Concrete thinking: Thomas Heatherwick is on a Cape crusade | Wallpaper*
Source: Concrete thinking: Thomas Heatherwick is on a Cape crusade | Wallpaper*
In a Remote Senegalese Village, International Artists Are Learning from Local Creatives
Source: In a Remote Senegalese Village, International Artists Are Learning from Local Creatives
Mocaa, Cape Town: grain silo reborn as Africas answer to Tate Modern | The Guardian
Source: Mocaa, Cape Town: grain silo reborn as Africas answer to Tate Modern | World news | The Guardian
John Portman’s America – SURFACE
Photographer Iwan Baan captures the human side of the architect’s work. Source: John Portman’s America – SURFACE Magazine At 92, many architects would be satisfied with a standard monograph filled with glossy pages and archival images. But not John Portman. In Portman’s America & Other Speculations (Lars Müller Publishers), editor Mohsen Mostafavi has instead paired […]
Portman’s America & Other Speculations – Harvard Graduate School of Design Exhibition and Lecture
Exhibition and Lecture at Harvard GSD Boston: Portman’s America & Other Speculations – Harvard Graduate School of Design AUG 28 – OCT 27, 2017 Location: Frances Loeb Library, Harvard GSD Boston Combining the talents of an architect, artist and developer, John Portman was able to embark on a series of large-scale building projects —megastructures—that radically redefined the […]
SelgasCano’s Surreal Auditorium in Western Spain | 2017-08-02 | Architectural Record
The Spanish firm pays respect to nature by jolting it with the surreal.The plastic congress center is alien to both its natural setting and to the scruffy city outskirts behind it, a condition underscored at night, when the skin becomes a glowing lantern. Inside, this sense of estrangement is all-encompassing. The ETFE, luminous in daylight, […]
Vijversburg Visitor Center by Junya Ishigami & Associates and Studio Maks | 2017-08-01 | Architectural Record
What happens when nature, science, and architecture come together? If done well, a work of art is created. A recent example of this sits hidden in the grounds of Park Groot Vijversburg in Tytsjerk, a small town in the Dutch province of Friesland, 93 miles northeast of Amsterdam. It is a slender glass pavilion designed […]
Out now: Portman’s America: & Other Speculations, edited by Mohsen Mostafavi
Portman’s America & Other Speculations Edited by Mohsen Mostafavi Legendary architect, artist, and developer John Portman, Jr., is recognized for radically reshaping the relationship of architecture to city and citizen. He pioneered the role of architect as developer, and redefined the design and function of the American hotel with his trademark soaring atrium. Source: Out […]