Quoted: Clingstone is a faded and shingled 103-year-old mansion set on a rock in Rhode Island’s Narragansett Bay.

Would love to go here ...

Quoted: The Plečnik Collection is kept at a separate location of the Architecture Museum of Ljubljana, consisting of a complex of Plečnik’s houses at 4–6 Karun Street and an adjacent garden with a lapidarium. The architect Jože Plečnik moved to a single-storey house at 4 Karun Street in 1921. From 1923 to 1925 he expanded it with a cylindrical annex to the west and a winter garden to the south after he bought the neighbouring building in 1929.

Jože Plečnik exhibition on through the end of August.

Quoted: Wednesday, 14 May 2008 - Sunday, 31 August 2008
Brussels, Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels

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: One of the world’s most ambitious building projects, Crystal Island has been granted preliminary planning permission in Moscow. Enclosed within a vast mega structure covering a total floor area of 2.5million square metres – the project’s scale is unprecedented. At 450m the scheme in one of the tallest structures enclosing the largest volume, on the planet.

Quoted: In 1996, the Van Alen Institute hosted “Public Property,” a competition for Governors Island that called for ideas about how the island could be used if it were to become public property. Now that the land is public, and five teams are competing to design the island’s future, panelists convened town-meeting style to discuss the relevance of open ideas competitions in general, and speculate about how the original competition may have influenced current proposals.

Quoted: Robert Booth examines Gordon Brown's utopian vision for housing in the 21st century

Quoted: The musician’s latest project: turning a building into a gargantuan cast-iron orchestra.