Canadian Architect updates the good works of Architecture for Humanity with its endeavors in Grenada and Sri Lanka. View full entry
Dose features a cool project by Studio Archea in Bargino for Marchesi Antinori Winery. Ah Chianti! View full entry
Ninety percent of the ancient Islamic city of Medina Azahara lies buried beneath the outskirts of Córdoba, which is being developed for new housing. NYT View full entry
The pros and cons of involving children in the design and building of a new theatre are being set out in a report. BBC News | related BBC link | related link View full entry
A nearly 100-year-old Frank Lloyd Wright-designed church (Unity Temple) near Chicago will reportedly become the first Wright landmark to utilize geothermal energy. Physorg.com View full entry
Frontline (online) follows one Jewish man's journey to understand Germans, parallel to the German Holocaust memorial competition. View full entry
It's going to be a pre-opening week for the De Young museum, one of Herzog and DeMeuron's latest projects. "Real" opening on Oct 15. Read View full entry
Well, Disney already owned "imagineering". Inventioneering Architecture is an upcoming exhibit in San Francisco, co-sponsed by Swissnex and a collective of European and Bay Area design schools. The month long exhibit will coincide with the opening of the new de Young Museum by Herzog and de... View full entry
"John Simpson, the British architect who recently built the Queen's Gallery at Buckingham Palace, has just completed his first building in New York. It is a four-story mansion replacing the former Lycée Français next door to the Carhart Mansion." Described as "classical... View full entry
This is the age of the Bilbao effect, with city after city using iconic architecture as part of an ambitious regeneration plan. The latest addition to the postcard-friendly pantheon is Portsmouth's Spinnaker Tower, designed to be seen along - and oversee - a resurgent South Coast. The Daily... View full entry
Update on the Albert Place Casino Commission for Steven Holl (news): archrecord | rendering | more at stevenholl The four other short-listed firms were Herzog & de Meuron, Basel; Jakob + MacFarlane, Paris; Neutelings-Riedijk Architecten, Rotterdam; and Zaha Hadid Architects, London. View full entry
Apparently Snohetta won't have so much trouble with the size of the Freedom Center at Ground Zero after all. The project doesn't seem to have tenants anymore. The LMDC keeps raising the bar on them and the content of their exhibitions about "freedom." And the head of the LMDC doesn't seem to... View full entry
The "sala" -School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture- at Penn State is nearing completion of a new building by Overland Partners (read more). See the progress on this flickr photoset. View full entry
"Jaffe, who was a fan of Japanese Kabuki theater, would 'choreograph the experience of his clients and their weekend guests,' as if they were actors in a play." He would use "striking angles and raw wood skins (...) (d)uring construction of their house," and "Jaffe kept changing plans, sketching... View full entry
Goldman Sachs has agreed to build a $2 billion new headquarters across the street from the former World Trade Center site, reversing its decision this spring to abandon its building plans, according to city, state and company officials who have been briefed on the investment firm's plans...In... View full entry