MAASBOMMEL, Netherlands ”” This low-lying land has a new weapon in its never-ending battle with the tides: amphibian houses...By Anthony Deutsch Associated Press Writer May 23, 2004 For centuries, the Dutch have built dikes to protect themselves from the sea. Now, with predictions of... View full entry
Photos have been uploaded to the image gallery... take a look View full entry
Remember the announcement earlier this week about a Wes Jones open house? Turns out it wasn't a Wes Jones house afterall. See the original post for the correction notice, and the image gallery for a photo of the house "not by Wes Jones." View full entry
construction shots of Minneapolis' new theater by Jean Nouvel [ via ] View full entry
Dubai will have an SOM skyscraper (2000'!) by 2008. Who will be the contractor? Bin Laden Construction? View full entry
...at least that is what these classic postcard-like renderings seem to say. View full entry
NYTimes article, pic of Thom and the model $1.5 billion price tag View full entry
Inga Saffron praises TWBTA's new building at University of Pennsylvania, saying "If any architects are capable of a new take on the Philadelphia jewelbox, it is, ironically, the Manhattan-based firm of Tod Williams and Billie Tsien". Compared to Bob Sterns proposed Center for Early American... View full entry
more on the big possible job for Thom & co.NYC2012 releaseNYNewsday (w/images) View full entry
It's great to see people beginning to use the Image Gallery. Somebody just uploaded some photos of the Yokohama Intl. Ferry Terminal, Sendai Mediatheque, and the Laban Center. If anyone is in Seattle, take some snaps of the new Library and upload them! View full entry
Windmills and solar collector tubes, and lots of urban aluminium kitsch. Will NY commit $300 mill to the new Jets arena? A. Jets release stadium detailsB. Razzle-dazzle on the Hudson (w/renderings) View full entry
The New York Times covers the unveiling of the new Fulton Street Transit Center by Grimshaw, Arup, James Carpenter Design Associates, Daniel Frankfurt, and Lee Harris Pomeroy Associates. The new headhouse, a tapering, conical, 110-foot-tall steel-and-glass dome, would provide an entrance to a... View full entry
Architects Tea and Coffee Towers opens Saturday 6/5 at the Cranbrook Art Museum. Featured designers include Future Systems, Thom Mayne of Morphosis, MVRDV, Jean Nouvel, Greg Lynn (who will be speaking at the members' preview next Friday), and many more. View full entry
Several images and multimedia of Zaha Hadid's addition to FLLW's Price Tower in Bartlesville, OK. View full entry
Going on right now in LA info. If anyone went (or is going) and took photos, please upload one or two to the image gallery. View full entry