Berlin's Olympic Stadium, built by the Nazis for the 1936 games, was re-opened this weekend after the completion of a €242-million renovation. (Independent Online | Reuters) View full entry
Design Boom previews Asymptote's metamorph installation for the Venice Biennale. View full entry
Libeskind explains his relationship with A. Gorlin and the design of his new TriBeCa pad. | interview | images View full entry
some relatively detailed background info on financing, systems, costs, energy usage, and other issues for Pugh-Scarpa's over-exposed Colorado Court in Santa Monica (in pdf) View full entry
When Frederick Law Olmsted conjured up parks for Chicago, Milwaukee and communities across the country, they were to be leafy refuges from the grit and chaos of urban life. "A man's eyes cannot be as much occupied as they are in large cities by artificial things . . . without a harmful effect,"... View full entry
Eight years after the Victoria and Albert Museum chose Daniel Libeskind's radical design for a modern extension, the building still exists only on paper. Now, for the third time, the museum has been refused public money for the project, and it looks increasingly unlikely that the Spiral, as the... View full entry
UC Berkeley News profiles the campus' brand new Music Library which opened on July 6th, with a formal opening ceremony planned for Sept. 26. View full entry
Domus reports that the Louvre will build a 105 million euro branch in the north of France. Valenciennes, Lens, Calais, Boulogne-sur-Mer Amiens and Arras are vying for the investment riches. (via) Domus: Un secondo Louvre sarà presto realizzato nel nord della Francia. Lo ha annunciato... View full entry
Navigating the blogosphere I found plenty of views and impressions on recent architectural projects. So, here you have some more on Seattle's Public Library and Chicago's Millennium Park. Millennium Park:jeff-phillips.com some photographs of "the bean"nocommercialpotential.net Under the Beanfrom... View full entry
Already replete with museums, however, Barcelona has now come up with a fresh way of using culture to turn a dilapidated industrial zone into a desirable place to live and work. (frm NYT) View full entry
Grand Central at Kennedy is no cookie cutter living, is an urban neighborhood concept contained in one city block within a few blocks from Downtown Tampa. Is this not the suburbs ? View full entry
Metropolis Magazine profiles Architect Siamak Hariri's winning entry for the design of a Baha'i temple in Chile ””a dome of nine luminous alabaster wings”” which took inspiration from his own practice of the Baha'i faith. View full entry
The Guardian's Jonathan Glancey defends the new memorial. Also from Archinect:Take Two Memorials and Call Me in the MorningMoney down the drain? How Diana's fountain turned into a washout Kathryn Gustafson profiledPhotographs of the new Princess Diana MemorialDiana fountain ready for opening View full entry
this week's dose comes high octane with the Ini Ani Coffee House in the Lower East Side by Lewis Tsurumaki Lewis. View full entry
Taichung Major Jason Hu urged the central government yesterday to provide the needed funds for the plan to build a satellite Guggenheim Museum in the central city of Taichung before it's too late. From the Taipei Times View full entry