It's built like a summer camp, complete with too many porches, excess barns, a perpetual bonfire, shirtless men, and lots of young hot chiquitas - but there's something sinister in the air: it's the global HQ of Abercrombie & Fitch: Salon. Brand Avenue.Complete Salon Article: The man behind... View full entry
Find a few construction shots of the new Ibere Camargo Foundation by Alavaro Siza in Brasil. see the foundation site for more images of the proj. Camargo died in 1994 leaving over 7000 works to the foundation. View full entry
The Getty Villa is reopening this week after a 12-year, $275m renovation. Its new raison d'etre: to house and display the museum's extensive, and lately disputed, classical antiquities collection. Emily Carr takes a tour with architect Jorge Silvetti. Read View full entry
Pimps, prostitutes and a dentist create a media frenzy that may forge a new aura for Bertrand Goldberg's Marina City. Read about it here View full entry
The NYT's Magazine catches a glimpse of Tom Kundig's (Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen), weathered steel cabin, a small little cable-and-pulley wonder-on-stilts that perches along the Methow River in eastern Washington State. View full entry
"For city dwellers, the word "loft" generally evokes sprawling, spartan space and individual yet fiercely voguish style. But in Stuttgart, a pair of bright young things have created a loft with a difference." A review of some micro digs in the Deutsche Welle. View full entry
It will be the most important Jewish history museum in Europe, and it will be located in the most sensitive spot: The museum for the history of Polish Jewry will be built where the Warsaw Ghetto used to stand. A few weeks ago, project director, Jerzy Halbersztadt, submitted a master plan to a... View full entry
SANAA's New Museum (opening 2007) has Ouroussoff all giddy as he uses it to take another shot at MoMA and The Whitney. | nytimes View full entry
After announcing his design for a "Shanghai International Design Center" earlier this year, Tadao Ando gave a lecture in the city just recently and spoke on the architectural movement in China, and his plans for the new building, which are on display at his exhibition in Shanghai. You can glimpse... View full entry
Steven Holl Architects , in collaboration with Denver-based firm klipp Architecture, has been selected as design lead for a new district courthouse in Denver. l ArchRecord l Also, coverage by Metropolis on the Holl addition to Pratt's Architecture School. View full entry
Peter Eisenman's long road to stadium is nearing completion in Arizona. l interior design l az l View full entry
"After 363 pilgrims were killed at the entrance to a ramp leading up to the columns, raising fresh calls for a solution to the notoriously dangerous section of the hajj," the NYT spoke with Osama al-Bar, director of the Haj Research Center, about the re-engineering of what will go on to be one of... View full entry
The Sydney Opera House by Jorn Utzon (and company) has been nominated as a UNESCO World Heritage, along with Statue of Liberty, Tower of London and the Kremlin. l ChinaPost l UNESCO also has an interesting call for papers for all you conservationists. View full entry
Sudjic lets Chipperfield ask the tough questions in the Marburg Museum of Literature: What happens when a vertical column meets a horizontal beam? What happens when two walls defined by evenly spaced columns turn acorner? | guardian View full entry
"...cracks have appeared in its concrete slabs, Reuters reported yesterday" says a quickie in the Times. A longer article in el mundo (trans) describes the quick wear and tear on the Eisenman-designed memorial as the product of strollers, kids jumping from one slab to another and people setting... View full entry
