The Globe and Mail’s Sarah Milroy chats with Danel Libeskind, starchitect of the controversial new ROM Crystal.
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Controversy thrives when self pronounced environmentalists become developers.
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A controversial decision by a Spanish judge ruled that the public utility of the addition to Santiago Calatrava’s 1997 footbridge over the Nervión River in Bilbao by another architect, took precedence over his private artistic right to control alterations to his work.
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Master designer dropped hospital project because P3 would have reduced his control
HENRY AUBIN, The Gazette
Published: Saturday, December 08
When McGill University Health Centre persuaded Moshe Safdie to help design its new hospital a year ago, the recruiting coup eased public skepticism about the project. The participation of this hugely gifted architect was a concrete sign the [...]

While filming on a set in New Orleans, actor Brad Pitt became seduced by the powerful image of a pink-clad CGI house within the lush Louisiana surroundings. He saw the pink structure as a metaphor, representing the future of renewed housing for those displaced by the recent disasters.
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It was the biggest prize in architecture – and its creator took on earthquakes, hostile locals and 104 court cases. Jonathan Glancey reports from Athens on a momentous achievement
Monday December 3, 2007
The Guardian
It was a day unlike any other. Bernard Tschumi arrived at his office in New York’s Chelsea Village to receive a phone call. [...]

Renowned Vancouver architect launched his reputation with 1963 home
Jennifer Saltman, The Province with file from Cheryl Chan
Published: Monday, December 03, 2007
The owner of an Arthur Erickson-designed West Vancouver home is continuing with his plans to demolish the landmark.
Shiraz Lalji has applied to the District of West Vancouver for a demolition permit because the house, which [...]

LISA ROCHON
From Saturday’s Globe and Mail
December 1, 2007 at 12:03 AM EST
TORONTO — Despite moving through the rain and cold, despite having to travel down wooden ladders and through muddy puddles on the floor, the truth about the redesign of Toronto’s Art Gallery of Ontario, I discovered, is not to be found stuffed into packing [...]

By ROBIN POGREBIN
New York Times
Published: December 3, 2007
Thom Mayne of Morphosis in Los Angeles designed a house that would float if the city floods. James Timberlake of KieranTimberlake Associates in Philadelphia created a house with native vines climbing up the side walls to provide shade and coolness. Steven B. Bingler of Concordia in New Orleans [...]

Tokyo, Japan
SOM/NY; EDAW; Communication Arts; Fisher Marantz Stone; Buro Happold; Nikken Sekkei; Sakakura Associates; Jun Aoki

A group of Western and Japanese designers try to create a Rockefeller Center for 21st-century Tokyo
By Naomi R. Pollock, AIA – This is an excerpt of an article from the November 2007 edition of Architectural Record.
For years, the Japanese have [...]