Falling Buildings

Models of a building project in Tirana, Albania by MVRDV intended to create a "liberating space for a park, recreational facilities, new public spaces and ecologic interventions," where "the stacked and twisted volumes create spectacular public spaces and provide dramatic vistas."

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LEGO Le Corbusier - Villa Savoye

This is a brilliant LEGO recreation of a Le Corbusier structure. Le Corbusier of course is one of the grand architects of "modern architecture" aka the "International Style" aka the International House of Pancakes.

And here's the real thing:

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Architecture's Ten Best of 2008

Paul Goldberger lists the ten best buildings in 2008 for the New Yorker.

In time for the 2008 Olympics, the world saw the fruits of China’s decision to put aside nationalism, hire the greatest architects from around the world, and let them do the kind of things they could never afford to do at home. That brought us two of the greatest buildings of the year, Herzog and de Meuron’s extraordinary Olympic Stadium, the stunning steel latticework structure widely known as the Bird’s Nest; and Norman Foster’s Beijing Airport, a project that was not only bigger than any other airport in the world, but more beautiful, more logically laid out, and more quickly built.

Also, Herzog and de Meuron met in kindergarten at the age of 6.

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