Mexican firm Fernando Romero EnterprisE (FREE) has won a competition to design a chapel in Miami with plans modelled on the pleated fabric gown of religious figure the Lady of Guadalupe. More »
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Miami Chapel
Third Grand Central Terminal proposal
includes 380-metre skyscraper
News: WXY Architecture are the third and final studio with plans for the future of New York's Grand Central Terminal and have suggested a 380-metre skyscraper and a network of elevated cycling paths (+ slideshow). More »
SOM proposes floating observation deck
over Grand Central Terminal
News: while Foster + Partners think simply increasing capacity is the way to improve New York's Grand Central Terminal, architecture firm SOM has proposed adding a floating observation deck that slides up and down the sides of two new skyscrapers (+ slideshow). More »
Foster + Partners present vision
for Grand Central Terminal
News: architecture firm Foster + Partners has unveiled proposals to increase the capacity of New York's Grand Central Terminal by widening approach routes and pedestrianising streets (+ slideshow). More »
Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland
by Farshid Moussavi
This six-sided building covered in mirrors is the new home for the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland in Ohio by London-based architect Farshid Moussavi (+ slideshow). More »
20th Street Residence
by SFOSL
Foster + Partners to build Park Avenue skyscraper
for Lehman Brothers
News: Foster + Partners has won a competition to design a 200-metre skyscraper for collapsed investment bank Lehman Brothers Holdings and partner L&L Holding Company on Park Avenue in New York. More »
Prayer Chapel
by Gensler
Frank Lloyd Wright house in Arizona
faces demolition
Dezeen Wire: a house in Phoenix, Arizona designed by the influential American architect Frank Lloyd Wright could be bulldozed unless a new buyer is found or the city agrees to grant landmark status to the property. More »
"The High Line has become a tourist-clogged
catwalk"- New York Times
Dezeen Wire: "the High Line has become a tourist-clogged catwalk and a catalyst for some of the most rapid gentrification in New York's history," says author Jeremiah Moss in an article published in the New York Times. More »
Dutchess House No. 1
by Grzywinski + Pons
Shimmering aluminium panels are ridged like the top surfaces of bricks on the exterior of this country house in upstate New York by architects Grzywinski + Pons (+ slideshow). More »
Writer's Studio by
Cooper Joseph Studio
Budding novelists will lust after this writer's hideaway in upstate New York designed by New York City architects Cooper Joseph Studio (+ slideshow). More »
395 Page Mill Road
by Studio O+A
Tea Houses
by Swatt | Miers
Architects Swatt | Miers have suspended three glass pavilions over the edge of a valley in northern California (+ slideshow). More »
United States Land Port of Entry in Calais
by Robert Siegel Architects
Drivers crossing the border from Canada into the USA at Calais, Maine, would never know that there's a tranquil rock garden sandwiched between the checkpoint buildings designed by New York firm Robert Siegel Architects. More »


