Foster 's contested 220m DB tower in Sydney has been adorned with spires (what is it with sprires?) and continues to get conflicting reviews. | sydneymh View full entry
The Thai government, desperate for tourism, wants to create a Tsunami theme park/museum thingy, complete with a simulated tidal wave and all, to lure people back to the beaches which are promised to be up and running for wealthy hotel packages again soon. Frightening. Would you want to build that... View full entry
Protests, botched restorations, and mismanagement have led to a catastrophe in what was originally intended to revive GaudÃÂ's Barcelona masterpiece, Güell. | artpaper View full entry
Big anticipations building up for Safdie's new Yad Vashem museum, which opens March 15th. Haaretz | Jewish Week | previously”¦ View full entry
Frank Gehry, who just turned 76, and is being asked to dim the shine on the Disney, is headed to the City of Lights to design the Alzheimer's disease research center proposed for downtown's 61-acre Union Park development. View full entry
Ongoing LA mudslide destruction threatens Frank Lloyd Wright landmark house. From the LA Times View full entry
Herzog & de Meuron's Walker Center expansion in Minneapolis is set to open April 17. The embossed aluminum-mesh panels are up now. | intdesign View full entry
Porsche AG, Stuttgart, gave the green light to one of the most spectacular projects in the company's history (press release). Now the dice are cast: the Delugan Meissl architect's office of Vienna will build the new Porsche Museum in Zuffenhausen. Allthough the design might look at first glance... View full entry
What do these workers make of what is probably the most peculiar structure most of them have ever worked on? NYT probes those assembling the ‘Nomadic Musuem.' View full entry
Fred A. Bernstein puts Holl's shiny new waste factory within the larger context of architecturally designed infrastructure projects, forsees a return to the age of high-civic-pride W.P.A. style working man's working monuments. NYTimes View full entry
The Museum of Arts and Design, Allied Works' client for 2 Columbus Circle, has been upheld in appelate court to buy and renovate the Durrel Stone building. | newsday | prev View full entry
Speaking of Cesar Pelli, he presented the final schematic design for a new Arena in downtown tulsa. The mayor says: "It will be known as a Cesar Pelli masterpiece – one that future generations will enjoy." read, pics of proposal: 1, 2, 3. View full entry
Eight teams are vying for the Washington National's new stadium: HNTB, EEK, HOK, HKS, SOM, Schwarz, EwingCole, Vinoly. Winner announced by end of March. | wtimes View full entry
Winnipeg is doting over the unveiling of Pelli's design for the new terminal. | wsun View full entry
It's a 45,000 square foot mobile gallery packed into 37 of 148 cargo containers that form checkerboard walls along the West Side Highway overlooking Pier 54. The NYT does a double take at Shigeru Ban's 'Nomadic Museum.' | more @ NY Metro View full entry
