The Tate Modern has announced a new development in the plan for its new wing. World-renowned Swiss Architectural firm, Herzog & de Meuron, has designed the new plan for the extension, called Tate Modern 2 (TM2). Read More about it at art observed.

We kind of stumbled on this from clicking on some links at NotCot. I thought it was a pretty beautiful image, very Tufte. From Sub-Studio.

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.