‘If it’s too slick, it looks like a fashion mag’: Peter Zumthor on his £110m rammed concrete gallery | Architecture | The Guardian
It is one of the world’s finest collections, full of Monets, Miros and Picassos. But is the great Swiss architect’s extension for the Beyeler Foundation a worthy addition Source: ‘If it’s too slick, it looks like a fashion mag’: Peter Zumthor on his £110m rammed concrete gallery |… Continue reading
City of the Soul: Rome, Las Vegas, and the Kintsugi of Cities – Today’s Thoughts
21st century, Adaptive Reuse, Aqueducts, architecturalpreservation, architecture, Augustus, Caesars Palace, Colsseum, europe, history, historyinarchitecture, italy, Iwan Baan, Kintsugi, Las Vegas, legacyandarchitecture, marble, nature, Pantheon, Photography, Preservation, Public Policy, real estate, Rome, Sci-Arc, sistine chapel, Soul, travel, Urban Planning, Vittoriano, water Source: City of the Soul: Rome, Las Vegas,… Continue reading
Review: World’s Largest Dingbat Lands at LACMA by Matt Shaw
Designed by Peter Zumthor, the new Geffen Galleries mirror back the bombast and beauty of urban Los Angeles, even as the museum’s first collection rehang attests that architecture alone can’t reorganize art. Source: Review: World’s Largest Dingbat Lands at LACMA by Matt Shaw… Continue reading
10 iconic Geoffrey Bawa buildings that prove he’s the modernist you need to know | Architectural Digest India
Geoffrey Bawa (1919-2003) was one of the 20th century’s most important Asian architects, often described as the pioneer of the Tropical Modernist movement. Yet despite being hugely influential, he’s far from a household name – perhaps because most of his building projects were completed in his native Sri Lanka… Continue reading
Another Cut -Iwan Baan & Sergei Sviatchenko November 2026- Het Kunstgemaal
Another Cut -Iwan Baan & Sergei Sviatchenko 10th October – 22nd November 2026 What happens when Iwan Baan’s photography meets the scissors of Sergei Sviatchenko? In Another Cut, two distinct ways of seeing and constructing come together. In his photographs Baan captures architecture as a living environment, shaped by… Continue reading
A Warehouse is Converted Into the New Home for Architecture at MIT | Architectural Record
For most of its 150-year history, MIT’s architecture department has occupied residual spaces. When the university relocated from Boston to the marshlands of Eastern Cambridge in 1916, the department stayed behind, where it had free rein in MIT’s original building. It did not cross the Charles River for two… Continue reading
The Fondation Beyeler is expanding its premises and reimagining the concept of a museum – Il Sole 24 ORE
The institution is being revitalised by bringing together art, architecture and nature. Thanks to a decade of hard work by the founders, donors, the city and the canton Source: The Fondation Beyeler is expanding its premises and reimagining the concept of a museum – Il Sole 24… Continue reading
Farshid Moussavi wins the 2026 Soane Medal for architecture
Honour awarded to the Iranian-born architect in recognition of her ‘socially intelligent’ designs that ‘reshape the world’, be they for social housing, worship or Victoria Beckham’s Mayfair boutique Source: Farshid Moussavi wins the 2026 Soane Medal for architecture… Continue reading
Ma Yansong’s Lucas Museum Makes You Look Up | Hypebeast
Speaking to Hypebeast ahead of the public opening on the 22nd, a self-described “little bit sleepless” Ma said the finished building still caught him off guard.“When you’re walking in it, it feels very big – bigger than any picture,” he says. “I feel the building is a little bit… Continue reading
Explore the Geoffrey Bawa show at Vitra Design Museum | Wallpaper*
‘Geoffrey Bawa: Architecture for the Senses’ at Vitra Design Museum invites visitors on a deep dive into the Sri Lankan architect’s life and vision The show brings together archive drawings, models, film and newly commissioned photography by Iwan Baan in an exhibition design sensitively put together by Lina Ghotmeh… Continue reading
Tour the reimagined Fondation Beyeler campus in Basel | Wallpaper*
Fondation Beyeler has just unveiled a new jewel in its crown; the art institution’s leafy Basel campus now has a rare Peter Zumthor building – and more. The site has just soft-launched an expanded collection of spaces, including an entire, brand-new museum building, a dedicated event pavilion, a… Continue reading
Expansion of the Beyeler Foundation in Riehen – Peter Zumthor | Arquitectura Viva
From September 26, 2026, to January 14, 2027, the Beyeler Foundation’s new complex will gradually open its doors to the public. The institution, which houses an outstanding collection of modern and contemporary art, opened on October 18, 1997, in Riehen, near Basel, in a building designed by Renzo Piano. Continue reading