Metropolitan Life dropped this bombshell right before the Labor Day news cycle (Curbed is on vacation this week, nuff said right there): Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village are up for sale. All 80 acres of prime Manhattan real estate,...

We usually don't like reposting press releases, but this one from the High Line is unusually detailed. The first phase of construction, removal of debris and nonstructural concrete, has been completed for Section 1, from Gansevoort Street to 20th...

A month ago we pointed out something posted by our friends at Tranism about some abandoned housing pods outside of Taipei. It was our response to the craze over some overhyped pods in a recent New York City loft...

Last week saw the opening of the Glass Pavilion at the Toledo Museum of Art. Sanaa, the Japanese architectural firm led by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, designed the curved-glass-walled structure. It joins one of Frank Gehry's early lead-coated-copper-clad structures...

Iowa University's New Art and Art History Building is "opening" on September 8. At least that's what the press release said. The building appears to be knitted into its site the way only a Steven Holl-design building can be: smartly...

The owner of Richard Meier's first house has kindly sent us pictures of the house in its current state, as well as notes on their pending restoration: The original Meier house was largely a glass rectangle,the bottom half of the...

The World Monuments Fund released its 100 Most Endangered Sites annual list earlier this year, and Melnikov's House and Studio in Moscow was on the list. Metropolis published a short piece on it, and it regularly appears in architecture surveys...

Amongst a busy week here at Tropolism, a reader, who happens to own Richard Meier's first building, writes us some notes on the structure: My husband and I own Richard Meier's first house that he built in Lonelyville,Fire Island. It...

The New York Times' article on the guy overseeing the preservation of Philip Johnson's estate in New Canaan notes that April 2007 is when several buildings on the estate will be open to the public. We regarded the Glass House...

It's been a little while since we had a stadium to write about. The New York Times obliges us by publishing an article by Nicolai Ourousoff about the Peter Eiesenman/HOK Sport creation for the Arizona Cardinals' new stadium, Glendale, Arizona....

Pruned posts a long and fantastical article called Versailles In The Pacific. It begins with the announcement of a device called AMOEBA (Advanced Multiple Organized Experimental Basin, of course), which gives humankind the ability to write the letter "S"...

A friend came back from Brazil yesterday with a story about meeting Oscar Niemeyer. She didn't speak much Spanish or Portuguese, so their conversation kind of stopped at him saying "yes, the space between buildings and the city are important."...

Yesterday's call for information on Richard Meier's first house (somewhere on Fire Island) registered several quick replies,. First was the ever-vigilant-to-RSS-updates Greg Allen, who dutifully quoted interviews with Anne Bancroft stating that the house was located in Lonelyville. Next came...

Tropolism will be at the beach this week, looking for Richard Meier's first house. See you next week! (If you know the location of said house, or have pictures, do send them our way.)...