Novy Dvur monastery will be dedicated today and the public will have free access to it and its church for the first and only time; hundreds of people are expected to attend. NYTimes View full entry
Manhattan-based Weiss/ Manfredi Architects were given an Excellence in Design Award for the Museum of the Earth from the New York state chapter of The American Institute of Architects (AIANYS). ithaca journal View full entry
After a £10 million restoration project, Hawksmoor's Church Masterpiece will be revealed today. via The Scotsman. Read more>> Article on The Times. More about Hawksmoor the Architect. View full entry
What's holding back SOM's proposal for a new Penn Station in NYC? Nicolai Ouroussoff for the NYT examines the design as well as the political holdout in light of the crazed streets surrounding the Republican National Convention. View full entry
Chad Clark at Burnlab alerts us of the presence of a Save the Neutra Cyclorama Petition and a letter you can send. Previously: Another Endangered Neutra View full entry
798 Space is a 1200 square meter contemporary art space refurbished from an old weapons factory left by the 1950's era of communist Beijing. Xu Young talks about his effort to promote the avant garde in China as well as preserve a historic architecture in a new cultural enterprise. (NYT) View full entry
europaconcorsi dishes it out View full entry
Picking up where Krzysztof Wodiczko may have left off, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer further pursues “Relational Architecture” by transforming public spaces using interactive technologies that enable participants to become part of the artwork. In this latest exhibit at MOCA... View full entry
While a new "auralization room" called the SoundLab developed by Arup , is transforming acoustics into a predictable and negotiable part of the building process, helping architects guage the right space for specific sound signatures (NYT), Acoustical Control Systems (ACS), a Dutch firm, is... View full entry
New building contains, police, medical facilities, cells for drunk people and of course anti-terrorism control center. Gallery 1 click on the jail cell thumbnails.Gallery 2Gallery 3 via BauNetz and article from the official Oktoberfest websiteAll pages in German. Architect: Volker Staab View full entry
They've housed yogis, cars, Hobbits and Hollywood stars. They're quick to install, easy to move and can withstand hurricanes. Pacific Domes from Oregon are now getting orders from around the world. View full entry
The new advances in supermarket design from Austria. They have better fluorescent lighting too. From the Guardian View full entry
Voters in Deerfield, Il., will be able to vote this November in a non-binding referendum on whether to increase their property taxes to pay for a library expansion that could be designed by Frank Gehry. According to the article, Gehry was interested in what the Board tought of the OMA Seattle... View full entry
LA Downtown News - Charter School to Bring 700 Students to Exposition Park (Thom Mayne/Morphosis) View full entry
The 2004 Danish pavilion is presenting an ambitious exhibition at the International Architecture Biennale. The Danes have invited one of the world's leading designers, the Canadian Bruce Mau, to challenge the Danish tradition of architecture. The result is a radical exhibition titled “Too... View full entry
