From, tree village; "Designed primarily for student housing, the 15m high Tree Village is planned on a minimal 12m square footprint to fit a mature landscape with tall trees." Like affordable Calatravas (side note of course)m-ch View full entry

Zaha Hadid's Issam Fares Institute of Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon gets more illumination. ya libnin l Record l previous View full entry

A new arts centre by Rafael Moneo reflects Spain's rugged landscape on the outside, while giving a home to painter José Beulas's collection of 20th century art within. Building Design Online View full entry

Donald Judd, a sculptor widely admired for his investigations into architecture and design, started to develop his sense of space and installation as issues integral to his art, is being restored and renovated with the intention of opening it to the public. NYT View full entry

"Diller Scofidio + Renfro and FX Fowle's plans to transform much of New York's Lincoln Center were formally approved at a board meeting of the Lincoln Center Development Project (LCDP) on March 13. Preliminary construction is set to begin this week." ArchRecord. View full entry

"Quietly rising under the radar and chaff of today's starchitects and signature structures is a revolutionary ship-shaped building within a building that marks the beginning of a new genre of naval military training. Built around technology, theatrics and special effects, the project is the... View full entry

"Beijing is getting ready to host the 2008 Olympic Games, spending some $39bn on upgrading infrastructure and building venues." See it happen in pictures, at the BBC. View full entry

The Wynn claims to be one of the most advanced casino resorts in the world. It's coin-free. All the poker chips are RFID tagged, and there's a Shuffle Master with optical readers that can tell which cards are where on the table at any given moment. It's a fully automated casino and "can run seven... View full entry

"South Korea's biggest conservation battle ended Thursday as the Supreme Court ruled in favor of continuing construction on the controversial Saemangeum sea wall, which when completed will become the longest in the world. The massive $3.58 billion project aims to convert some 99,000 acres of... View full entry

In the race to create the world's tallest structures, the United States seems to be have a harder time getting it up. On a new list of the tallest buildings of 2005 from the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, only one, Cesar Pelli's Bloomberg Tower in New York, is in America. Is history... View full entry

A Protestant parish in Berlin needs help saving its Bauhuas-style church. But funds may not come pouring in as it is littered with Third Reich symbols. Spiegel View full entry

Pharma giant Novartis is pushing ahead with its Campus project, which aims to transform an industrial zone in the city of Basel into a major research centre. Top architects are lining up: Diener & Diener, Peter Märkli, Austrian Adolf Krischanitz, Frank Kazuyo Sejima, Ryue... View full entry

Or, Pre-fab for Crabs. Little plastic shelters for hermit crabs, whose housing crisis can be attributed, in part, to human seashell collection ... Cabinet Mag View full entry

Calatrava waves his magic marker and secures planning approval for the Fordham Spire. "With this approval, we're on our way to adding another architectural treasure to this great city," says the developer. Crain's Chicago Business View full entry

The "world's first inflatable folly" is now on display at the Royal Institute of British Architects. Designed by FAT, it's modeled after nothing other than Boullée's Cenotaph for Newton... Read more at RIBA. BLDGBLOG. View full entry