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
"When I come into the new library it smells like wood," Tyrone Irving, a fourth grader, wrote in his essay expressing thanks for the library. Kids know how to appreciate architecture. NYT on the newest Robin Hood Libraries, previously featured here. View full entry
The Atomic Testing Museum just opened in Las Vegas on Sunday designed by Andre & Knowlton Associates. A frightening virtual tour of nuclear history for all you shock and awe junkies. Yikes. Read View full entry
Wired Magazine interviews AFH founder and Archinect editor Cameron Sinclair. Pick up a copy at your local newsstand tomorrow or read online here. View full entry
What does Childs have in store for L.A.'s Grand Avenue redevelopment project? What will downtown's “urban renaissance” look like? LA Downtown News on the next area trend: high-rise construction. View full entry
Another freedom tower piece. This one summarizes the tower's many technical issues and accuses Pataki of paying off officials to ensure Daniel Libeskind's design was the winner. From MSNBC View full entry
Anyone who thinks creating housing for the homeless means slapping paint on the cheapest building in town and handing door keys to the destitute would find the latest book from UC Berkeley architecture Professor Sam Davis an eye-opener... From SFGate View full entry
"Italy's industrial centre is about to burst into the architectural limelight, and the astounding new Milan Fiera complex is leading the way, says Giles Worsley." From The Telegraph View full entry
Cooper-Hewitt , National Design Museum is proposing a $75 million expansion that would create three new floors beneath the gated garden. Beyer Blinder Belle is studying the implications. | nytimes View full entry
A Manitoba resident is convinced that their legislative building, designed in 1912 by two English architects, "holds 'secret encoded clues' that suggest it was built as a talisman to harness energy and ward off evil -- a sort of beacon of the occult." From the Globe and Mail View full entry
Way to blue has a photo gallery of a Weekend at Penfield House. This Usonian is one of only three Frank Lloyd Houses available for short term rental. View full entry
View ongoing images of the construction of Libeskind's expansion of the Denver Art Museum here. View full entry
Written by a long term former resident, here is a brief history of the Trellick tower, a London residential tower which has gone from promising social housing, to unwanted city estate and lately trendy high-rise living for the arty and style conscious-type. View full entry
New York Governor George Pataki, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, the Majic Development Group and 1800 Park Ave. LLC development teams, officially break ground on Harlem Park today. The landmark $236 million mixed-use commercial/residential revitalization project is designed by Enrique Norton of Ten... View full entry
A million dollar flat lit solely by LED's. Designer claims, "This is the future of lighting." View full entry
