Lord Foster's GLA City Hall has potentially been diagnosed with glass cancer. | developing story via bdonline | related: Gherkin's cancer View full entry
The rebuilding of the World Trade Center site has gotten everyone talking about architecture, but so far it's a one-sided conversation, as if the only question worth discussing is: What kind of modernism do we want? or not modernism, as the case may be...City Journal + Related: Blazing a Freedom... View full entry
The New Yorker's Paul Goldberger on the recent MoMA expansion by Yoshio Taniguchi. Read View full entry
The City University of Hong Kong has awarded Studio Daniel Libeskind a $100 million commission to build the institution a multi-media facility, the studio's first project in greater China. (Record) View full entry
A widely publicized development deal between Bruce Ratner and Pace University has collapsed, threatening to scuttle or delay a planned Frank Gehry-designed skyscraper near City Hall.Read View full entry
Deerfield voters turned down by a more than two to one margin Tuesday a Deerfield Public Library advisory referendum requesting authority to issue $25 million in bonds for a new 80,000 square foot library, perhaps designed by world famous architect Frank Gehry. Read View full entry
Zachary Scott Theatre's long-desired new auditorium may sneak one step closer to reality today as Austin City Council considers a change in Zach's lease agreement with the Parks and Recreation Department. Designs by Steven Holl. News brief View full entry
SHoP 's camera obscura is the "first 'building' to be 100% digitally designed and computer fabricated" ... maybe. | wired | pics(related: JA's post below--->) View full entry
A memorial to "victims of the Berlin Wall" consisting of 1,056 wooden crosses was inaugurated in Berlin Sunday, fuelling a debate on whether the capital is turning into a Cold War theme park . Meanwhile, Peter Eisenman's memorial to the Holocaust victims is well underway. Previously... View full entry
NYT critic Nicolai Ouroussoff doesn't particularly care for the proposed Jets Stadium designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox, reports Lockhart Steele. But KPF has a flashy site going for it. View full entry
Glancey drools over Ash Sakula's foil-wrapped homes in Silvertown, London. | guardian View full entry
Terence Riley proclaims MoMA has turned the corner on Bauhaus with their new home by Taniguichi. | wpost View full entry
IVAM Update 2: Valencia Museum of Modern Art (IVAM) project by SANAA seems to be stable after winning the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale, confirming earlier reports. Director Consuelo Ciscar assures the public that the project will happen "with or without" the exterior steel mesh, unless a... View full entry
City Council approved the Art Gallery of Ontario's expansion plans yesterday, clearing the way for architect Frank Gehry's first public building in his former hometown. Read View full entry
One the recent projects by Atelier Zumthor, currently under construction in Berlin, is slated for destruction. Members of his office have requested assistance in distributing information about the building's fate so that it might be averted... A petition addressed to the senator responsible for... View full entry
