SHoP 's camera obscura is the "first 'building' to be 100% digitally designed and computer fabricated" ... maybe. | wired | pics(related: JA's post below--->) View full entry
A memorial to "victims of the Berlin Wall" consisting of 1,056 wooden crosses was inaugurated in Berlin Sunday, fuelling a debate on whether the capital is turning into a Cold War theme park . Meanwhile, Peter Eisenman's memorial to the Holocaust victims is well underway. Previously... View full entry
NYT critic Nicolai Ouroussoff doesn't particularly care for the proposed Jets Stadium designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox, reports Lockhart Steele. But KPF has a flashy site going for it. View full entry
Glancey drools over Ash Sakula's foil-wrapped homes in Silvertown, London. | guardian View full entry
Terence Riley proclaims MoMA has turned the corner on Bauhaus with their new home by Taniguichi. | wpost View full entry
IVAM Update 2: Valencia Museum of Modern Art (IVAM) project by SANAA seems to be stable after winning the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale, confirming earlier reports. Director Consuelo Ciscar assures the public that the project will happen "with or without" the exterior steel mesh, unless a... View full entry
City Council approved the Art Gallery of Ontario's expansion plans yesterday, clearing the way for architect Frank Gehry's first public building in his former hometown. Read View full entry
One the recent projects by Atelier Zumthor, currently under construction in Berlin, is slated for destruction. Members of his office have requested assistance in distributing information about the building's fate so that it might be averted... A petition addressed to the senator responsible for... View full entry
On display in SF, NowHouse aims to bridge affordability, prefab and eco-friendly housing under one roof. Read. View full entry
Christian de Portzamparc is tapped to build a new opera house on the site of the former American Red Cross New York hq near Lincoln Center. | nyt | View full entry
State's Project for a Grand New Penn Station Is Moving Again. NYTimes. (via Curbed) View full entry
Thanks to his work with the Swiss firm Herzog & de Meuron on the Olympic stadium being built here for the 2008 Summer Games, the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei suddenly finds himself with a rising profile in the architecture world. (NYT) View full entry
The SF Chronicle talks with Daniel Libeskind about revisions to his design for the Jewish Museum in San Francisco. View full entry
Article about the impact of the national lottery on British society over the past decade. Buildings realised using lottery funds include: Tate Modern, Millennium Dome, Wembley stadium. (via the Observer) View full entry
The University of Western Ontario yesterday tested the force of impact and wind on the new structure of Calatrava's Path Terminal at Ground Zero in The Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel Labratory. Read & more. View full entry