Inaugurated on November 21st, the Kinder Building is the latest project by Steven Holl Architects for the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, one of the largest museum institutions in the United States. This concludes the process, which began with a competition involving 12 international firms and won by Holl in January 2012. In this […]
In October 2020, Architectural Record explores multifamily housing and the future of cities. This month’s Continuing Education feature takes a deep dive into environmental inequity. The issue also reviews the Eisenhower Memorial in Washington, D.C., and the Rothko Chapel restoration and expansion in Houston. In the news section, read about the five winners of RECORD’s […]
Damaged by the Beirut blast, a Lebanese architect’s new residential tower is a product of its highly charged context. Source: Stone Garden by Lina Ghotmeh | 2020-09-21 | Architectural Record
Caracas WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 30, 12:30 PM PST A Series of live online conversations hosted by the University of British Columbia’s School of Architecture GREG GIRARD in conversation with IWAN BAAN This conversation will focus on Baan’s work on Torre David, a nearly-completed but abandoned 45-story office tower in Caracas, occupied by some 1000 families living […]
National Museum of Qatar by Philip JodidioLast year saw a bumper crop of impressive museum unveilings — David Adjaye’s Ruby City in Texas, Addenda Architects’ Bauhaus Museum Dessau — but the most spectacular had to be the National Museum of Qatar. Jean Nouvel’s sprawling “desert rose,” an 11-gallery masterpiece composed of hundreds of interlaced disks, […]
The forced relocation of the northernmost city in Sweden is more than a gigantic architectural project. It is also a test for a society at the crossroads. (Places Journal – Gideon Fink Shapiro) Another key work, Global Kiruna, tracks the journey of iron ore, via trains and ships and factories, from the depths of the […]
Get a copy of the now out of print and rare book African Modernism, or many other items at the Design Yard Sale. The Design Yard Sale is selling and auctioning creative works by designers to raise funds for the Bail Project and Colloqate Design, organizations that fight against systemic, anti-Black racism. It’s time we call […]
Broadcast from ArkDes, Sweden’s national centre for architecture and design, you’re invited to a 360° tour of the exhibition Kiruna Forever. Kiruna – a city in the northernmost part of Sweden – is experiencing one of the biggest urban transformation projects in recent history. The city is being relocated by three kilometres due to […]