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Archinect (Free subscription) | yesterday
While a dark flood of pseudo-critical article's on Beijing's urban transformation is clogging the international press channels, few have focused on stadia other than the Cube or the Nest. Bert de Muynck | movingcities published in a recent issue of MARK Magazine 'Olympic Architecture' highlighting the background of the basket stadium, velodrome, tennis stadia,... and others while checking their impact...
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Curbed (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008
Archinect had some fun with Frank Gehry when they got a look at the starchitect's model for his Serpentine Gallery Pavilion in London, writing, "my theory is that UPS dropped the model in transit and tried to fix it...
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Architechnophilia (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
A Sci-Arc proposal with odd real-world references to indentured labour, found on elseplace - a new blog by Orhan Ayyüce
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Archinect (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Woven into a rare stand of trees, Hiroshi Nakamura 's apartment building offers business travelers a place to land. Metropolis | don't miss the slideshow...
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Curbed (Free subscription) | yesterday
The hush-hush $150 million 15 Central Park West listing doesn't exist, except that it does exist, except that it doesn't. [NYO]
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Curbed (Free subscription) | yesterday
Click the image above to view the full photogallery. LOWER EAST SIDEHere's a follow-up to the earlier report of the Orchard Street Hell Building being dismantled today by construction workers. As you can see from the photos, a portion of...
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Curbed (Free subscription) | yesterday
"Just you wait -- when they demo the whole thing in 2025 and put up a series of new 50 story glass condos -- sold to the retiring boomers -- with an assisted living pavilion. they will cash in -...
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Archinect (Free subscription) | yesterday
Francis McConnell is a field supervisor for the Philadelphia Water Department, but lately he is acting more like an undercover police officer. All due to an increase in scrap metal prices. In fact cities all over the country are facing the enormous costs of either securing or replacing thousands of manhol covers, sewer grating etc.. NYT
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Curbed (Free subscription) | yesterday
Broker-blogger Andrew Fine spotted this curious façadectomy at 201 East 84th Street: a 19-story co-op, one of those ubiquitous post-war white-brick jobs, going under the knife and emerging bit-by-bit with a new red-brick look. Fine thinks maybe the building...
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Curbed (Free subscription) | yesterday
"We should be glad the petro-rich want to plow their huge gains back into America. After all, the U.S., with 5 percent of the world's population, is buying one-fourth of its oil. Until we stop whining about gas prices and...
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Curbed (Free subscription) | yesterday
Click the image above to view the full photogallery. Way back when, Grand Ferry Park , at the windblown foot of Grand Street, was about the only legitimate waterfront access in the neighborhood. It was closed for renovations last Fall...
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Curbed (Free subscription) | yesterday
LOWER EAST SIDEAccording to the Ludlow Orchard Community Organization (LOCO, naturally), 180 Orchard Streetthe rumored 26-story hotel-condo that has turned Orchard Street between Houston and Stanton into a construction hell for the past few yearsis currently coming down. From...
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Curbed (Free subscription) | yesterday
While we're frustrated by the Thompson LES and its constantly changing series of opening dates (July 29 is the third try this month), it's reveals like the above that keep us coming back for more. Via men.style.com, the hotel's...
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Curbed (Free subscription) | yesterday
[Click to expand] This is the lobby of a 13-story Hot Karl Fischer building on S. 4 Street in Williamsburg called The Continental that's just gone on the market as a rental. We wouldn't be off the mark to...
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architecture.mnp (Free subscription) | yesterday
http://www.bdonline.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=725&storycode=3118545&c=2&encCode=00000000017d82a0 The shortlist for the 2008 Stirling Prize has been announced. See the buildings and read BD’s Buildings Editor Ellis Woodman’s assessment of the key buildings on the shortlist [click the title of this post].
