Why Architecture Can Improve our Lives
In Architecture is a Tool to Improve Lives, published recently by Birkhäuser, Anna Heringer impressively demonstrates what architecture can achieve for people, places and life itself. The atmospheric photographs by Iwan Baan speak for themselves. Source: Why Architecture Can Improve our Lives… Continue reading
Artist Diana Al-Hadid’s Studio Puts a Farm-Fresh Spin on Ye Olde Barn | Architectural Digest
For artist Diana Al-Hadid, her studio is nothing less than “an extension of my mind.” “I cannot really function unless I have a place to work,” she says. So who better to design a new sanctum from the ground up than the person who knows her best: her husband,… Continue reading
LA’s levitating amoeba: a radically new kind of museum
A hulking structure hangs above traffic on Wilshire Boulevard like a levitating amoeba. The concrete-and-glass colossus—designed by Peter Zumthor, a Swiss architect—is known as the David Geffen Galleries and is the new home of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (lacma), the largest art museum in western… Continue reading
Architectural Record
Peter Zumthor’s Bold Behemoth for LACMA Finally Opens April 16, 2026 After decades of controversy, the ambitious, serpentine concrete structure housing the new David Geffen Galleries makes its public debut. Source: Publications | Architectural Record… Continue reading
Michael Maltzan’s RIT Performing Arts Center Adds to a Staid Campus Palette | Architectural Record
Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), a renowned leader in STEM disciplines, offers top-of-the-line facilities within a staid suburban modernist campus. Its core—of which the first three buildings and master plan were designed by Roche-Dinkeloo following a move from downtown Rochester—opened in 1968, and since then the university has… Continue reading
DESIGN:ED Podcast: Alan Ricks & Sierra Bainbridge | Architectural Record
Architect Alan Ricks and landscape architect Sierra Bainbridge of Model of Architecture Serving Society (MASS) join Architectural Record’s DESIGN:ED podcast to discuss the impacts on community through design, their Rwanda campus for the Ellen DeGeneres Campus of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund, and the firm’s new book, Seeking… Continue reading
Kéré Architecture Completes the Goethe-Institut Dakar | Architectural Record
Established in 1951, the Munich-headquartered cultural nonprofit Goethe-Institut houses its many worldwide locations in a dizzying array of significant buildings: a magnificent art nouveau former bank in Prague; a historic shopping arcade in Riga, Latvia; and a restored 18th-century Georgian residence on Dublin’s Merrion Square, just to name… Continue reading
Peter Zumthor’s Bold Behemoth for LACMA Finally Opens | Architectural Record
More than 20 years in the works, with multiple schemes and fervid controversy, architect Peter Zumthor’s main building for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) has finally opened. Called the David Geffen Galleries, this ambitious, serpentine concrete structure—which spans over a major boulevard—emerged from a process… Continue reading
Review: I wanted to hate the new LACMA. Then I went back | Wallpaper*
If you go to the newly opened David Geffen wing of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), I recommend you head there later in the afternoon, when the sun is a little lower on the horizon. When I first visited at 11am, the sun was directly… Continue reading
Explore the new David Geffen Galleries at LACMA | Christie’s
Twenty years ago, Michael Govan was appointed director and CEO of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). Shortly afterwards, he made a phone call that would transform the institution for good. It was to the Swiss architect, Peter Zumthor, whose magnificent new building showing LACMA’s permanent collection opens… Continue reading
Discover Francis Kéré’s new book by Taschen | Wallpaper*
Known for his innovative sustainable buildings inspired by his West African heritage, Francis Kéré is an architect who moves with the ever-changing environment. Now, we can dive into the inner workings of his creative process in the new book, Francis Kéré: Building Stories. Source: Discover Francis Kéré’s new… Continue reading
Dakar: Architect Francis Kéré Showcases Sustainable Design in Senegal – Bloomberg
Pritzker Prize-winning architect Francis Kéré approached the site of the new Goethe-Institut in Dakar as a place that already held its own structure — formed by trees, shade and the logic of the land itself. Source: Dakar: Architect Francis Kéré Showcases Sustainable Design in Senegal – Bloomberg… Continue reading