion at the ROM in Toronto. Here is the link. Flickr View full entry
Leah Beeferman , graphic designer for Cabinet Magazine, has teamed up with BLDGBLOG to announce the helicopter archipelago: a flying island chain made entirely of solar-powered helicopters, complete with flag and postage stamp. It's an airborne microtopia over the oceans of the world! Future... View full entry
Spotted in the Gallery: Barozzi Veiga Architects of Barcelona won a competition in Spain for a new visitor's center and headquarters for the regulating council of the Ribera del Duero wines in Burgos. View Images Fabrizio Barozzi and Alberto Veiga are a young duo of architects with experience... View full entry
Almost 7,000 buildings of more than 11 stories have been built in Shanghai since 1990. One of them, KPF-designed World Financial Center now under construction, is going to be the tallest in the world (until this or this happens). | asiatimes | related View full entry
