There are disputes over the symbolism of the 9/11 memorial, as new construction documents last week revealed a radical shift: "that thousands of unidentified remains of 9/11 victims would not be entombed in the monolith planned as the memorial's bedrock-level centerpiece." NYTimes View full entry

Feast your eyes on the mall of the future in Bern, Switzerland: "home to the forward-looking leisure and shopping paradise which is scheduled for inauguration in 2008." Promo site | Gallery | Via And so Libeskind continues to make the world even more beautiful. View full entry

Environmentalists have begun a campaign to save a church worked on by Michelangelo from ruin after the use of explosives on the underlying Tuscan hillside raised fears that the 1000-year-old building could collapse. IND View full entry

...to read all the lawsuits? Was taking charge of the CD's on the Kimmel Center in Philly a bad idea for RVAPC? Life Getting Hot For Architect Rafael Viñoly | previously View full entry

At the Whitney, Marcel Breuer's "relentless Brutalist grid" on the ceiling and split-slate floors has a knack for over-powering the artwork. Richard Tuttle deals. NYTimes View full entry

"For all too many planners, particularly in the fussier London boroughs - where those with the money to build something modern tend to live - new architecture is seen as a sort of contagion that needs to be kept firmly under control. But when the neighbours cannot complain, there is not much they... View full entry

Norman Foster has beaten New York at its own game with a tower that raises the high-rise stakes. Next stop ... Ground Zero. Deyan Sudjic, in the Guardian. Plus, "Elena Ochoa is a power behind Norman Foster's success and one of a growing cabal of influential architects' wives. Now she's about to... View full entry

Anne Papageorge, landscape architect, is the LMDC design director of the WTC memorial (opening Sept. 11, 2009). "The only component I underestimated was the fact that everyone's eyes are on this project." | nytimes View full entry

Benjamin Forgey at the Washington Post holds Richard Meier's Burda Museum in Germany high regard. | wpost View full entry

A rehab opens up the bunker-like Harold Washington College and helps heal a dispirited Chicago Loop corner. Read about it here. View full entry

"Work on a $24 million mosque and Islamic center in Boston's Roxbury neighborhood has been halted by charges of an improper land sale and ties to radical Islam. Mosque leaders accuse local media of 'misrepresentative' reporting." - csmonitor. Also, prev: wiretapping mosques (via) View full entry

So, as Ban's Nomadic Museum heads to the pier of Santa Monica to open in just a couple of weeks, apparently the original builders welded the structures together so that it had to be trashed. Doh! Now they have taken to designing a new nomadic structural system that “comes apart piece by... View full entry

The station area of Arnhem Central has been announced as the winner of the Schreudersprize for innovative, multiple use underground construction. The new station area has been designed by UN Studio and Arup. PR via Dexigner View full entry

Work has begun on Moshe Safdie's Advertising Icon Museum, in Kansas City, a space "devoted to giving Tony the Tiger, Mr. Peanut and the California Raisins their proper places in history" And, "will feature hundreds of toys, dolls, display figurines, cereal bowls, coffee mugs and ashtrays... View full entry

The almost complete Leipzig Art Museum by the little known assemblage of Hufnagel, Putz and Rafaelian is taking shape from the inside out. | wpost View full entry