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Legendary Choreographer Merce Cunningham dies

On July 1st four of the project architects working on the September 11 Memorial & Museum gathered at the center for architecture in New York to discuss the fraught design process. This panel discussion was part of the center for architecture's exhibition entitled "A Space Within," which will be on display until September 14th, 2009.

A visit to the Great Buddha in Leshan, China, and the discovery of a house of the poet Su Dongpo. 

Hui Huishan lived the life of an ordinary young woman in China until she died in the Great Sichuan Earthquake of 2008.  The architect Liu Jiakun heard her story and built a small building as a powerful memorial to her and other victims.  

Ha! Caught you looking! Sure, we know that revenue is not the be-all, end-all for evaluating how "good" a firm is.

Chicago has always been a place for architecture enthusiasts, but this summer the city has turned it up a notch.

Chinese architects ponder whether there is a "Chinese architecture" today, and whether the question has relevance.

The Architects' Journal has released a delightful Top 10 list, The Architecture of Star Wars. It’s particularly interesting for the comparisons drawn between buildings in the movies and real life projects (the blog Life Without Buildings did something similar last year).

Britain is abuzz over another battle between Richard Rogers and Prince Charles, as the Pritzker Prize-winning architect has called for a public inquiry into what he calls an "unconstitutional" intervention that led to Rogers being fired from a multi-billion pound housing project in London.

Leading French designer Pierre Paulin died over the weekend.