DS+R reimagines a warehouse for MIT’s School of Architecture and Planning – SURFACE
Diller Scofidio + Renfro has completed the conversion of MIT’s historic Metropolitan Warehouse into a new 195,000-square-foot home for the School of Architecture and Planning, replacing decades of scattered facilities spread across campus. Built in 1894 and expanded through 1923, the fortress-like red-brick warehouse sat largely unused despite sitting… Continue reading
Diller Scofidio + Renfro opens new home for architecture at MIT
Two things came to mind when I saw the new 195,000-square-foot home of MIT’s School of Architecture and Planning, in a historic warehouse building. First, Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R), despite its success with ground-up commissions like The Broad in downtown Los Angeles, the Roy and Diana Vagelos Education… Continue reading
In Barbados, a New School for an Island Future – Metropolis
Just a few steps from the crystal blue waters of Carlisle Bay in Bridgetown, Barbados, AMMA Architects’ Oceana Innovation Hub is a two-story mass timber building wrapped in bands of bright pastel, with deep verandas and louvered accordion shutters that open directly to the sea breeze. Its interconnected pyramidal roofs… Continue reading
Met Warehouse opens as the new home of MIT’s School of Architecture and Planning | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
In a feat of adaptive reuse, a massive, century-old brick storage facility has been turned into a contemporary hub for collaboration and creative work. Source: Met Warehouse opens as the new home of MIT’s School of Architecture and Planning | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology… Continue reading
Peter Zumthor Debuts David Geffen Galleries at LACMA
Suspended above Wilshire Boulevard like a mirage of stone and shadow, Peter Zumthor’s David Geffen Galleries for LACMA transform the museum into a drifting landscape of light, memory, weather, and human feeling. Source: Peter Zumthor Debuts David Geffen Galleries at LACMA… Continue reading
The Vitra Design Museum Opens the First Geoffrey Bawa Retrospective in Two Decades, and Other News. – SURFACE
The Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein is opening the first major retrospective of Geoffrey Bawa’s work in twenty years. Titled “Architecture for the Senses,” the show gathers over 250 objects—drawings, models, furniture, film, and photography—tracing the five-decade career of the Sri Lanka-born, London-trained architect who fused modernist… Continue reading
The Coffee Tables in This Modernist-Inspired L.A. Home Are Boulders Excavated From the Site – Dwell
Custom furnishings round out architect Diego Cano Lasso’s reinterpretation of the midcentury post-and-beam style. Source: The Coffee Tables in This Modernist-Inspired L.A. Home Are Boulders Excavated From the Site – Dwell… Continue reading
Tomás Bilbao by Tatiana Bilbao | MAS Context
The work of photographer Iwan Baan is presented in dialogue with the archival material of Tomás Bilbao’s projects. Through this intersection between contemporary photography and original documents—plans, drawings, and records—an expanded reading of each work is proposed, capable of placing it in its origin and in its present.Baan’s photographs look… Continue reading
Tomás Bilbao por Tatiana Bilbao: Un legado que se sigue habitando, transformando y cuidando – Arquine
Del 27 de mayo al 11 de septiembre de 2026, el Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos Vasco-Navarro (COAVN), en Bilbao, presenta Tomás Bilbao por Tatiana Bilbao, Source: Tomás Bilbao por Tatiana Bilbao: Un legado que se sigue habitando, transformando y cuidando – Arquine… Continue reading
Geoffrey Bawa: Architecture for the Senses
Geoffrey Bawa: Architecture for the Senses 26 September 2026–28 February 2027 An exhibition by the Vitra Design Museum, M+, and the Wüstenrot Foundation, in collaboration with the Geoffrey Bawa Trust. The exhibition also includes newly commissioned works by photographer Iwan Baan that capture the lived-in quality of some of… Continue reading
Mise en Scène. Fashion photography from the Belle Époque to the present day
Iwan Baan: Foto-Essay anlässlich des 100-jährigen Firmenjubiläums von Akris, 2022.„Mise en Scene. Modefotografie von der Belle Époque bis heute“. Eine Ausstellung im Textilmuseum St.Gallen, 3.7.26-28.2.27.Foto: Jürg Zürcher, 2026 Mise en Scène brings together works by renowned photographers and studios such as Séeberger Frères, Atelier d’Ora Benda, Helmut… Continue reading
Michael Heizer’s “bulldozer art” is a precedent for LACMA’s new David Geffen Galleries
“Would you have some time to connect with Michael Govan by phone?” The question, coming from a LACMA comms executive, seemed ominous. Govan, LACMA’s powerful director, had heard I was writing a piece comparing the museum’s new $730 million David Geffen Galleries to the land art of James… Continue reading