There are only about 60 gold-standard green buildings in the world. One of those buildings is in Beijing - China's Ministry of Science and Technology, at 55 Yuyuantan Nanlu Street. Thomas Friedman NY Times View full entry

"THE architect who designed the failed waterfront Fourth Grace Cloud project is making a comeback in the city with a building described as Liverpool's "third Cathedral". Will Alsop last night revealed he was in talks with Lewis Biggs, chief executive of Liverpool Biennial, to take part in the... View full entry

Compact and bijou, could a nine foot cubic pod provide an answer to Britain's housing shortage? Architect Richard Horden of Horden Cherry Lee, believes at the very least they make for some good short-term solutions. Read Here & in the BBC View full entry

4 nice passing higway shots of Eisenman's Arizona Cardinals arena under construction. gallery View full entry

Once outrageous architect Renzo Piano now shows a quiet elegance. Did he lose his edge””or find his soul? Newsweek Also, in NYT, an interview with Richard Meier and Renzo Piano. "Richard Meier built a landmark, then Renzo Piano built on top of it. So why are the two architects still... View full entry

In the grounds of a Georgian house in Wiltshire stands a garden pavilion on an opulent scale, a 21st-century equivalent of the folly-building of the 18th. It is the only British building by the Chinese-American architect IM Pei, famous for the great glass pyramid and new galleries at the Louvre... View full entry

The steel is up (trussed me), the floor is poured, and the cladding is going up. I wonder if Dr. NO has got his plane ticket yet. New pics of ICA Boston. View full entry

"The Stillwell Avenue station," in New York, "has been heralded as a revolutionary design thanks to its extensive use of solar power - a rarity in municipal transportation services in the United States. On a sunny day, 60,000 square feet of integrated solar paneling on its roof can generate... View full entry

Moshe Safdie to build history museum on the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway between the North End and Quincy Market, Boston. Museum gets the green light View full entry

"Working around and atop the underwater tubes of the Lincoln Tunnel, crews constructed a new $56-million ferry terminal in midtown Manhattan that opened Oct. 24. In addition to sprucing up the New York City waterfront along the Hudson River, the terminal is seen as a potential evacuation route... View full entry

After François Pinault declined to build an Ando museum in Paris, bigillionaire pissing rival Bernard Arnault, chairman of LVMH, decided to hire Frank Gehry for a 6,337-square-foot center for contemporary art, now that Gehry's other Paris project has reopened after a nearly-permanent... View full entry

A Paris building by Frank Gehry is now the home of la Cinematheque francaise, a center for film. NYT - "What makes this transformation unusual is that it was not carried out by Mr. Gehry, although he did participate in the selection of Dominique Brard of l'Atelier de l'Ile as the project's... View full entry

Renderings of Herzog & de Meuron's Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg. View full entry

Coming soon to your neighborhood.. The first ring of a joint investment of the Istanbul metropolitan area municipality and Dubai International Properties will consist of two skyscrapers worth half a million dollars in Levent, Istanbul, the plaza will be called “Dubai Towers... View full entry

Giles Worsley on an architect to rival Norman Foster. The Daily Telegraph View full entry