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Internationally renowned urban artist Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada has gone to Amsterdam (Zuiderzeedijk) to create a huge land portrait, made of fertile soil, spanning almost two football fields, to launch the campaign Vogelvrije Vrouwen – Defend women…
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Largest portrait ever on Holland by Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada
Today we are starting a new series of articles called “The House of the Architect”. We will choose cases of houses designed by some of the masters of the 20th century, in order to explore the figure of the architect as inhabitant.

Some…
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Glass House, a National "Trust Historic Site in New Canaan, Connecticut". Cortesía de Carol Highsmith
I learned to enjoy tea in Barcelona and whenever I went more often, carried there, Madrid now things have changed and are good places and good shopping, but my memory of the tea always linked with Barcelona. This new Japanese tea teahouse gives much…
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Usagui Teahouse by Kazuya Morita Architecture Studio. Photography © Daisuke Nakashima
Bursts of creativity, art, love and lots of dust! This film was shot at the 2012 Burning Man-festival in the Black Rock Desert in Nevada. Such a beautiful place! , full_html
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Ode to Black Rock City from Anders Christian Rasmussen
Today we share an extract from James Joyce's Ulysses. , full_html
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The Biomuseo, or Museum of Biodiversity, in Panama City is Frank Gehry's first project in Latin America. More in the video Crane tv, full_html
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Biomuseo renderings, Panama. Frank Gehry Architects
Phoenix capital city of Arizona, USA will be receiving a new addition to its city skyline with a tower shaped like a lollipops, or a new large 70,000 square foot observation tower, designed by danish studio BIG architects. The project commission by…
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Night exterior rendering of the tower's spiral-shaped observation platform. Image by BIG
The Audax Textielmuseum Tilburg (the textile museum Tilburg) presents OMA at the new Highlights TextielLab exhibition. Featuring a giant tapestry for the Rothschild Bank Headquarters in New Court, London, it marks the opening of the newly…
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Rothschild Bank by OMA. Courtesy of Audax Textielmuseum Tilburg
Atelier Bow-Wow designs the Mumbai Lab for the BMW Guggenheim Lab, a laboratory with a structure made of bamboo in L, the architects take into account the environment densely populated and modeled after the indian Mandapa as a outdoor pavilion. The…
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BMW Guggenheim Lab. Central Lab, Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum plaza. Photography: Deepshikha Jain © 2012 Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
The New York Public Library unveiled the first schematic designs of its historic Central Library Plan, which will bring a new lending library to its iconic 42nd Street location, the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building. A $300 million renovation will…
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Designs for the New York Public Library by Norman Foster, revealed