After what one commented coined was “a real estate civil war,” The Sheffield is open for business near Columbus Circle. It looks like your typical luxury high-rise to us, save for some prime views onto Norman Foster’s tower for Hearst Publishing. [via CurbedNY]

Speaking of Norman Foster, Foster + Partners broke ground on its first project in Vietnam. The mixed-use development in Hanoi will house the VietinBank headquarters — plus conference, hotel and leisure facilities — and the main building is shaped like a ‘V.’ Literal! [via Foster + Partners]

Austin-Smith Lord designed a £40 million distillery for Diageo, the first major distillery built in Scotland in three decades and likely one of the world’s only such energy efficient structures. Can bioenergy run on beer? [via Building Design Online]

This weekend, architecture whiz Ian Volner will lead a free (seriously: free) walking tour of downtown tracking the woulda-been layout of Paul Rudolph’s fantastical plan for a Lower Manhattan Expressway. The jaunt begins at 2pm sharp at the corner of Canal Street and Bowery and wraps an hour at The Cooper Union in the East Village, where Rudolph’s drawings for the ambitious project are on display for the first time ever. [via The Drawing Center]

Yale University design student Benjamin Critton put together a very clever mini-book called Evil People in Modernist Homes in Popular Films. The title is self-explanatory and includes film stills from James Bond to Blade Runner to Ang Lee’s The Ice Storm. Buy it at Printed Matter. [via Dwell]

Paul Rudolph, Lower Manhattan Expressway, New York, NY, 1967-1972. Project Not Built.

Roseisle Distillery by Austin-Smith Lord, photo by Keith Hunter.

Roseisle Distillery by Austin-Smith Lord, photo by Keith Hunter.

by Kelsey Keith

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