Intense winds have been considerably delaying the construciton of Calatrava's Turning Torso, Western Europe's tallest residential tower, and Calatrava's largest building so far. Read (with imgs) | Previously View full entry
The Philadelphia Inquirer's Architecture Critic Inga Saffron takes stock of the spate of major civic buildings completed in the city since 2001, and concludes that they are, overall, a cautious and conservative lot. View full entry
Nicolai Ourousoff... can't say he has ever met a Thom Mayne building he didn't like: the Caltrans design is a blunt rejection of the sterile towers and intimidating plazas that have turned much of downtown Los Angeles into a soulless corporate enclave sealed off from the area's surrounding ethnic... View full entry
Maya Lin is at work on a design for Cape Disappointment in Washington. | tdn View full entry
Michael Clifford, Cambridge photographer sends us pics of last week's rally to save Cambridge Architecture: here | prev. View full entry
$80 million West Edge project has office, retail, hotel space - KCStar View full entry
Liverpool's controversial Fourth Grace scheme for a new landmark building on the city's waterfront was flawed from the start, an inquiry has found... It said the fact no-one was in overall charge of the failed £324m project contributed to its demise. The Cloud... View full entry
Work is in progress for the López de Heredia wine building in La Rioja. Zaha Hadid designed a covering for a 1910 bodega and the new spaces. En español w/ a small image. View full entry
TEN Arquitectos (Enrique Norten), Jean Nouvel and Asymptote to compete for a Guggenheim-mart in Guadalajara, Mexico. All three firms have been involved with Guggenheim projects in the past, be they exhibit design, unbuilt work or online work. leer en español View full entry
The NYTimes goes down the 'punch' list of FOG (Frank Gehry) projects with after-birth defects, putting a little salt on the freshly opened wound that is Disney Concert Hall's glare problems. The firm promises the problem will be fixed for under $200,000 if the county approves the expenditure... View full entry
Michael Paglia discusses Daniel Libeskind's Denver Art Museum expansion of the Hamilton Building, and says the "Museum Residences" condo project are already half sold. Read View full entry
Thom Mayne / Morphosis will be designing an astronomy center at CalTech [more] View full entry
Daniel Libeskind's residential tower proposed for Cincinnati's riverfront is facing some opposition, and after discussions with the developer and the community revised plans are taking it back to the planning commission soon. Read | Previously... View full entry
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Lab architecture studio beat seven others for the new Museum of Bristol. BBC View full entry