Architecture

Israel Museum Kapoor Work Turns Jerusalem Upside Down (Update1) Jerusalemites will soon have their world turned upside down -- in the reflective stainless-steel surface of a sculpture by Anish Kapoor that will stand in the grounds of the renovated Israel Museum set to reopen in July.

Burj Khalifa’s Global Cousins Rise, Revamp, Disappear: Overview The improbably thin shaft of the 828-meter (2,717-foot) Burj Khalifa, a tour de force of architecture and engineering, is a reflective-glass icon of Dubai’s triumphant arrival on the world scene. Or it’s a towering monument to easy-money hubris. Take your pick.

A $500 Million Eco-Cube Will House U.S. London Embassy in 2017 Having outgrown its 1960 embassy, a Kennedy-era modernist design by Eero Saarinen, the U.S. State Department has decided that London is too important to build one of its conventional insults to local sensibilities.

U.S. Picks Kieran Timberlake Glass-Cube Design for U.K. Embassy Kieran Timberlake, a Philadelphia- based architecture firm, won a contest to design the new U.S. Embassy in London, beating three other U.S. contenders including Richard Meier, winner of the 1984 Pritzker Architecture Prize.

Israeli Dig Uncovers 3,000-Year-Old Wall From Time of Solomon An ancient stone wall uncovered just outside the Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old City may be the first structural evidence of biblical King Solomon’s building in the city, an archaeologist said today.