Herzog on the Bird’s Nest: “Only an Idiot would have said No”

Star architect Jacques Herzog, the man behind the new Olympic Stadium in Beijing, tells SPIEGEL his arena is a subversive ...

Beijing’08: In a Potemkin state of affairs

Many have spoken in the past about Singapore's adeptness at first impressions. A certain Mr Koolhaas even once coined the term 'Potemkin State' to describe ...

World Architecture Festival - Barcelona 22-24 October 2008

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JIA Shanghai scoops ‘Best Hotel Design of the Year’ at IDC Hospitality Design Awards

WorldArchitectureNews.com - JIA Shanghai, the city’s first design-led boutique residence, scooped ‘Best Hotel Design of the ...

To be frank, Frank, it’s daft yet deilghtful

by Stephen Bailey Frank Gehry's Serpentine Pavilion is wonderful and absurd. Wonderful because it is exuberant. Wonderful, too, simply because it exists (if only for three ...

IHT: In the creative world, the only constant is change

by Alice Rawsthorne, IHT.com LONDON: Design is all about change. It can help us to understand the changes in the ...

Nesting in Tokyo

Tokyo - Woven into a rare stand of trees, Hiroshi Nakamura's apartment building offers business travelers a place ...

China in the face of Change

he New York Times' Nicolai Ouroussoff writes: BEIJING — Historical cycles that took a century to unfold in the West can be compressed into ...

Floor-by-Floor Demolition Blows Minds, Saves Environment

Kajima's floor-by-floor slow demolition is one of those rare things in life that leaves you truly speechless, mouth wide-open, and pinching yourself to ...

Louvre draws veil over artistic neglect with bold new Islamic wing

The Guardian.co.uk - It is known as the Veil and is described by its architects as a giant glass Muslim ...