St. Petersburg's Hermitage Museum plans to complete work by 2009 on a $100 million expansion that will allow more of the museum's collection to be on public display. Perhaps the bigger question is will it be Rem or Studio 44? Bloomberg View full entry

Royal Festival Hall - "London's rough equivalent of Carnegie Hall, with more than 340 performances in a typical year and a reputation as the city's flagship auditorium - has been closed since June for a major renovation and is not scheduled to reopen until June 2007." The effects of this closure... View full entry

Hyde Park Miriam Matthews Branch Library by Hodgetts + Fung Design and Architecture...presented by ANN View full entry

Lord Rogers' Terminal 4 airport in Madrid, considered the world's largest airport terminal, is soon to open. But boom towns around it are voicing complaints of wreckless planning of noise mitigation and threats of eviction for future expansion. - Guardian View full entry

The Modern would have us believe that they are currently engaged in the perfectly legitimate task of rethinking that landscape--of giving its modern perspectives a postmodern overhaul--Lowry has in fact turned the whole damn landscape into a mall in which Picasso, Matisse, and Mondrian are merely... View full entry

Blair Kamin gives Thom Mayne's University of Cincinnati student rec building a standing-o, drawing parallels to Jefferson's UVA and San Gimignano. Trib | www.bugmenot.com just in case. View full entry

Renzo Piano went to LACMA this week and unveiled updates to the museum's renovation, but "the combination of a tight budget and an ill-matched collection of existing buildings is severely testing those ("fine-tuning") skills." Read more. View full entry

Estudio Carme Pinos designed & built this naturally-ventilated office tower in a business district of Guadalajara. The plan is a bit like a rotor or a ceiling fan and the wood-skinned offices are grouped into various masses hoisted off the earth by a central concrete core open to the sky... View full entry

Albert Speer Junior described as 'son of Hitler's architect' won the design competition.'With its plans to build a city neighborhood dedicated to the car industry Changchun, China is taking another ambitious step toward becoming a key player in the global automotive industry.'link View full entry

Italian architect Giorgio De Romanis' design is to be built connecting Croatia and Italy with a 120 km long bridge with all kinds of supporting facilities. See the project via Bild.de View full entry

Mayor Bloomberg used the first State of the City speech of his new term yesterday to call for a drastic change in the WTC development plan so the project can finally move forward. NYT View full entry

Perhaps taking his cue from the good old engineers at the Bartenbach Light Laboratory in Aldrans, Austria, the mayor of Viganella (a village tucked in a dark valley in Italy), is hoping to get further approval to place a "16-foot high by 26-foot wide mirror on the mountainside that would track... View full entry

The Scots have always been know for the frugal nature, so what happens when Zaha Hadid's Riverside Transportation Museum in Glasgow goes over budget by £10million? Evening l previous View full entry

New York Times slide show of the Hearst Headquarters by Norman Foster in Manhattan. View full entry

Höweler + Yoon / MY Studio are exhibiting work at Northeastern University's Ryder Hall through March 15, 2006. With little to no budget, Höweler + Yoon addressed issues of architectural representation by pixelating the wall itself with self-adhesive labels. "ONE dpi... View full entry