AOC 's recently completed early years unit in London gets an appraisal in anticipation of Architecture Week UK. | bbc View full entry

Images of the new Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis by Jean Nouvel. 1 2. NA View full entry

P.S. 64 was landmarked earlier this week, the developer Gregg Singer plans to strip the ornamental facade and copper roof later this week in hopes of overturning the status. Follow the story here: village voice View full entry

That time of year again!? Obra's installation opens tomorrow. Catch some construction progress in flickr: here, here and here. View full entry

The Erie Plaza Project by StoSS LU garners further support. Is Milwaukee changing? View full entry

Price Tower is also one of "the most famous of Wright's unknown buildings". w post View full entry

For eight years, curators, conservators, lighting experts and stonemasons have been making small but significant improvements to the five medieval cloisters that were fashioned into a museum in 1938. NY Times View full entry

BD's website is now publishing lectures by UKs leading architects and fortunately you don't need to go thru the annoying registration process to access them. 1st and 2nd in series Charles Holland of FAT and Chris Wilkinson of Wilkinson Eyre. Download >> View full entry

Nissan North America unveiled plans for its new corporate headquarters in Cool Springs (TN) on Thursday afternoon, presenting a stylized glass-and-metallic building fronted by a public lawn that could be used for corporate bashes, charitable events and civic functions. The Tennessean View full entry

In Spain a new type of city is emerging through fusing past sensiblities with an optimistic view of the future. Through the work of a collaborative group of architects a neighbourhood designed around principle order systems of the past are intergated as a improtant vision for the future. Guardian View full entry

A concept in a white tower, known as the Freedom Tower on the former WTC site is again losing traction even as the foundations for (the) freedom are being laid. NYT View full entry

The design of Dancing Towers at Business Bay, Dubai was unveiled at New York's Guggenheim Museum this week as part of a retrospective exhibition on Zaha Hadid. She was recently declared the winner of an international competition to design three iconic towers at Business Bay. More on 7 days. View full entry

Just came across this amazing residential project by Ben Van Berkel and Caroline Bos built with Brooklyn contractors to keep it real I guess. View full entry

From the Financial Times Editorial... There have been many radically different design proposals for the Freedom Tower, the awkwardly named skyscraper that (we are told) will begin rising soon from the World Trade Center site in lower Manhattan. But through all the design changes, there have been... View full entry

Lincoln Center's Harmony Atrium renovation shortlists 8: Allied Works; Behnisch Architects; Imaginary Forces and Greg Lynn FORM; Klein Dytham Architecture; Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects; Morphosis; and Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects. | nytimes View full entry