Coney's grand Vegas-style renderings have been scaled back, and from the renderings, it looks like there are a few red 'follies' along the boardwalk. via CIAoffice.com View full entry
Delays and budgest cuts for Maxxi-Rome, Zaha Hadid's art center in the eternal city? read | prev View full entry
Michael Sorkin has a New Plan for Ground Zero. via View full entry
After a year of false-starts, the Serpentine Gallery has declared that MVRDV's ambitious Grass Mountain will just never happen. Instead, Koolhaas has been selected to design the annual summer pavilion -- in his first UK project. Guardian | Previously View full entry
A little-known 1887 Chicago church by Daniel Burnham and John Wellborn Root is rescued and rediscovered in all its original warm beauty. Read it here View full entry
Friends of David Whitney, the respected art curator who died last June, launched a building fund in his honor at New York's Gagosian Gallery on December 9. archrecord View full entry
Paul Goldberger reviews Norman Foster's new Hearst Building in the current New Yorker. View full entry
"Peter Noever (MAK Center) envisions a space for applied and contemporary arts in Austria's windowless Arenbergpark Flak Tower, from which Nazis shot at Allied planes during World War II." Read View full entry
The Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research at U of Toronto by Behnisch + Behnisch with architects Alliance is smart. | globemail View full entry
Charles Rose tackles the difficult task of adding on to an existing house that isn't too pretty.| NYTIMES View full entry
Some minor adjustments to the plan for a new San Mamés stadium in the Olabeaga neighbourhood of Bilbao, include removing 5,000 from the overall seating capacity, and a four-lane underground way. eitb. Related: Durango View full entry
A list of residential high-rises constructed in the last few years in Beijing. Harpers View full entry
Today, Seattle opens an "urban oasis" and what promises to be a one-of-a-kind urban park, below a massive freeway structure: the I-5 Colonnade. View full entry
Inspired by a housing row in Spain...Santiago Cirugeda, architect of "Strategies for subversive occupation", built the "Casa de pollo" (Chicken House), a 30 sq meter prototype in Barcelona a few weeks ago, during the EME3 festival. WM$NA Just one week to erect. View full entry
A new skyscraper is being presented to the Kuwaiti government - if built, it will be 200m taller than the Burj Dubai. It will be, yes, one kilometer in height. New Scientist. View full entry
