R Pogrebin chronicles the complex story behind Eric Owen Moss being dropped from the Queens Museum of Art project. A replacement firm is to be selected by end of March. | nytimesThere will be no competition for Mr. Moss's successor; an architect will be chosen by the museum and the city from a... View full entry
www.ranchostyle.com - lousy home page, but inside are lots of good photos of mid-century Cliff May ranch homes in Long Beach CA. View full entry
Goldman Sachs headquarters in Battery Park City, designed by Harry Cobb of Pei Cobb Freed, is rumoured to get new works from Scott Cohen: an outdoor arcade, SHoP: a conference center, and Ken Smith: landscape. | via archpaper View full entry
A mockup of the skin of Snohetta's Turner Museum in Margate was put into place on Friday. It will serve as a test for how the building will weather. | BBC Pic of the so-called steel obelisk used as a barometer for how the cladding treatment will be affected by the harsh elements at Margate. View full entry
The Independent breaks down floor-by-floor details with some of the 22 galacticos designing Madrid's groundbreaking Hotel Puerta América. View full entry
Gehry Partners has been granted an extension for prelim work on the Arts Complex at WTC site due to complexity of site footprint. Work is now due in late Fall. Snohetta's Museum Complex, however, is to have initial design phase complete in March. | nytimes View full entry
Will Maxxi run out of money? Fears loom that Hadid's old problem of not seeing things built is plaguing her latest project for Rome's new museum of 21'st century art. Read. --- Another setback for famous architect whose buildings tend not to get off ground By Peter Popham in Rome 22 January... View full entry
Ellis Woodman offers probing questions to Alsop's Goldsmith's College. Is it art, architecture, or just scribble? | BDScribble theory By Ellis Woodman Will Alsop hasn't much truck with theory. “A theory gives comfort to the unconfident practitioner,” he opines on the Alsop... View full entry
One of the finest series of publications in the architecture world, Case comes out with a fourth installment and Daily Dose has the info. Looks like a very rewarding read. View full entry
Brnic Graf Rossbauer have proposed a new student centre in Kandahar, Afghanistan. l Arch'it l translated l View full entry
McLean's offers a review of the new War Museum and the frenzy of new work in Toronto. | mcleans | prev View full entry
Quebec's Ice Hotel season just opened through April ... or until it melts. (check out the making of.) Or go stay in Sweden's cool dens. View full entry
Engineers at the Bartenbach Light Laboratory in Aldrans, Austria, are working on a computer-controlled network of sun-tracking mirrors installed into the hillsides in order to bring sunshine to a sun-starved mountain village in Austria. Guardian | Deutsche-Welle | Telegraph | (via) View full entry
The Guardian Unlimited picks up the Puerta America design dream team story. "Ego Alert" View full entry
David Childs (SOM) recently filed court documents denying allegations that his firm copied the designs of Thomas Shine for the World Trade Center site. But some Professors don't see the similar elements as “unprotectable” “ stock elements.” Still, it's a very... View full entry
