6 Finalists have been selected from a field of 40 competitors to enter the second round in the prestigious International Competition to design the National Palace Museum Southern Branch Museum. MVRDV (The Netherlands), Antoine Predock Architect (USA), Kengo Kuma & Associates (Japan), Artech... View full entry

FL Wright 's Gammage Auditorium (1959) is being 'prepared' | pics | for tomorrow's final debate. Gammage was originally intended as an opera house in Baghdad(!). | az | guardian | more | View full entry

Arcspace has a new feature on Aussies Lab Architecture Studio's condo project in Beijing. View full entry

After nine years of planning, construction and plenty of buzz, Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art is finally ready to open its doors. The three-building museum was designed by Mario Botta, Jean Nouvel and Rem Koolhaas. Read View full entry

For those of you planning on being in Jordan this fall, sign up is now open for Archis Magazine's 'Paranoia Event' in Amman, October 29, 2004.RSVP View full entry

Z marks the spot for transport museum's journey into the future View full entry

Paris' prestigious art and design institute the Pompidou Centre has joined a bid to run a museum of modern art in Hong Kong, and if all goes according to plan Norman Foster will design it and it will be up and running in 2012. View full entry

SOM prepares designs for "a bold new experiment in multimedia entertainment - and brand-name architecture." Universal Studios is on the consultant list. Seriously. NYTimes View full entry

Controversial French billionaire François Pinault has hired Tadao Ando to remake an abandoned island in the Seine river, which has remained a cultural symbol of France's socialist past. If the country's third richest man has his way Ando will design a personal... View full entry

The troubled museum expansion by Sejima & Nishizawa (SANAA) in Valencia, Spain, will have two options: with or without the exterior steel mesh. In either case, officials claim the project can start in 2005 and be done by 2007. They are seeking some private funds to complete the project in its... View full entry

I like the idea of the elevator that stops on the 4th and 7th floors only. "Cooper building meshes high tech with energy efficiency" at the Villager (via). Previously: Cooper Galleries & nu skool. View full entry

Architect Richard Meier, FAIA, is designing a new $1 billion, 1,500-unit hotel-condo complex at the Hard Rock hotel-casino in Las Vegas. - archrecord View full entry

Hold on to your seats because if you saw the Serpentine Mountain, it's almost comical that this comes from the same office. Harking back to the housing blocks a la Clockwork Orange, MVRDV w/ Blanca Lleó put the finishing touches on the Edificio Mirador, Spain. See latest... View full entry

The Boston Globe takes a look at the unusual and colorful house that the architect and sound installation artist Christopher Janney built for his family. Janney was the curator of the Resonating Frequencies: dialogues on architecture & music series that took place at the Cooper Union as part... View full entry

Architect and activist Paul Castrucci built his home and office on the Lower East Side of New York as a laboratory of sustainable architecture and green-building practices. (NYT) View full entry