If you live in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, you might have noticed a few buildings going up. You also might have noticed the corner of Metropolitan and Union, a development that is wrapping itself around where Kellogs Diner is. A while back Curbed had the early renderings, and now they have the “final” (?). Ask yourself what does Williamsburg need most, go ahead ask… Not sure, how about 28,000 square feet of shopping!

Architect Minsuk Cho, of Mass Studies, designed  the new shop for Belgian fashion designer Ann Demeulemeester in Seoul’s fashionable Gangnam neighborhood.

A living garden of perennial herbs serves as teh concrete building’s skin, while bamboo hedges veil it from its neighbors.

Check out the “birds nest”, Beijing’s National Stadium. It also looks like someone’s luggage.

Continuing with “star wars” influences, we stumbled upon the Utrech University Library in the Netherlands designed by Weil Arets. I think if I had a Library at college that looked like this, I would have spent more time there. Via Archidose.

“Next to MoMA, a Tower Will Reach for the Stars”, Jean Nouvel, has designed a new building that will go up in midtown right next to the MOMA. “A new 75-story tower designed by the architect Jean Nouvel for a site next to the Museum of Modern Art in Midtown promises to be the most exhilarating addition to the skyline in a generation. Its faceted exterior, tapering to a series of crystalline peaks, suggests an atavistic preoccupation with celestial heights. It brings to mind John Ruskin