Let's see... Herzog and De Meuron clustery goodness | riorocket set | previously: almost open & gallery View full entry
The Beauties, and the Beasts. The Times of London rates some of the city's more eminent buildings. View full entry
Portzamparc's home for the Luxembourg Philharmonic eagerly awaits its first season. The project was executed with Chinese acoustician Xu Ya Ying. | w*paper View full entry
View.co.uk has recent pics of Sauerbruch Hutton's Dessau Center; Mansilla + Tuñón's Musac; and Wilkinson King's Surrey House. View full entry
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
