The Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health is located on a prominent “gateway” site of the 61 acre Symphony Park development in downtown Las Vegas, at the corner of Grand Central Parkway and Bonneville Avenue. (source arcspace) Read more...

Spanish architecture firm SelgasCano has designed their own office in the middle of the woods near Madrid. (source coolboom) Read more...

Krawitz Architecture projected this unique house with a second skin made with bamboo in Bessancourt, near Paris, France. The house is closed to the north to limit heat loss and opened to the south benefitting from free solar energy. Aesthetically, it is an abstract replica of a traditional house. (source coolboom) Read more...

The 'treehotel' is set to open this weekend. located in Harads, Sweden about 60 km south  of the arctic circle - currently consisting of four rooms: the cabin, the blue cone, the nest  and the mirrorcube. the project was conceived by tree hotel co-founder Kent Lindvall,  a former guidance counselor who came up with the concept with his wife britta. two additional structures are scheduled to open in october: the UFO and a room with a view. (source designboom) Read more...

 “The aquarium interacts with its surroundings and becomes a manifestation of nature itself.”
Anders Park, Project Manager (source arcspace) Read more...

Design & Access Statement
The Seven Meadows site comprises of a barn conversion with out buildings on 0.39 hectares or 0.97 acres of land. The Site is located to the west of Stithians Reservoir and lies approximately 2 kilometres north of the village of Carnkie, 2.9 kilometres north of Porkellis and about 3.5 kilometres west of the village of Stithians. Community facilities and services are available in all these villages. The main urban area of Camborne-Pool-Redruth is located some 6 kilometres to the north. (source archdaily) Read more...

We, Unsangdong Architects, are proposing a rather unfamiliar approach to architecture, , which was exemplified in Kring_Kumho Compound Culture Space. Brand strategy, once used to be employed only by profit organizations as a means to create monetary assets, has evolved endlessly to reborn.  (source archdaily) Read more...

“Weaving as a means of establishing flow to resolve the site’s disparate staccato informs the principal strategy for cohesively incorporating numerous existing structures with the additional square feet of recreational facilities, classrooms, housing, campus store, dining hall, and varsity aquatic center, that are included in this new facility.” Morphosis (source arcspace) Read more... 

OMA’s first project in Canada aims to integrate the building with the surrounding park and initiate new links with the city. (source arcspace) Read more...

Manchester United star Gary Neville got green light from Bolton Council for his eco house-in-the-hill to be built in Harwood, Lancashire — “the first zero-carbon property in the North West of England”, as it is described on Make Architects‘ website. (source ai4a) Read more...

"My architecture has attempted to convey something of the discrete character of elements in the Australian landscape, to offer my interpretation in built form." Glenn Murcutt (source arcspace) Read more...

Architect Byoung Soo Cho’s Earth House is quite possibly one of the classiest dugouts ever built. Set amid peaceful woods and rice fields an hour east of Seoul, Korea, the subterranean structure consists of six tiny unadorned rooms (kitchen, library, two bedrooms, and a bathroom) and a 23-by-23-foot courtyard. Cho describes the house, dedicated to Korean poet Dong-joo Yoon, as a place for self-reflection. He says the concept goes back to his 1991 graduate thesis at Harvard, where he began exploring Taoist ideas about negative and positive space, and the question of just how much (or little) space we need in order to live comfortably. (source dwell) Read more...

The 'Sarasota School of Architecture' was coined as an historical term by architect Gene Leedy in the 1980s to describe the unique mid-century, European-Modernism-meets-Florida architecture of the city. Here, we examine how the physical legacy of progressive architectural practice in Sarasota has (and sometimes hasn't) been preserved and reinterpreted. (source architonic) Read more...

There were over 75,000 visitors, in four days, to the two new museums in Rome: the MAXXI by Zaha Hadid (inaugurated with four major exhibitions) and the Macro by Decq Odile (which will begin activities from October). (source archiEurope) Read more…

Sir Norman Robert Foster is the single most powerful architect in the world . His latest buildings and city plans are redefining life and environmental conditions in the world's fastest growing economies, where legions of steroidal architectural implants recall the novelist Norman Mailer's warning in 1964 about Modernist architecture's "empty landscapes of psychosis".  (source the independant) Read more...

Mexican a10 studio collaborated with Carlos Marín from Lab07 as also Hugo Sanchez from Entorno to create a proposal for the agriculture museum in Culiacan. (source designboom) Read more…

We all would like to live in an eco/green/efficient home but not without a touch of modernity. Architect Andy Bernheimer of Della Valle Bernheimer solves this problem by creating this beautiful modern home in the Hudson Valley. (source vidafine) Read more…

As project titles go, ‘House of Stone’ is, well, about as literal as you can get. At the Interni Think Tank exhibition in Milan during last month’s Salone del Mobile, renowned British architect John Pawson, in collaboration with Salvatori and lighting specialists KKDC, presented a highly graphic, archetypically house-shaped installation made of meticulously cut, recycled stone. (source dailytonic) Read more…

Swedish architectural firm Tham & Videgård have completed the Garden House in Viksberg, Sweden. (source contemporist) Read more…

“We wanted the architecture to convey a sense of well-being, openness and multi-cultural mix that has a direct sensory relationship with its surroundings.” Shigeru Ban and Jean de Gastines (source arcspace) Read more…

Vir.Mueller Architects designed a prototype for community toilets in Rajasthan, a rural area of India. Public sanitation services are vital in India, yet the country is severely lacking such facilities. With this in mind, the National Foundation of India asked the architects to create a prototype, with the hope that the model could be distributed around the area, helping all the families in the village of Delwara. (source archdaily) Read more...

You may remember the NYC Department of Transportation’s call for designs for an “economic, temporary surface treatment” for the new pedestrian plazas on Times Square. The design was meant to be a placeholder that will keep the plazas looking fresh till the real overhaul slated for 2012. (source metropolis magazine) Read more…

The building will be an experimental generator for new ideas in music education and performance. (source arcspace) Read more…

When stockbrokers buy futures, they follow research and hunches in search of a jackpot down the road. You can apply the same concept to architecture when cultural institutions cast the net for a designer who will deliver a first-rate building and the right sort of buzz. (source sfgate) Read more…

Studio Banana TV interviews Carlos Ferrater and Patrick Genard talking about their project Mediapro tower in Barcelona. (source deathbyarchitecture) Read more…

SF-based IwamotoScott Architecture have designed an incredible spiraling mixed-use high rise as part of an economic study for Greenwich South, the 41-acre site directly south of the World Trade Center. Straddling Edgar Street, the twisting tower features a number of sustainable building strategies, including an environmentally modeled skin, fiber-optic daylighting, and bio-filtration terrarium floors within dual-branching atria, which work much like a set of lungs to provide fresh air to the building. (source archiEurope) Read more…

Australian designer Jared Poole has designed the Seafarer Residence in Surfers Paradise. (source contemporist) Read more…

Icons of Architecture now available to watch online, via computer or iphone
Daniel Libeskind is arguably one of the world’s most passionate, enthralling starchitects; undeniably controversial, he regularly polarises the architectural world with his outlandish and abstract designs. (source wan) Read more…

Studio Banana TV interviews architects Cristina Díaz Moreno and Efrén García Grinda AMID (cero9), a prominent young duo of Spanish architects. (source architecture lab) Read more…

Sagan Piechota Architecture have designed the Otter Cove residence in Carmel, California. Full description after the photos…. (source contemporist) Read more…

Last Thursday I had the chance to represent Archinect (thanks, Archinect!) at a press tour of the Richard Meier Model Museum, which is reopening for the summer 2010 season. (source archinect) Read more…

Woodstock Farm is designed by Rick Joy Architects and is located in Vermont. Even though the architect specialize more in desert house designs he managed to create harmonious shingle-and-stone house and barn. (source digsdigs) Read more….

The apartments, a steel structure built around the silo, protrude into the light and the landscape like Lego bricks. (source arcspace) Read more…

Architect Brent Kendle has designed the Desert Wing House in Scottsdale, Arizona. (source contemporist) Read more…

Anne Holtrop’s Trail House follows a series of trails in the ground that were created by the daily circulation of pedestrians. The house becomes the path and transforms the inside into a “walking home.” (source archdaily) Read more…

Legendary architect Frank Gehry has never been one to mince words. And the 81-year-old made no exception this past Tuesday night, when he engaged the CEO of the Pritzker Organization in a “public tete-a-tete” during the annual Cindy Pritzker Lecture on Urban Life and Issues at Chicago’s Harold Washington Library Center. Chicago Tribune writer Blair Kamin was there to document the punchy interview. Among the more colorful quotes from Gehry (source archiEurope) Read more…

Elemental in nature – walls of glass, floors of stone, supports of concrete, a roof of copper – “it’s not really about the architecture itself, but more about the architecture as a vessel for looking at the view,” says Daniel Piechota. (source contemporist) Read more…

The design for the museum, demonstrates an extremely sculptural approach, combining ingenuous and playful functionality with highly visual design. (source arcspace) Read more…

Chilean architects Antonio Menéndez Ferrer and Cristian Barrientos Vera of Rearquitectura have designed the Lofts Yungay II in Valparaíso, Chile.
The geographical conditions are fundamental design choices. The building is located on a site with steep slope at the front is the back that overlooks a ravine. (source contemporist) Read more…

The building, like a desert rose, appears to grow out of the ground and be one with it. (source arcspace) Read more…

The Hiroshima based architectural practice CAPD realised this minimalist single family residence in Komatsushima city, on the east coast of Shikoku Island. (source dailytonic) Read more…

Sometimes we get fancy gift-wrapping and a somewhat expected gift which does not accompany the exterior wrap! Although the best alternative is to try to look for the content and not for the fancy wrapping; but what happens when wrapping and the content are equally weighed? I guess that’s the best formula! Such is the case with Neil Barrett, fashion designer and AquiliAlberg Architects. (source yatzer) Read more…

Roughly a year behind its original schedule, the Zaha Hadid-designed Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum will break ground on March 16 on the East Lansing campus of Michigan State University. When finished in 2012, it will be the second Hadid-designed building in the United States, after the Lois & Richard Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art (2003) in Cincinnati, Ohio. (source architectural record) Read more…

Steven Holl Architects were awarded first prize in the design competition to redevelop the site of the oxygen and boiler plants in Hangzhou. (source arcspace) Read more…

The architectural expression for the new performing arts centre by Zaha Hadid Architects was inspired by the uniquely beautiful monument of Petra. (source arcspace) Read more…

Rural Studio was established in 1993 by Samuel Mockbee to encourage Auburn University architecture students to leave their academics and drafting boards behind and gain valuable hands-on experience by working directly with poverty-stricken communities in West Alabama. (source azure magazine) Read more…

Born in Beijing, China in 1962, Pei Zhu founded studio Pei-Zhu, a platform for researching the relationship between chinese philosophy and contemporary architecture, an experimental practice dealing with future and tradition in 2005. (source designboom) Read more…

This week, the AIA announced the nine recipients of the 2010 AIA Young Architects Award. The prize recognizes individuals who have demonstrated exceptional leadership and made significant contributions to the profession early in their careers. (source architectural record) Read more…

Yes, because they live in a pseudo-intellectual ghetto, says Malcolm Millais; while Piers Gough says architecture is far too important to be left to the public. Read more…

“Condominio P” is a residential building located in Cagliari. The complex lies in an area affected by profound changes in urban planning and architecture, not all positive. (source archdaily) Read more…

Inspired by Mies van der Rohe's uncompleted 50x50 House (1951), Manglano-Ovalle has constructed a half-scale version of this iconic Modernist glass-walled house and inverted it so that its ceiling becomes its floor. (source arcspace) Read more…

Rocha Tombal Architecten designed a basic form with sculptural “eyes” that emerge with direct views to the varied countryside landscape. (source coolboom) Read more…

The latest images of recently illuminated infinity bridge in Stockton-on-tees, Uk designed by Speirs and Major associates was sent to designboom. An unusual aspect of the project is the way the lights respond to the movement of the pedestrians as seen in this video. (source designboom) Read more…

Architect Julio Barreno has completed the renovation of a traditional patio house in Ubrique, Spain. (source dezeen) Read more…

In many ways, Singaporean architecture still suffers a little from the metallic and glass box mentality. (source wallpaper) Read more…

Helsinki architects AFKS have completed a children’s daycare center in Espoo, Finland, clad inside and out in strips of timber. (source dezeen) Read more…

Blok Kats Van Veen Architects projects this private house located along the edge of the Homeruskwartier neighbourhood facing the Almere forest stroke. (source coolboom) Read more…

Helsinki architects AFKS have completed a children’s daycare center in Espoo, Finland, clad inside and out in strips of timber. (source dezeen) Read more…

The Basel based HHF Architekten realised this countryhouse for two young art collectors. The design reflects their request for simple abstract looking piece, sitting almost without scale on top of the vaste property, which is located two hours upstate from New York City. (source dailytonic) Read more…

Here are a couple Tadao Ando-designed buidlings, photographed by etogh33. (source archidose) Read more…

While almost all of Hitoshi Abe’s buildings are in Japan, his connection to the United States reaches as far back to the 1980s when he was a student at the University of California’s Sci-ARC, and later as staff at the cutting-edge firm Coop Himmelblau in L.A. His main office, Atelier Hitoshi Abe, is in L.A. and he maintains a smaller office in Sendai, his hometown. (source azure) Read more…

It has been almost 10 years since, in his study of n.3940 av atlantica in Rio de Janeiro, the architect Oscar Niemeyer handed over to Domenico de Masi the concept consisting of a model and some drawings of the auditorium, all accompanied by sketches and text. (source designboom) Read more…

The latest undertaking by Katsuhiro Miyamoto architects is a renovation project of a 27 year old wooden residence built in a low storey and high density area of southern Osaka city. Using undulating lattice surfaces that employed one thousand 2 by 4 wood pieces, miyamoto was able to address key problem areas of the building. (source designboom) Read more…

This small and breezy house in Venice, California, designed by Robert Choeff and Krystyan Keck of the Bureau of Architectural Affairs, was completed in April 2009. Source bldg blog) Read more…

The Diamondhouse is a sound studio and office extension to a house located deep in a canyon, against a severely sloping hillside, with minimal access and little space upon which to build. (source archdaily) Read more..

This home, called Villa Dali by 123DV Architecture, is spectacular. It might not be for everyone, but if you love architecture or art (or both) I bet you’re gonna love this one. It was also selected for the WAN long list for Best House of the Year, 2009. (source design milk) Read more…

The Frankfurt/Main based architectural practice reinhardt_jung [architekten und ingenieure] realised this extension of an existing single family house with the aim to create a “four generation residence”. Read more..

Standing on 6 stilts is house in obama, by japanese suppose design office. The rectangular building has no exterior Windows. (source designboom) Read more…

Designed by LAN Architecture, this unnamed apartment complex is planned for the Terres Neuves District of Begles, France. (source AMNP) Read more…

You talk about creating a contemporary platform, via the IABR, for architects, urban planners and thinkers to make concrete contributions to diversity, vitality, and livability of the urban condition. (source archinect) Read more…

Conversations between Edi Rama and Anri Sala, and Adam Caruso and Thomas Demand are now available to watch online in their entirety. (source architecture foundation) Read more…

The Voest steelworks recently completed its new, representative sales and finances head office in Linz. (source arcspace) Read more…

A private house in the heart of suburbia, Celluloid Jam looks like it dropped off another planet. But to architect Norisada Maeda, its futuristic form was just the thing for his clients’ hilltop plateau at the edge of the Japanese city of Yokohama. (source wallpaper) Read more…

Gehry Partners dropped from Museum of Tolerance Jerusalem project
For six years Gehry has been set to stamp his illustrious mark on one of the most historic cities in the world with his design for the Museum of Tolerance in Jerusalem but following a wave of protest Gehry Partners has been dropped as architect for the scheme. (source wan) Read more…

Japanese studio General Design have completed a tall narrow concrete flagship store with no windows for a clothing brand in Nagoya, Japan. (source dezeen) Read more…

This project is one that is hard to name so I am calling it the "Mini Egg House". The project scope was to create a mobile office unit for Xfactoragencies. The architectural design firm behind the project was dmvA of Belgium. (source furniture fashion) Read more…

Martin Angelov shared his funky concept for a new urban way of transportation dubbed “Kolelinia” with us . Kolelinia proposes that we ride our bicycles on a steel wire as a new type of bicycle lane. The idea was awarded first for the international “Line of Site” competition. (source archdaily) Read more…

Chinese firm MAD architects have sent us in images of their 2008 'fake hills' project. their design for a new housing development is located in the coastal city of beihai, on a long, narrow waterfront site. (source designboom) Read more…

The different volumes and surfaces create an architectural expression suited to the multi-functional and synergetic nature of the building. (source arcspace) Read more…

Two recent projects by studio elementare (studio founded by Paolo Pasquini), who participated to Italian Oxygen 2009, with the Butterfly Conservatory. (source arbitare) Read more…

In a case that could have larger implications for the architecture profession, an Ohio firm has sued a client after being fired, with the hope of being put back on the job. (source architectural record) Read more…

Emma Williamson and Kieran Wong from CODA Studio discuss their winning entry to the About Face 2009 design competition. (source australian design) Read more…

We chose all materials as natural as possible, colors flowing into each other, to create an otherwise monolithic character. (source spaceInvading) Read more…

“Great lighting,” Mark Major says, “is not about walking into a place and saying, ‘What great lighting!’ It’s about walking in and saying, ‘What a great space!’” (source metropolis) Read more…

Italian studio Andrea Tognon have refurbished a building with an L-shaped floor plan in Teolo, Italy, by adding the missing corner. (source dezeen) Read more…

Miguel Angel Aragones has designed the recently opened Hotel Encanto in Acapulco, Mexico. (source contemporist) Read more…

Michel Rojkind was born in 1969, in Mexico city, Mexico. From 1987 to 1999, he was the drummer in aleks syntek's band 'la gente normal'. At the same time he studied architecture and urban planning at the universidad iberoamericana, mexico city. (source designboom) Read more…

Manchester-based Ian Simpson Architects has landed the €30 million project to overhaul and redesign the Queen Elisabeth Hall in Antwerp, Belgium. (source aj) Read more…

Design team Chimera has conceived of an incredible series of spiraling skyscrapers for London modeled after the complex ecosystems created by the mangrove tree. (source inhabitat) Read more…

A Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners design will form the master plan for the $6 billion development of Sydney’s Barangaroo, formerly East Darling Harbour. (source australian design) Read more…

Isay Weinfeld Architects projected this house for a graphic designer in Sao Paulo with a studio situate below street level opening onto a garden. (source coolboom) Read more…

A-cero Architects have sent us a house they designed in the Spanish city of A Coruña. (cource contemporist) Read more…

Real power remained elusive for even them.
Architecture, arguably for the first time in its history, found itself at the very center of American cultural and political life in the decade that is wrapping up. (source architecture lab) Read more…

Whether they’re for septuagenarians who can get around on their own or older people struggling with bed-confining illnesses, senior-living communities have surged in number in the past two decades, as the country’s retirement-age population has swelled. (source architectural record) Read more…

Creative Directors shortlist 24 entries for the 'NOW + WHEN Australian Urbanism' exhibition at the 2010 Venice Biennale. Twenty-four teams have been shortlisted for inclusion in the Australian pavilion’s NOW + WHEN exhibition at the 2010 Venice Biennale. (source australian review) Read more…

The Ideal Theater competition is created and managed by the United States Institute for Theatre Technology, that has held it for the last three years. The competition aims to involve theatre and architecture students in order to create professional theatre projects. (source Ymag) Read more…

“I see the MAXXI as an immersive urban environment for the exchange of ideas, feeding the cultural vitality of the city.” Zaha Hadid (source arcspace) Read more…

“…dramatic and welcoming spaces for those who aren't traveling as well as those who are.” Rafael Viñoly (source arcspace) Read more…

The Sea Ranch condominium complex by Moore Lyndon Turnbull Whitaker was hailed as a paradigm of ecologically sensitive design—and remains so today.
Sea Ranch grew out of a remarkable commitment to the 1960s cause of ecology. An enlightened land developer, Oceanic Properties, commissioned the environmentally conscious landscape architect Lawrence Halprin (who passed away last month) to plan the development of a 4,000-acre ranch near Gualala, Calif., some 115 miles north of San Francisco. (the architect) Read more… 

Dubliners took their first steps across the Samuel Beckett Bridge yesterday following its official inauguration. The six-laned bridge is Santiago Calatrava's second in the Irish capital city being preceded by the James Joyce Bridge which was completed in 2003. (source wan) Read more…

Superkül Architects have designed the SHIFT Cottage in Georgian Bay, Ontario, Canada. (source contemporist) Read more…

UK architects chris lee and kapil gupta of serie architects have designed 'the tote', mumbai, a banquet hall, restaurant and bar. (source designboom) Read more…

The Novartis building by Gehry Partners is part of the Masterplan for Novartis, designed by Vittorio Magnano Lampugnani, that will transform the St. Johann site, its headquarters in Basel, from an industrial complex to a campus of innovation, knowledge and encounter. (source arcspace) Read more

The arched building is a hybrid of public market and apartment building. (source arcspace) Read more… 

Danish architect Bjarke Ingels rockets through photo/video-mingled stories of his eco-flashy designs. His buildings not only look like nature -- they act like nature: blocking the wind, collecting solar energy -- and creating stunning views. (source TED) Read more…

For the new millenium, the Vatican decided to found 50 new churches in Rome. In 1995 an international competition for the church in tor tre teste took place, which was won by Richard Meier. (source archiTourist) Read more…

The AIA voted yesterday to award Pugh + Scarpa Architects the 2010 AIA Architecture Firm Award. We’ve featured Pugh + Scarpa’s sustainable works before here (Cherokee Lofts) and here (Solar Homes) — so we were glad to hear that this Santa Monica-based architecture firm was being honored not only for their attention to sustainable design, but for their “excellent work, including its seamless blending of architecture, art, and craft; community involvement…and nurturing of in-house talent.” (source inhabitat) Read more…

One of the sad things about the recent demise of the construction boom in Dubai is that we will no longer have so many wonderful architectural renderings to show. Some come from talented starchitects jumping through architectural hoops; others like the amazing confection that was Falcon City, feature the Eiffel Tower, pyramids and hanging gardens of Babylon. Sigh, so many glories that will never be built. (source archiEurope) Read more…

This week saw a building by famed modernist architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe succumb to the wrecking ball, making room at the Illinois Institute of Technology for a commuter rail station. A few fevered bloggers complained, but the preservationists yawned. Perhaps that's because the building was a dumpy brick shed devoid of interest or import. Or perhaps it's because the Mies style doesn't seem endangered at the moment. (wall street journal) Read more…

Ma yansong was born in beijing, china in 1975. He graduated from yale university school of architecture in 2002 with a master's degree in architecture. Ma was the winner of 2006 architecture league young architects award. (source designboom) Read more…

MAD architects has sent us images of a new project, urban forest, located in chongqing, china. Drawing on the mountainous landscape of the country, the commercial high-rise building, is made up of curved, abstracted shaped floors which have been layered slightly off-center from one another. (source designboom) Read more…

He's designed some of the world most iconic buildings, just don't call him a star-architect. (source CNN) Watch videos…

Studio Banana TV interviews Japanese architect Toyo Ito on the occasion of his lecture at the European University of Madrid. Toyo Ito is one of the world's most innovative and influential architects. (source death by architecture) Read more…