Currents: Anish Kapoor’s New Sculpture Arrives in New York | Architectural Record
“The city can feel frenetic, fast, and hard, imposing architecture, concrete, noise. Mirrors cause us to pause, to be absorbed and pulled, in a way that disrupts time—slows it down, perhaps.”—Anish Kapoor Source: Currents: Anish Kapoor’s New Sculpture Arrives in New York | Architectural Record… Continue reading
Mathew & Ghosh Architects’ Museum Of Art and Photography in Bangalore photographed by Iwan Baan
The Museum of Art & Photography, housed in a state-of-the-art building in South India’s capital city, was designed by Bangalore-based architects Mathew & Ghosh Architects. The museum is close to the 296-acre Cubbon Park and the UB City Mall, both visible from the upper levels, and according to the… Continue reading
ArtAsiaPacific: Ambitious Museum of Art and Photography Opens in Bengaluru
After months of construction delays, South India’s first major private art museum, the Museum of Art and Photography (MAP), will open in Bengaluru (Bangalore) on February 18. Founded by philanthropist and art collector Abhishek Poddar, the nonprofit museum spells new beginnings for the art scene in Bengaluru, an… Continue reading
B. V. Doshi: Iwan Baan photographs the architect’s most iconic architecture | Architectural Digest India
I’ve known of B.V. Doshi’s work since my first trip to Ahmedabad in 1999, when I visited his Amdavad ni Guha. But I only met him about a year ago. We wanted to collaborate on a longer documentation of his work – how it has changed and been… Continue reading
Tucson’s memorial ‘Embrace’ reckons with Giffords mass shooting – Los Angeles Times
Welcome to a uniquely American form of monument-making: the memorial to the mass shooting. The January 8th Memorial was designed by a team that included landscape and architecture firm Chee Salette and artist Rebeca Méndez — who are based in Los Angeles — with lighting design by Wilfried… Continue reading
Tribute: Balkrishna Doshi (1927–2023) | Architectural Record
Balkrishna Doshi, the Indian architect whose myriad accolades include the 2018 Pritzker Architecture Prize and 2022 RIBA Royal Gold Medal, died on January 24 at the age of 95 in Ahmedabad. What follows is a personal remembrance honoring the life and work of the celebrated Modernist. Source: Tribute:… Continue reading
Back in Print, Second Edition of “African Modernism” Surveys Architecture Across the Continent | Architectural Record
Back in Print, Second Edition of ‘African Modernism’ Surveys Architecture Across the ContinentReview: ‘African Modernism. The Architecture of Independence: Ghana, Senegal, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Zambia,’ edited by Manuel Herz with Ingrid Schröder, Hans Focketyn, and Julia Jamrozik The book examines more than 100 architectural works and presents… Continue reading
Balkrishna Doshi, Modernist Indian Architect, Is Dead at 95 – The New York Times
Balkrishna Doshi, an architect who helped bring modernism to his native India, at first collaborating with Le Corbusier and Louis Kahn and then developing his own approach to building in his country, died on Tuesday at his home in Ahmedabad, India, which he designed and named Kamala House,… Continue reading
Offices from the past help us imagine the workspaces of the future | Financial Times
The best of these buildings (many still under threat) have lasted because they are beautiful. In The Office of Good Intentions, the architect Florian Idenburg and co-author LeeAnn Suen take a wider view of work, including cult sites such as Paolo Soleri’s Arcosanti in the Arizona desert, the… Continue reading
Kevin Daly and Productora’s Houston Endowment Headquarters Takes Cues from the City’s Shaded Oak Canopies | Architectural Record
Throughout Houston, live oak trees extend their gnarly branches and evergreen leaves over sidewalks and lawns, providing welcome shade in a hot, humid climate. Having gone to graduate school at Rice University in Houston, Kevin Daly was familiar with the trees and the protective canopy they provide. So… Continue reading
Review: ‘The Office of Good Intentions,’ by Idenberg & Suen
In olden days, offices grew as the world shrank. Sunset-free empires and vast trade networks released oceans of paperwork that in turn created a demand for record-keepers, copy-makers, storage systems, evolving technologies of communication, and the real estate to accommodate them all. Offices became the material manifestation of… Continue reading
SANAA Creates a New Landmark for Sydney at the Art Gallery of New South Wales | Architectural Record
The reimagined Art Gallery of New South Wales incorporates cascading glass pavilions and World War II-era bunkers. Source: SANAA Creates a New Landmark for Sydney at the Art Gallery of New South Wales | Architectural Record… Continue reading