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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
With the Nippon Chinbotsu manga series which is about the sinking of Japan after a series of earthquakes, the manga-ka (manga or comic artist, cartoonist) Tokihiko Ishiki produced a megaseller that has remained popular until today. The MAK…
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In a recent public event at the Pavilion de l'Arsenal in Paris, OMA founding partner Rem Koolhaas and associate/director of French projects Clement Blanchet presented OMA's recent Ecole Centrale competition win and its urban development in Saclay.…
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Ecole Centrale conference with Rem Koolhaas and Clement Blanchet
French architecture office, Tétrarc, has designed a camouflage print onto the walls of this social housing dwellings in Saint-Gilles Croix de Vie, a well known Atlantic port. Tetrarc is undertaking a social housing project with Vendée overtones,…
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MERVAU dwellings by Tétrarc. Photography © Stéphane Chalmeau
The MMFA launches an architectural competition for the construction of its fifth pavilion that will house the Michal and Renata Hornstein collection among others and will open as part of Montreal’s 375th anniversary. , full_html
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Mas Context, a interesting magazine, presents "Production", the sixteenth issue of its quarterly publication.

The contributors to this issue are James Black, Anthony Burrill, Edward Burtynsky, Andrew Clark, Jason Fried, Iker Gil, Jonn…
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PRODUCTION. MAS Context magazine. New issue. 016