Three Gehry towers will replace low-rise brick warehouse office buildings and the Princess of Wales Theatre. The new buildings will contain condos, a new OCADU campus, and gallery space to house David and Audrey Mirvish’s significant collection of modern art. Read More...

Portuguese architecture firm AND-RÉ (previously on Bustler) has sent us its stunning entry to the architectural competition for the new public library building in the city of Setúbal, Portugal. Read More...

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A Weekly Dose of Architecture Updates**: This week’s dose features the Ama’r Children’s Culture House in Copenhagen, Denmark, by Dorte Mandrup Architects: The featured past dose is the Kastrup Søbad in Copenhagen, Denmark by White arkitekter: This week’s book reviews are Designing Suburban Futures: New Models from Build a Better Burb by June Williamson (L) and Original Copies: Architectural Mimicry in China by Bianca Bosker (R): : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : Read More...

Head over to World-Architects to read my write-up of the MoMA exhibition Le Corbusier: An Atlas of Modern Landscapes in the current eMagazine. Read More...

“Cities today have become far too large,” Wang said in an interview while visiting New York in April. “I’m really worried, because it’s happening too fast and we have already lost so much.” Wang, a sturdy 49-year-old, has built his small architectural practice as a riposte to this heedless destruction. With his wife, architect Lu Wenyu, he runs a 10-person firm called Amateur Architecture Studio in Hangzhou, a picturesque lakeside city southwest of Read More...

I call these projects urbicide because of the social and ecological damages they cause, such as land speculation, expulsion of the lower-middle classes from the urban center, and the zoning of green areas for development. Among the projects is a third bridge over the Bosphorus, a canal bisecting Istanbul in the north-south axis near its western border, and the redevelopment of Taksim Square. Read More...

Multnomah County Courthouse (image courtesy Architectural Heritage Center) BY LUKE AREHART South Downtown Portland Walking Tour –  Modernism and Beyond: The Architecture of Downtown Portland (South) Downtown Portland contains an abundance of post World War II architecture by Pietro Belluschi, Michael Graves, and the world renowned firm of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. This Architectural Heritage Center tour explores the southern portion of the central business district. You’ll learn Read More...

The sort of patronizing language used in the letter by Lord Palumbo is all too familiar. It is the voice of money and authority, the same sort of voice that spoke out against the rights of the women, the poor, and minorities. It is, alas, the voice of what Brown describes as the “sad white men’s award.” Read More...

Here are some photos of the extension to the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture (ENSAS) in Strasbourg, France, by Marc Mimram (2013), photographed by Lucas Matagne. To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just: :: Join and add photos to the archidose pool, and/or :: Tag your photos archidose Read More...

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The current financial situation has left a permanent landscape of scaffolding structures scattered across the city; urban scars that remind us of the fragility of our current society. PIXEL CLOUD is an architectural installation that takes advantage of this condition, transforming an ordinary scaffolding structure into a fully immersive environment of light and sound in the heart of Reykjavík. PIXEL CLOUD is the winning competition entry for the Reykjavik Winter Lights Festival Read More...

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