Pardon me its The Hall of Opium View full entry

Steven Holl Architects 'Cité du Surf et de l'Océan, Ville de Biarritz, France' project has been selected as winning scheme from an international competition that included the offices of E. Miralles/B.Tagliabue, Brochet Lajus Pueyo, B.Tschumi and J.-M. Willmotte. The City of Biarritz... View full entry

John King : "You don't expect to find one of San Francisco's most humane new buildings at the corner of Sixth and Howard streets, right in the squalid heart of Skid Row. But that's where the new Plaza Apartments stand stocky and tall -- an eight-story cube that not only is designed to provide... View full entry

Domus is now offering virtual tours of the buildings profiled in their magazine "thanks to a preconfigured itinerary that can be loaded in Google Earthâ„¢." View full entry

Artforum has just published, in its March issue, a large portfolio featuring architectural responses to the disaster wrought by Hurricane Katrina. The proposals were solicited from MVRDV, Huff + Gooden, UN Studio, Morphosis, West 8, and Hargreaves Associates by Red Kroloff, dean of Tulane... View full entry

Norman Foster's giant glass canopy roof for the Hong Kong government's $5 billion West Kowloon Cultural Complex (WKCC) has been scrapped. l ARecord l But Foster continues to move on the little island in the Great Bear. l Bloomberg l View full entry

Work will soon be getting underway on C.C. Pei's U.S. National Slavery Museum, a project deep in the territory of the old Confederacy, that aims to help Americans reflect critically on "one of the most misreported and misunderstood institutions in American history." Reuters | prev View full entry

NYC rejects a pilot program for these escape pods: lifeboats off skyscrapers for emergency evacuations. cnn View full entry

The Swiss Army Knife of Houses by Urs Flueckiger (Prof. at Texas Tech University) in the New York Times. View full entry

Plans were unveiled today to build the greenest housing estate Brighton will perhaps ever see. The 16-home development would be the first colony of Earthships, designed by Mike Reynolds. The developers, Biotecture, claims the homes will be so energy efficient they will have no utility bills, and... View full entry

For those of you who wanted more Zaha. Or specifically more images of the new library project at the Universidad de Sevilla, look no further. l previous l View full entry

MVRDV reconcentrates the concept behind their ill-fated serpentine pavilion to RELand New Orleans. via l previous View full entry

Hong Kong Halts Plans for Arts Center: outdoor canopy designed by Norman Foster scrapped. || Meanwhile, the Asia Society plans two large projects including a $52 million center in Hong Kong designed by Tod Williams and Billie Tsien and a $40 million center in Houston by Yoshio Taniguchi. || And... View full entry

WEMBLEY builders told last night how they cashed in at the bookies ”” over their failure to finish the new stadium on time. sun. I wonder if any Foster and Partners employees cashed in on it? View full entry

Zaha Hadid is to build an institute on her old alma mater's campus. As significant and prestigious as that is for the AUB it is equally significant for Lebanon - this will be the first Hadid building to be constructed in the country. DailyStar View full entry