CONTEMPORIST » W New York - Downtown - Hotel & Residences. i’d love to have a place that looks like it’s from the future.

CONTEMPORIST » Walter Towers by Bjarke Ingels Group. crazy building going up in prague. looks like something you’d expect in china.

Basque Health HQ. Spaniards do love their modern architecture. the photos looks even better with the dark skies.

CONTEMPORIST » Aleph by Foster & Partners begins construction. condo in buenos aires. some gorgeous interiors.

CONTEMPORIST » A Penthouse Where Nature Meets Architecture. links to a new york times article and slideshow. this is probably the coolest condo unit i’ve ever seen.

ASLA 2008 Professional Awards. awards for landscape architects. some crazy nice lawns.

Architect video home tour in San Diego. lots of great design elements. really like the floor LED lights on the stairs.

Marmol Radziner assembles a Venice prefab, and video captures the coming-together - Los Angeles Times. interesting to see a prefab house actually being put into a residential lot.

CONTEMPORIST » Modern Treehouses by Baumraum. crazy.

CONTEMPORIST » Supermarkets with Style. that definitely makes loblaws look ghetto.

Spin doctor — chicagotribune.com. about decorating a Calatrava building. He’s also got an insane 150 story residential project in Chicago.

CONTEMPORIST » The Capitol Residence by Pb Elemental Architecture. gorgeous house that just finished near my old place in seattle. pimp!

CONTEMPORIST » Floating Home in Seattle. now that is a nice houseboat.

Making a Rubik’s Cube studio seem effortless - (37signals). the nytimes has a series of articles about making use of small spaces.

CONTEMPORIST » New Condo Building in New York. i can’t wait until everything looks like minority report.

CONTEMPORIST » Study Space at Ørestad College in Denmark. that’s one nice study space. think my next workspace needs some sumo bean chairs.

The Accidental Environmentalists “A chronic problem with employee retention led this pragmatic client to building green.” crade to cradle mentioned people leaving and returning to work for Herman Miller because of nice their facilities are.

Charles Bremner - Times Online - Eiffel Tower hit by fantasy. i linked to this story the other day.

Architecture: Koolhaas Transforming House Is Worthy of Iron Man, Batman, and Optimus Prime Combined. random.

CONTEMPORIST » New Look for Eiffel Tower “In celebration of the 120th birthday of the Eiffel Tower, the top floor is being extended by bolting a new temporary structure onto it”.