New proposals on a piece of historic Harlem rise into the sky. NYT View full entry
Leeser Architecture to Present Visionary Design Integrating Architecture, Digital Technology, and the Art of the Moving Image... On Thursday, February 10, 2005, Museum of the Moving Image will unveil the design for a major renovation and expansion of its facility in Astoria, New York. A press... View full entry
The City of New York, through the Department of Cultural Affairs, has promised another $4.5 million toward the project as part of the capital improvement budget for the 2005-08 fiscal years. Art Newspaper (sorry, no permalink) Earlier this year, The Art Newspaper lamented the shabby state of the... View full entry
After 12 years as a hollow shell, Sir Giles Gilbert Scott's Battersea power station (similar to the Tate Modern) is taking off. Grimshaw's reno involves a shopping mall complete with cinemas, auditorium, restaurants, exhibition venues and so forth, plus a 50-bed Upperworld boutique hotel on top... View full entry
If you are keeping tabs on ARUP's reno work to Eisenman's Wexner curtainwall, read here. Also of note is Landscape Confection, 13 artists revisioning landscape painting, at the temp Wexner Center. View full entry
Lord Norman Foster will design a new FBI-style police headquarters in Scotland, housing a number of Scottish agencies including the Scottish Drugs Enforcement Agency (SDEA), Customs and Excise, immigration, forensics experts and procurators, as well as the Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca)... View full entry
Yuki Sumner admires the pao ("wrap") philosophy of Toyo Ito's latest, Italian shoemaker Tod's, in boutique-lined Omotesando Avenue, Tokyo. | guardian | prev View full entry
Lord Foster and private UK developer Aldersgate have won a $2.4 billion contract to build a mixed-use development in Sovereign Bay, Gibraltar, “the biggest ever investment into Gibraltar by three.” Read View full entry
Renzo Piano 's plan to expand the Whitney has been recommended for a hearing before a Landmarks Preservation Commission on Feb. 1st, and could mark the first step to a multiyear plan beginning construction in 2007. Read. View full entry
Madrid is hoping to end an era of separate public and private art collections by constructing a trendy museum district, that will connect the Thyssen-Bornemisza muesum with Rafael Moneo's modern annex to the Prado, and Nouvel's expansion of the Reina Sofia. View full entry
Denver Art Museum collapses into broken shards! ... nah, just kidding, but you can check out livecams here and here of the, er, museum. | dam View full entry
The NY Times reports on Childs continued manovering and 'technical excuses' why he considers the spire expendable or perhaps why the cost of it should be born by NY'ers, not Silverstein. View full entry
Questions abound over the Freedom Tower's Spire, Libeskind's small but symbolic victory after Silverstein turned over design to Childs (SOM). Dunlap digs in to the technical issues planners are scrambling to resolve in order to suffice the political compromise. | NYT January 27, 2005 BLOCKS Will... View full entry
The Cutty Sark has received a grant of £11.25 million from the Heritage Lottery Fund that will enable the ship, once refurbished, to be raised by two metres and placed in a cradle suspended on glass "waves". Grimshaw is heading the project. BBC | TILondon View full entry
Shigeru Ban has been selected as an architect for the new Swatch building in Ginza, Tokyo. | via || Also check out Shig's digs for on-site work at the Pompidou Metz. | the book View full entry
