Canadian Architect looks at the winning scheme by RKBT for a competition recently organized by the Iraqi Ministry of Culture. Its aim is to reflood these marshlands and ensure the future of the 5000-year-old Marsh Arab culture and the economic stability of large portions of southern Iraq. View full entry

Number 7 World Trade Center is reborn over unmovable concrete electrical substation, which SOM intergrated in it's design... NYT View full entry

It may look like a flat-pack armadillo, but Alvaro Siza's new pavilion has a complex heart...From the Guardian View full entry

The Daily Star talks with one of Palestine's most notable architects Jafar Tukan, about his design for the mausoleum of the late leader Yasser Arafat. View full entry

Materials and Applications in Los Angeles will be hosting an installation by Benjamin Ball And Gaston Nogues entitled “Maximilian's Schell. Check it out here View full entry

Soviet-era building gives way to new Mariinsky Theater by Dominique Perrault, a landmark with Bilbao aspirations in a city with very few monumental buildings: St Petersburg, Russia. Go View full entry

Chairman of the National Capital Planning Commission, Washington, responds to those who jeered at the Foster roof de-commission. more of your debates here... View full entry

"The board of the New York Philharmonic has approved a plan to renovate Avery Fisher Hall, with a design by architect Norman Foster. According to the New York Times, the plan voted upon by the board included the addition of a thrust stage to the 40-year-old hall. But a spokesman for the... View full entry

The Age takes a look at Charles McBride Ryan's own residential adaptation of Roy Grounds' 1959 space-ship design for the Canberra Academy of Science, with this new suburban home in Hawthorn. Read DOME Home, Hawthorn: Architects Charles McBride Ryan by Norman Day 'The Age' Roy Grounds'... View full entry

An excellent story about an ex-director of the Whitney who has his house torched, then draws inspiration from the empty site to commission Thomas Phifer & Co. for a dwelling that genuflects to the garden.| nytimes | via apartmenttherapy View full entry

Witold Rybczynski opines on the recent bureaucratic bollard to prevent progress at the world trade center site. The question we all knew was coming, "Is it terrorist proof?" Exploring the issues at Slate. View full entry

Breaking: "But however considerate the planners' intentions, the memorial is increasingly swaddled in banal sentimentality." NYT View full entry

Tim McDonald and his merry band of architectural pranksters have moved north to Fishtown, and they've taken their guerrilla design-and-build tactics with them. Only this time, Philadelphia's most free-spirited architects are behaving like serious housing developers. Their latest project merges... View full entry

Recently added... Lotus House by Kengo Kuma. mint. View full entry

Renzo and the Whitney lost their bid for a grand new entrance when a "contributing" brownstone played its trump card. NYT View full entry