The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has announced agreements with JetBlue Airways and the FAA to build a new terminal at Kennedy International Airport and to restore and reopen Terminal 5, the Eero Saarinen-designed landmark. It is unclear to what extent Saarinen's building will... View full entry
Architecture Week covers Mostar's reconstruction of the war-ravaged Stari Most. Previously: Wrecked by war, bridge again spans cultures View full entry
The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) has announced the recipients of its 2004 Professional Awards. Also, they have awarded Peter Walker the ASLA Medal. View full entry
The renovated ”˜Shrine of the Book', which houses the Dead Sea Scrolls at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem , reopened this week amid new controversy over the meaning of the scrolls themselves. From Haaretz.com View full entry
The Denver Post talked to Larry Mizel , chairman of the board and chief executive of Denver-based homebuilders MDC Holdings, who donated $10 million for the proposed Jerusalem museum designed by Frank Gehry. View full entry
Raul A. Barreneche reports in the New York Times on the Pierre Chareau-inspired house that New York architect Michael Haverland built for himself in the Hamptons. View full entry
The BBC first reported on the Polystyrene homes planned for Afghanistan, by FAS and Shelter For Life , and The Register printed this article . But thanks to cerca in the discussions for digging up the prototype plan . View full entry
turn to Curbed for the detailed history of the buzz-killed Hotel at Rivington Street (formerly Surface, "henceforth THOR"), which is said to have a Zaha Hadid-designed penthouse, exterior by Grzywinski Pons. Parts 1,2 & 3. View full entry
Clay Risen writes about the zeal of preservation that has surrounded the debate over the future of E. D. Stone's 2 Columbus Circle, and praises Allied Works' design for the renovation, in the Morning News. View full entry
In Gurgaon, India, a fast-growing suburb of Delhi, architect Ganesh Ganapathy (pdf) built a glass cube seemingly balanced on one vertex, and fit it for an entire family. (via) w/ imgs View full entry
Athens may be in chaos, but the Olympic buildings, with their beautiful spirals and curves, are worthy of the ancients, says Jonathan Jones - Guardian View full entry
+Bryan Boyer added images from the DeYoung Museum Construction Site (H&dM) / + innes yates added images from the Holocaust Memorial Construction Site (Eisenman) View full entry
Controversial issues such as choice of site, timing, architect (non-Scottish), followed by escalating costs (from an unrealistic benchmark) have all played their part. Nevertheless, democracy has been reclaimed by the Celtic principalities of the United Kingdom. With Devolution, Scotland has... View full entry
Through sieges and injuries, our relentless BCN photo-correspondents Zo� and David send more and more images from the Forum. View full entry
Kansas City, home of many sports-architecture firms, is considering importing Frank Gehry to design its proposed downtown arena. from the Kansas City Star (subscription) Related/Previously on Archinect: FOG Unimpressed View full entry