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
Jamais Cascio follows up on the “Expanded PolyStyrene” (EPS) emergency homes that were tested in Afghanistan, now with a new prototype which has passed a wicked earthquake test without a flinch. Read more here | Previously”¦ View full entry
Hopkins Architects has been selected to design the $27 million "green" Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies building, scheduled for completion in summer 2008. Collaborators include: Atelier Ten, Arup, and Centerbrook. | yaledaily View full entry
The Museum of the Moving Image today unveiled the design for a major renovation and expansion of its facility in Astoria, New York. MotMI (prev) View full entry
The Times steps up with an editorial in favor of Renzo Piano and the Whitney expansion. Piano is also the Times' architect on their HQ tower. View full entry
Witold Rybcinski revists the controversially conventional town of Celebration 10 years later: From Slate.com View full entry
Calatrava's luxury tower gets permits to go in NYC. Soon to come: concrete piles are to be driven 190 feet into bedrock!!! Post View full entry
Critics cast verbal stones at Nelson's glass house. Steven Holl and Chris McVoy are trying to keep the Kansas City critics at bay (prev.), as the Atkins goes up. (w/ images). Read The architect responds Steven Holl on Tuesday gave this statement to The Kansas City Star by e-mail: “The... View full entry
Steven Holl, Loisium Visitor Center | AOL Lab NYC | Miguel Ubarrachena Pavilion (If you know anything else about this designer or the project, contact me!) | Gelbehaus by Valerio Olgiati. View full entry
If New Yorkers won't buy a vast, clunky shoebox of a stadium on Manhattan's West Side, will they accept a smaller, glassier, less symmetrical shoebox of a stadium on Manhattan's West Side? Newsday View full entry
The local yokels give usual warm reception for a Steven Holl project. This time around: Kansas City (w/ pics) View full entry
The Umbrella House, a modern structure designed by Paul Rudolph (1918-1997) in 1953, will be sold at an art auction next month. Only the third house to be sold at an art auction. Read View full entry
An expansion plan (designed by Renzo Piano) for the Whitney Museum of American Art ran into fierce opposition yesterday from neighborhood residents and preservation groups at a public hearing, with the angriest objections focusing on a move to demolish two brownstones next to the museum on the... View full entry
Mellower Whitney plan by Piano finds problems with the brownstone brigades. NYTimesGentler Whitney: PianoRenzo's Proposal for Whitney Expansion Inches Along... View full entry
