After the Berlin Holocaust Memorial, Eisenman reflects on cornfields, Libeskind, meaning, Gehry, ground zero, and (of course) football. | guardian | prev View full entry

Hundreds of New Yorkers turned out last night for a raucous public hearing (the only one scheduled) to determine whether the state should approve a deal to build a football stadium on the far west side of Manhattan, a project that is central to the mayor's plans for the 2012 Olympics and the... View full entry

A little old, but hey, hadn't made it around these parts. As posted by c in the dropbox, Sean Connery was very impressed with the Scottish Parliament and he had some fun donning the bright security vest and hanging out windows. View full entry

Iran at last plans to construct the Pasargad Museum near the mausoleum of Cyrus the Great in early 2005, after a quarter of century break. | persianjournal View full entry

Part of the subterranean reshuffling of the World Trade Center site program, the new location for the vehicle access ramps is causing concern about their impact on the proposed Liberty Park, across the street from the Memorial. Read | Previously: 1; 2 View full entry

Though the public imagination has been fired by images of a shimmering city in the sky, the new World Trade Center is actually being designed from the ground down, where there is not a cubic inch to spare. David Dunlap reports in today's NYTimes. View full entry

St. Louis' riverfronttimes.com profiles Rocio Romero and her successful prefab LV and LVL Home kits. View full entry

Read about the upcoming 2005 World Expo site in Aichi, Japan, with a thematic focus on sustainability, and the Japanese Pavilion Nagakute which resembles a giant cocoon made up of 30,000 bamboo trees and purely comprised of biomass. View full entry

We've got an Image Gallery for everyone to post holiday greetings for all their comrades; or, displays of you people getting sloppy at the office parties. Happy Holidays! View full entry

Eyal Weizman , architect from Tel Aviv and London, discusses his research and map-making project for the human rights organization B'Tselem on violations of human rights by architecture and planning in the West Bank. This project, The Politics of Verticality, is also being developed into a Ph.D... View full entry

The Guardian's Jonathan Glancey praises Will Alsop's new Fawood Children's Centre in London. ReadWill Alsop's new children's centre has its own 'big top', water garden and outdoor stage. It's a ray of light in a dark corner of London, says Jonathan Glancey Monday December 13, 2004 The Guardian... View full entry

Crisp and vaguely reminiscent of "mars-attacks," the new multimedia and reseach building for the Grappa Nardini company by Massimiliano Fuksas at europaconcorsi. View full entry

The Times UK has a couple of interesting letters from readers. First, Stephen D. Rountree, CEO and President of the Performing Arts Center in LA defends the sandblasting of the Disney Hall glare as a minor fix. Frank Gehry himself follows and doesn't address the panels per se. He only says: Sir... View full entry

Architect Shabbir Kazmir, founder of Project Life Line, is developing a prototype of a medical mobile unit capable of solving the problem of unsanitary water conditions in developing nations hit hard by disasters. Read + this one with clr img View full entry

Gov. Schwarzenegger has decided to go with a simplified design for the Bay Bridge Expansion to save billions in cost over runs, bringing us back to a design originally put forth by Gov. Pete Wilson in '97. And expects Bay Area drivers to foot the bill. Could this project be going any worse? Read... View full entry