pics of the whole process of re-useing old concrete panels.previous View full entry

A blog has the following bizarre curiosity: Daniel Libeskind Designed 911 Memorial With Above Ground WTC Ruins Opens in Padua, Italy Perpetuating a Discredited WTC Urban Nostradamus Myth. The blog also highlights more numerological devices (like the 1776' height) and claims to debunk them, a la... View full entry

Der Handschmeichler des Zyklopen (images) | Phänomene und Experimente | Zaha Hadid offre aux Allemands un centre scientifique phénoménal | Wissenschafts-Ufo mit fliegendem Teppich | last news | translation View full entry

Outside Cork, Ireland, "three new timber hermitages survey the landscape" and a "fourth perches on the rocks next to a stream." The architect - Bates Maher - "calls them Poustinia, a Russian word meaning 'a quiet place to find the peace within'." Building Design. View full entry

Steven Holl has won a competition to design The Herning Center of the Arts / Kunstens Hus Herning, in Denmark. "The new Center is intended to be an innovative forum combining visual art and music." Concepts here. (europac) View full entry

fotosdearquitectura has a gallery of the Hague's underground. more on this here and here | via View full entry

Arcspace features Alsop's recently opened Blizard Building. ed note: Cedric Price called and he wants his Palace back. View full entry

"Ali fondly remembers his Louisville benefactors, even if he has never quite forgotten the Jim Crow indignities. And so when people from New York, Las Vegas and Miami asked him to support museums in their cities honoring his career, he rejected them in favor of his hometown." (NYT) Just... View full entry

Campbell reviews Knafel Center (next door to the GSD) at Harvard by Henry Cobb. via View full entry

The Getty Villa, outside Los Angeles, is getting a facelift. "The complex, designed by Machado & Silvetti Associates of Boston, is genuinely an exquisite work of architecture. Reconfigured as an elaborate architectural narrative, it approaches the historical past with the scholarly attention... View full entry

Olympic costs "have surged because original projections allowed for inflation at 3 per cent, but inflation in the construction sector is now over 7 per cent, as the price of raw materials, particularly oil and steel, has soared." Read more at the Observer. View full entry

If the person who posted the separated-at-birth boards (which they got via Daily Dose or via their email inbox or DO) to the Archinect gallery is reading this, you might be happy to learn that there are approx. 280 more pairings for your viewing pleasure in the discussions, where it all was born... View full entry

Mecanoo 's Da Vinci College in Dordrecht commenced construction today. It is a series of ten distinct buildings for the campus to be completed in 2007. | baunetz View full entry

Members of the Chinook tribe, elected officials and Pacific County Friends of Lewis & Clark joined Maya Lin for the dedication of the first Confluence Project site at Cape Disappointment State Park today. | newswire | prev View full entry

The Urban Glass House at 330 Spring St., Johnson's posthumous finale topped off on Nov 9 and is on schedule for 2006 completion. | bizweek View full entry