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

Mack Scogin Merrill Elam are becoming the gurus of campus architecture. Recently unveiled their scheme for Carnegie Mellon Gates Center. | tartan View full entry

Lustron Corporation is giving away 58 vintage prefab housese to anyone who wants them. The catch is, you have to haul them away from the site yourself: LUSTRON View full entry

Actually now the mystery is over. It was first the Radikal and later, Archinect broadcasted to the world more than 2 mounths ago, way before Prizker wants you to know, the whereabouts of the party. If it all goes as told by Kemal Yilmaz in one short middle paragraph, it will take a place in Aya... View full entry

Antwerp's soaring new law court, designed by Richard Rogers, will bring some much-needed light and air into the Belgian legal system. By Jonathan Glancey View full entry

With wordwide shipping surging, the Panal canal fnds itself operating at full capacity, and is now set for a major relift. $7.5 billion will add "two new 3-chamber locks are to be built at the Pacific and Atlantic ends of the canal, creating a third lane of traffic capable of handling large... View full entry