Rome's mayor has selected Santiago Calatrava to design a sports complex, which will support Rome's 2009 World Swim meet bid. The location will be in the Tor Vergata area. sources View full entry

No more Tadao Ando $195 million contemporary art museum on the outskirts of Paris. See you later Jeff Koons retrospective (more info). François Pinault (billionaire art collector) settles for Palazzo Grassi in Venice. He tells his side of the planning problems, or lack of planning... View full entry

A Backyard Fountain Like None Before: The Euser family has something in their backyard, sitting on the patio out by the tarp-covered swimming pool, that a wounded city 350 miles away has been waiting a long time to see. NYTimes w/ images. View full entry

The Wal-Mart Supercenter planned for Montcross won't look like any other in the country.... The all-brick exterior will feature Gothic-style architecture resembling the buildings on the Belmont Abbey campus across Interstate 85. "We wanted that look," said Bill Monroe of WGM Design Inc., which... View full entry

Studio Gang was set to present schematic plans for a Chicago Steel Heritage Museum in the former Acme Coke Plant, just blocks from the Ford Calumet Environmental Center (also by Gang). nwitimes View full entry

Barbaralee Diamonstein Spielvogel , chairperson of the Historic Landmarks Preservation Center and architect James Stewart Polshek discuss 40 years of decisions by the Landmarks Preservation Commission that have affected New York City. Lopate View full entry

Pogrebin takes tally of the evolving WTC Memorial and how Michael Arad has managed the ebbs and flows of the complex process of getting this project to the finish line. | nytimes View full entry

According to the Associated Press, the Calatrava-designed addition to the Milwaukee Art Museum was defaced by graffiti artists. DiscussCalatrava addition defaced with graffiti Authorities today were investigating the defacing with graffiti of the east side of the award-winning Santiago... View full entry

The Grand Rapids Art Museum has dropped Munkenbeck & Marshall and given the $55mill project to Workshop Hakomori Yantrasast. Images of the new proposal here. | grpress View full entry

Yes, that says bus stop. The Anchorage Museum of Art has the difficult task of spending $1.5 million on a single bus stop. This is going to be a great bus stop, says associate architect Kumin. | whittier | related View full entry

Herford is now home to a red Guggylike museum for art, design, fashion and architecture by none other than the man himself, Gehry Partners. arcspace photographs | AFP/Yahoo | MARTA Herford | via noticias View full entry

What the Hell Does the Walker Look Like? archrecord View full entry

In case, like me, you missed it...Bangalters and Medit provided some links to schematics of the CCC project in Spain, where Koolhaas triumphed over Zaha, Moneo, Cruz y Ortiz and Ito. CCC | skyscrapercity View full entry

He's too shy to post it himself, but Ludwig recently photographed the Allianz Arena by Herzog and DeMeuron in Munich. Take a look at 0lll View full entry

Ruckus about Paul Andreu's National Theatre in Beijing continues unabated, according to the Times UK, despite those previous calls to "get off the eggshell." View full entry