East façade, view across Ultimo Pedestrian Network, model scale: 1-to-10 Sydney’s Frank Gehry designed Dr Chau Chak Wing building will open a new page in business education in Australia. The world-renowned architect’s plans for the $150 million building, his only in Australia, were unveiled at a media conference at the University of Technology, Sydney. UTS [...]

Comcast Center, a prismatic glass curtainwall office tower in Philadelphia carries forward the proportions of the classical obelisk. Robert A. M. Stern, whose influential designs have revitalized traditional architecture, has been named the 2011 recipient of the Richard H. Driehaus Prize for Classical Architecture. Stern will receive $200,000 and a model of the Choregic Monument [...]

It was a big story in late 2007: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) was suing celebrated architect Frank Gehry, alleging serious flaws in the design of his Stata Center, a science building of boldly angled walls and swooping curves on the Cambridge, Mass. campus. Among the alleged problems: leaks throughout the building, mold growing [...]

Greece’s new Acropolis Museum, designed by celebrated Franco-Swiss architect Bernard Tschumi, has finally been unveiled after years of delays and legal wrangling.

General view of the New Acropolis Museum The new Acropolis Museum will open today. It is located 300 meters from the famous ruins, and cost $181 million to build. Greek President Dimitrios Pandermalis wrote: “The new Acropolis Museum was designed with two objectives: the first to offer the best conditions for the exhibition of its [...]

City of London Information Centre – Interior © Benedict Luxmore. The Royal Institute of British Architects announced the winners of the 2009 RIBA Awards. RIBA Awards for architectural excellence will be presented across the country today with 103 buildings in the UK and Europe winning awards (97 in the UK and six in the rest [...]

The wild, delirious ride that architecture has been on for the last decade looks as if it’s finally coming to an end. And after a visit to the Chanel Pavilion that opened Monday in Central Park, you may think it hasn’t come soon enough. Designed to display artworks that were inspired by Chanel’s 2.55, a [...]