On display in SF, NowHouse aims to bridge affordability, prefab and eco-friendly housing under one roof. Read. View full entry

Christian de Portzamparc is tapped to build a new opera house on the site of the former American Red Cross New York hq near Lincoln Center. | nyt | View full entry

State's Project for a Grand New Penn Station Is Moving Again. NYTimes. (via Curbed) View full entry

Thanks to his work with the Swiss firm Herzog & de Meuron on the Olympic stadium being built here for the 2008 Summer Games, the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei suddenly finds himself with a rising profile in the architecture world. (NYT) View full entry

The SF Chronicle talks with Daniel Libeskind about revisions to his design for the Jewish Museum in San Francisco. View full entry

Article about the impact of the national lottery on British society over the past decade. Buildings realised using lottery funds include: Tate Modern, Millennium Dome, Wembley stadium. (via the Observer) View full entry

The University of Western Ontario yesterday tested the force of impact and wind on the new structure of Calatrava's Path Terminal at Ground Zero in The Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel Labratory. Read & more. View full entry

The city council is reconsidering the height of Enrique Norten's design for a Harlem Marriott after protest from community groups complaining the scale would dominate the historic area. Read View full entry

On November 14 construction will begin on a new high-tech arts plaza designed by Maya Lin at the University of California, Irvine's Claire Trevor School of the Arts. Read View full entry

Wired News looks at glass sculptor James Carpenter's firm James Carpenter Design Associates, who is designing the new 42-floor Seven World Trade Center. View full entry

The Moscow Metro carries twice as many people daily than New York and faster, but below the glitzy modern Moscow streetscape is a trip through time and urban myth. Imgs View full entry

According to the Columbia Spectator Tschumi's Lerner Hall not very popular among Columbia students and Faculty will get a programmatic facelift. View full entry

Allied Works Architecture has won a coveted design award from the American Institute of Architects New York Chapter for the expansion and renovation of the University of Michigan Museum of Art. (PortlandBiz) View full entry

An NYC blogger goes inside the Hotel on Rivington, that zany project that started out as the "Surface" Hotel. Kind of ad hoc, or as we say in PR: al garete. Catherine's Pita (10.25.04...sorry, no permalink avail.) Previously: the old saga, the new saga. View full entry

Architect Bruce Stratton has recently completed the W. Ross Macdonald School for the Blind in Brantford, Canada, and claims the challenge and contribution of designing for the blind has been his most rewarding project so far. Read. More info from the school ”¦ View full entry