p+A news

Views from the construction site of San Jose City Hall in California. The building, that’s now on the eve of inauguration, was designed by Richard Meier [mercurynewsphoto.com].source > archinect

A multimillionaire Saudi prince gave 20 million dollars for a new Islamic art wing to be built at Louvre Museum [BBC / NYT]. Images of Mario Bellini and Rudy Ricciotti design> archinect.com

Information about Solar Umbrella, the house designed by Pugh + Scarpa in Venice, California [arcspace]

Images and information about Holocaust History Museum designed by Moshe Safdie in Jerusalem [arcspace].

Images of construction works for “Pheno“, the science museum designed in Germany by Zaha Hadid [WOLFSBURG CITYTOUR]source > dezain.net

The public transportation hub, designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava for the new World Trade Center in New York, received the approbation of Portual Authority. The project went through some changes compared to 2004 initial version, in order to strengthen the resistance of the structure against a possible explosion: the result is less glass surfaces […]

Finalists for Royal Institute of British Architects Stirling Prize 2005 were unveiled: the winner will be known in October [The Guardian].

Chicago will gain the two tallest skyscrapers in the USA. Sears Tower (110 levels) is now the highest building in the country. The new project will be 444 meters high, without taking into account the ornamental tip, that is to say 2,4 meters more. The new tower, designed by Santiago Calatrava, will be destinated to […]

The new corridor of big apartment towers designed by Frank Gehry in the neighbourhood of Nets’ basket stadium, in Brooklyn, could become for New York the most important urban development in the last decades [Clarín].

Images of the Tetsuka House designed by John Pawson in Tokio [VIEW].

Japanese architect Fumihiko Maki was selected to design the Taipei ‘Twin Towers’. Inauguration is scheduled for 2011 [Taipei Times]. Images of the project location > skyscrapercity.com

Images of the ‘House of Music‘ designed in Oporto (Portugal) by OMA – Rem Koolhaas [Fotos de Arquitectura].