Design & Architecture

	A Modest Mies Is Slated for Destruction Preservations had fought to preserve the building, which was designed by the famed German architect in the early 1950s.
	Futuristic Opera Pod Landing in Munich Vienna-based architecture firm COOP HIMMELB(L)AU presented its design for a temporary performance space this week.

• Architecture Contracts Rise in October
• Copenhagen Gets Bridge by Eliasson
• Sanaa Architect Named Director of Venice Architecture Biennial
• The Year in Tall Buildings
• Nemesis of Prince of Wales Wins Stirling Prize
• The Pavilion Heats Up
• Taubman Museum Wins International Architecture Award
• Chicago’s Spire Will Get Built, Architect Says
• In L.A., Postwar Architecture’s Preservation a Tangled Topic
• Towering Gazprom Tower Approved for St. Petersburg
• Watts Towers Celebration to Mark Their Survival 50 Years Ago
• World Monuments Fund Lists 93 Endangered Sites
• Dallas Arts-District Development Put on Hold
• Five Pritzker Winners to Help Design French Arts Center
• Japan Art Association Honors Zaha Hadid
• Empire State Building Murals Restored
• Lord Norman Foster Has Designs on the Moon
• Dutch Discoveries in New York Harbor