From UC Davis to the National Mall: Key architecture projects this fall – Los Angeles Times
By Christopher Hawthorne, Architecture Critic Read the complete article in the Los Angeles Times…… Continue reading
See Iwan Baan’s stunning photos of BIG’s Via 57 West – Architects Newspaper
Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG)’s Via 57 West seems to have already assumed an iconic status on Manhattan’s west side. Look no further than the trailer for Marvel’s Doctor Strange which—in addition to having 15 million views—prominently features the rental development in its opening setting shot. Read the complete article in… Continue reading
Kibera Hamlets School, SelgasCano – Wall Street Journal
By FRED BERNSTEIN KIBERA, a district of Nairobi, Kenya, is one of the largest slums in Africa, thought to house up to a million people. But now a beacon of innovative architecture has appeared among its rusty metal roofs. Earlier this year, the dark, dilapidated home of the Kibera Hamlets School… Continue reading
DS+R’s New Columbia Med-School Building – New York Magazine
I know little of a medical student’s life, but I imagine it to be a time of sensual deprivation: skin sallowed by round-the-clock exposure to artificial light, eyesight sacrificed to 25-pound textbooks, the palate scoured by stale coffee. But the Columbia medical school’s new Vagelos Education Center, designed by Diller… Continue reading
Tippet Rise Art Center – Architectural Record
Balancing Act: On a majestic landscape in Montana, Ensamble Studio creates a group of enigmatic sculptural works for Tippet Rise Art Center. See the complete gallery in Architectural Record… Other news coverage: The Creators Project, August 5, 2016 Architectural Record, June 16, 2016… Continue reading
Iwan Baan’s first look inside the Manetti Shrem Art Museum by SO-IL and Bohlin Cywinski Jackson
The Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art is set to open in Davis, California on November 13, as construction is wrapping up. The building is a collaboration of associated architects SO-IL of New York, and the San Francisco office of Bohlin Cywinski Jackson. The museum has been… Continue reading
Kasungu Maternity Waiting Village
Against the backdrop of a brush-covered hilltop in central Malawi, women in brightly colored clothing gather to cook, chat, or simply rest amid a cluster of small buildings that rises from the sparsely vegetated landscape. Boston-based MASS Design Group’s latest project—a “maternity waiting village” near the Kasungu District Hospital—aims to… Continue reading
What to See First: Your GPS Guide to the Tate Modern – The New York Times
On Friday the world’s most popular modern art museum, the Tate Modern, opens a new 10-story wing designed by the Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron. Called the Switch House, the extension will show off contemporary work, including film, installation and live performance, and… Continue reading
Glass act: BIG’s Serpentine pavilion and its four summer houses revealed – Wallpaper
Initiated by outgoing gallery director Julia Peyton-Jones, the Serpentine Gallery’s programme of pavilion building began at the turn of the century with a tensile structure by the late Zaha Hadid. Sixteen years later, and the pavilion is a highlight of the summer calendar, both in terms of its creative direction… Continue reading
Serpentine pavilion 2016: Bjarke Ingels’ pyramid for the Minecraft generation – The Guardian
Is it a wall? Is it a cave? Actually, this year’s pavilion started life as shelves – but it has gawp-factor by the bucketload. And for those who like follies, there are four satellite summer houses to explore too. Read the complete article in The Guardian… Other news coverage:… Continue reading
Covers By Iwan Baan – Achitectural Record
The AIA New York recently awarded the Stephen A. Kliment Oculus Award to RECORD contributing photographer Iwan Baan. These are the five covers he shot for the magazine in the last year. Read the complete article on Architectural Record…… Continue reading
Frank Gehry’s Fondation Louis Vuitton gets a technicolor makeover – CNN
French artist Daniel Buren has turned the Fondation Louis Vuitton into a giant kaleidoscope for his latest installation, Observatory of Light. Read the complete article on CNN.com…… Continue reading