From no man’s land to an archipelago of parks: BIG transforms Manhattan’s waterfront – Domus
A “parkipelago” along the East River, near the Williamsburg Bridge — designed also as protection against climate events — is only the first step: the East Side shoreline is set to become increasingly green. Source: From no man’s land to an archipelago of parks: BIG transforms Manhattan’s… Continue reading
Explore the Newly Opened Calder Gardens in Philadelphia – Galerie Magazine
The groundbreaking institution presents works by Alexander Calder within a Herzog & de Meuron building and a landscape by Piet Oudolf Source: Explore the Newly Opened Calder Gardens in Philadelphia – Galerie Magazine… Continue reading
Inside Calder Gardens, Philadelphia’s Lush New Space for the Master of the Mobile
Philadelphia’s newest cultural destination blends art and nature in Calder Gardens, a new institution dedicated to the work of Alexander Calder (1898–1976), the third in a generation of local artists.Housed in a new 18,000-square-foot Herzog & de Meuron-designed building set into a verdant landscape featuring 250 varieties of… Continue reading
The Grand Egyptian Museum is finally opening its doors after twenty years of work
Twenty years after work began, through suspensions and intermittent resumptions, announced and denied openings, “monumental” delays (as much as the ambitions of the project) amidst the Arab Spring, pandemic and political and financial instability, the Grand Egyptian Museum designed by Dublin-based Heneghan Peng Architects, in collaboration with Arup… Continue reading
Mori Art Museum & Sou Fujimoto’s “Primitive Future” Architecture
The incredible architecture of Sou Fujimoto is being celebrated with an exhibition at Tokyo’s Mori Art Museum. Sou Fujimoto: Primordial Future Forest is the Japanese architect’s first major exhibition. Split into eight sections, the survey is an innovative architecture exhibition that not only includes the usual scale models, plans, and… Continue reading
BV Doshi’s last project opens at the prestigious Vitra Campus in Germany | Architectural Digest India
Imagined by the late BV Doshi and realised by Khushnu Panthaki Hoof and Sönke Hoof of Studio Sangath, the Doshi Retreat opens at the Vitra Campus in Weil Am Rhein, Germany. Stillness. Contemplation. Memory. Ritual. Movement. These were among the many words that BV Doshi scribbled on… Continue reading
Lisbon Architecture Triennale 2025 Examines the Technosphere and Human Impact on Earth | ArchDaily
In the exhibition Fluxes at MAAT – Central Tejo, the technosphere’s mass begins in the ground. Iwan Baan’s Petroleum offers a stark portrait of the Athabasca Tar Sands in Canada, an aerial archaeology of extraction where the landscape becomes both resource and ruin. The images reveal the paradox… Continue reading
facing pyramids of giza, grand egyptian museum set to open
The Grand Egyptian Museum by heneghan peng architects has reached completion, standing just over a mile from the Pyramids of Giza. The vast complex is located on a desert plateau at the edge of Cairo, and stands as a bridge between the past and the present of the… Continue reading
The unlikely parallel between Rome’s eternal architecture and the Las Vegas Strip – Monocle
Today on the Strip, pavements swerve in and out of casinos and shopping malls as pedestrians are subjected to terrible music. It feels far from the dolce vita. But Baan, like Scott Brown and Venturi before him, has a point: the two cities have striking similarities. Both have Disney-esque… Continue reading
Is Manresa Wilds the Future of Public Parks? – The New York Times
The hike up to the roof involved Escher-like flights of metal stairs and grated catwalks like high wires, dangling above a spectacular abyss of rusted machinery. The ’60s-era control room, straight out of “Apollo 13,” opened onto a turbine hall the size of the concourse at Grand Central. Continue reading
Lezing Iwan Baan – Museum Kranenburgh
Op zondag 12 oktober organiseert Museum Kranenburgh een lezing met fotograaf Iwan Baan. In de tentoonstelling Momentum of Light toont hij een selectie van foto’s die hij in 2021 in Burkina Faso maakte van traditionele architectuur. Baan legt vast hoe de dagelijkse cyclus van het zonlicht centraal staat in… Continue reading
Sou Fujimoto, ‘What Role Can Architecture Play in an Age of Division?’ / Pen ペン
Through the design of the ‘Grand Ring’ for the 2025 Osaka World Expo, Sou Fujimoto set out to question how people across the globe might be brought together. In an era of growing divides, he reflects on the role architecture can play, while tracing the evolution of his… Continue reading