Kind of tough to navigate this site, but rewarding images and info.

Quoted: Jože Plečnik`s Virtual Museum, image collection, interactive maps, searchable database of Plečnik`s work, articles, interviews. Bibliography, biography, special gift collection, downloads and more.

Quoted: The tactic of recycling the Olympic stadium has been billed as the first step in a new approach to the games, which could become more like a travelling circus to keep costs down and allow poorer countries to play host. Baku in Azerbaijan, Rio de Janeiro and Prague are also bidding for the 2016 games alongside Tokyo, Madrid, and Doha in Qatar.

Quoted: Abari is a socially and environmentally committed research,design and construction firm that examines, encourages, and celebrates the vernacular architectural tradition of Nepal. Nepal posses sophisticated traditional knowledge of natural materials like adobes, bamboos, stones and reed, and Abari as a research and design firm tries to promulgate these materials into contemporary design practices.

Restoration of former industrial sites in the Czech Republic...

Quoted: With opportunities for greenfield development becoming scarce, Czech authorities are increasingly switching their focus to the regeneration of vacant brownfield sites that no longer serve their original purposes.

I don't think I've ever had Grappa, but I would love to visit Ponte Vecchio.

Quoted: Bassano del Grappa's Ponte Vecchio, designed by Palladio in 1569.

Fascinating site. Construction with earth sounds very promising, I think we can learn so much from ancient building practices.

Quoted: The EARTH ARCHITECTURE website focuses on architecture constructed of mud brick (adobe), rammed earth (pisé), compressed earth block or other methods of earthen construction and serves as a database for the discussion and dissemination of events, resources, and images of earth architecture in the context of contemporary architecture culture.

A history of British architecture, with exceptional photos.

Quoted: select your time period, and get to know the chief characteristics of British architecture. Choose from the Middle Ages, Tudor and Stuart, Georgian, Victorian periods and the twentieth century.

Impressive Egyptian architect, professor, and designer of gardens in Cairo.

Quoted: University of California in Berkeley where he worked with Christopher Alexander and graduated in architecture. Parallel to his profesional practice, he teaches at Cairo University. Apart from the Farafra Oasis Project and other projects, he created another outstanding garden, El-Hod El-Marsoud (1989), and designed a cultural centre, a museum, a theatre, a children's library and a day-care centre – all for the park of Sayyeda Zainab in Cairo.