PASADENA, Calif. - The California Institute of Technology has selected the partnership of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) and Gruen Associates to design the new Walter and Leonore Annenberg Center for Information Science and Technology. OMA will lead the project and design the... View full entry
Caltech has selected OMA/Rem Koolhaas (with Gruen Associates) to design the new Walter and Leonore Annenberg Center for Information Science and Technology. Joshua Ramus, OMA partner and head of its New York office, will lead the design team. Read | OMA now joins another Pritzker winner working on... View full entry
Great read on how OMA managed such atypically XL windows for a concert hall. Thanks to the genius of Renz van Luxemburg. | archined View full entry
Casa Da Music continues to be a flickr sensation. I love this set by liláz. prev. View full entry
It returns to its idea womb. For those of you who could not make it to Athens last Summer, White Noise/White Light (imgs) will be installed and open to the public from May 2nd - May 8th from 7pm -11pm on the MIT Campus for the Inaugural Ceremonies for the new MIT President. Press Release and Info... View full entry
New sketches of the Serpentine by Alvaro Siza and Eduardo Souto de Moura with Cecil Balmond - Arup. View full entry
The cost, $2.7 billion, makes the 2,716-room hotel-casino the most expensive Strip endeavor of its kind. Wynn has again changed the look of the Las Vegas skyline with the resort's 50-story, curved tower covered in bronze glass. The Rolling Good Times Online View full entry
The NY Times covers Renzo Piano's redesign of NYC's Pierpont Morgan Library. Read View full entry
Art center adds drama to Minneapolis cityscape View full entry
OTTAWA – The director of the National Gallery of Canada says the institution needs millions of dollars in additional cash to help fix the landmark building. The imposing glass and steel structure, designed by architect Moshe Safdie, opened its doors in... View full entry
Not being part of the Shine v. Childs Freedom Tower action has left Daniel Libeskind the only option of copying his own designs for Ground Zero. (via + discussion) View full entry
"miesenkel" bought the honor of smashing the first 10-foot window of S.R. Crown Hall by Mies at IIT. The glass breaking will kick off the façade restoration of this Modernist masterpiece and National Historic Landmark. ebay | via View full entry
Despite the Pritzker Prize, Thom Mayne/Morphosis' Alaska State Capitol has evaporated under the weight of nebulous budget prospects and harsh editorial critiques. Conservative blowhards everywhere are delighted. Previously View full entry
Some neighborhoods and project committee members are not sitting too well with Enrique Norten's design for a glass addition to an old pre-Civil War manufacturing building in NYC. (downtown exp) View full entry
Austria's Baumshlager & Eberle have won the commission to develop Prague's first lofts. "A lot of Czechs don't know what a loft is," says Michal Kovarik, "Some people who came to see the lofts asked if it would be possible to add extra walls and rooms." | praguepost View full entry