The completion of Wembley National Stadium designed by Foster + Partners and HOK Sport, heralds a new chapter for Britain’s iconic venue. The new Wembley Stadium will be the first of a new generation of sports stadia, with facilities unparalleled anywhere in the world, including banqueting halls, pre-function gathering spaces and facilities for media coverage. [...]

Speaking at this week’s 11th Annual East Coast Gaming Congress, Kevin DeSanctis, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Revel Entertainment Group, announced that Arquitectonica has been named the design architect, BLT Architects has been named Executive Architect and Architect of Record and SOSH Architects has been named Associate Architect for the Company’s Atlantic City resort [...]

The many facades of Frank Lloyd Wright – selfish, hedonistic, godlike – come to light in Manhattan with the Jan. 30 opening of Richard Nelson’s Frank’ Home.
Robert Falls directs the New York City premiere of the play about Wright re-connecting with his adult children while scoping out work in Los Angeles in 1923. The production [...]

The “Glass Cathedral” — the Berlin central railway station that is Europe’s biggest and most beautiful transport hub — was supposed to be a shining symbol of the new self-confident Germany.
Instead, the Hauptbahnhof station is at the centre of a bitter row about the relationship between an architect and his paymaster that is likely to [...]

It seems as if Buddha is watching from lots of places these days. Gold, stone, clay and even porcelain renderings of the spiritual symbol can be seen peering from bookcases, anchoring gardens and offering peace to dining rooms.
The prevalence of Buddha is one example of the steady influence of Asian interior design. With styles [...]

New Orleans should embrace its watery environment and restore wetlands as it rebuilds, suggests a prize-winning architect hired to design a modernistic central park in the city’s downtown.
Thom Mayne, known for maverick designs, urged New Orleans to treat the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina last year as a chance to re-imagine the city, adding both [...]

‘Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe, a German-born pioneer of modern architecture, was famous for his aphorism ‘God is in the details’,” says Asaf Sadeh as he gently pushes an iced cappuccino out of his elbow space. “He was right, and this is the philosophy I and my partner, Guy Zur, live by in our own [...]

The Arioso Baroque ensemble will perform music composed during John Carr’s lifetime – 1760 to the early 1800s – at the recently refurbished St Peter and St Leonard’s Church.
The church was originally built by John Carr, the 18th century architect and Lord Mayor of York, whose body lies in the church crypt. He was born [...]

Over a career that spans a half-century, Memphis architect Jack Schaffer has designed thousands of buildings. Many are like the old slogan of Schaffer’s first client, Holiday Inn of America — “The best surprise is no surprise at all” — they are attractive, functional and resemble scores of sister designs.
The Hilton Garden Inn at Seventh [...]

A carousel is meant to spin dreams — and that’s just what it’s done for designers at the Philadelphia chapter of the American Institute of Architecture, which sponsors the Community Design Collaborative.
The group has dreamt up plans for a carousel campus to house the future Carousel at Pottstown — and it didn’t cost a [...]

Over a career that spans a half-century, Memphis architect Jack Schaffer has designed thousands of buildings. Many are like the old slogan of Schaffer’s first client, Holiday Inn of America — “The best surprise is no surprise at all” — they are attractive, functional and resemble scores of sister designs.
The Hilton Garden Inn at Seventh [...]

Designer deckchairs ranging from models with a hand-painted lady by the cartoonist Quentin Blake, to a recipe scrawled on its back by the chef Fergus Henderson, to Paul Smith’s hallmark stripesfeatured among a batch of 700 exclusively commissioned sun-loungers in four London parks yesterday.
The prints, which range from the dainty to the eccentric – including [...]