The city council is reconsidering the height of Enrique Norten's design for a Harlem Marriott after protest from community groups complaining the scale would dominate the historic area. Read View full entry
On November 14 construction will begin on a new high-tech arts plaza designed by Maya Lin at the University of California, Irvine's Claire Trevor School of the Arts. Read View full entry
Wired News looks at glass sculptor James Carpenter's firm James Carpenter Design Associates, who is designing the new 42-floor Seven World Trade Center. View full entry
The Moscow Metro carries twice as many people daily than New York and faster, but below the glitzy modern Moscow streetscape is a trip through time and urban myth. Imgs View full entry
According to the Columbia Spectator Tschumi's Lerner Hall not very popular among Columbia students and Faculty will get a programmatic facelift. View full entry
Allied Works Architecture has won a coveted design award from the American Institute of Architects New York Chapter for the expansion and renovation of the University of Michigan Museum of Art. (PortlandBiz) View full entry
An NYC blogger goes inside the Hotel on Rivington, that zany project that started out as the "Surface" Hotel. Kind of ad hoc, or as we say in PR: al garete. Catherine's Pita (10.25.04...sorry, no permalink avail.) Previously: the old saga, the new saga. View full entry
Architect Bruce Stratton has recently completed the W. Ross Macdonald School for the Blind in Brantford, Canada, and claims the challenge and contribution of designing for the blind has been his most rewarding project so far. Read. More info from the school ”¦ View full entry
Minrav Holdings has won a contract to build Frank Gehry's Jewish Museum in Jerusalem at a cost of $3,500-4,000 per sq.m. Read View full entry
What do you get when 1000s of Dilbert readers put their minds together and design a house? You be the judge. View full entry
To eliminate (the architect)--it also outlines a flat design fee of $999.99 for design without a site and $1,999.99 for design with a site. (SunHerald) View full entry
Thomas Heatherwick's footbridge does acrobatics in London. (NYT Magazine) View full entry
”In the 80 years since it was built, the elaborately designed Barakat building has been a symbol of Beirut's culture and tolerance and of its hellish urban warfare. Now, a group of preservationists wants to restore the building as a museum of Beirut but cannot agree on whether to pay... View full entry
Richard Meier 's latest museum opened in Germany today. Read. (1 & 2) View full entry
Real Estate Journal narrates how the latest designers on the WTC slate were picked. Read View full entry