PAC NYC is a beacon of simplicity at Ground Zero | Financial Times
The World Trade Center site is a mess. All that discussion, all that discourse, the heart-rending and hand-wringing in the end resulted in a hypercommercial cluster of banal towers with the dazzling white monstrous rib cage of Santiago Calatrava’s transportation hub at its core.On the other… Continue reading
Final piece in the Ground Zero puzzle
World Trade Center’s new $500m arts venue, the Perelman Performing Arts Center, opens in September with performances by Laurie Anderson and others Source: Final piece in the Ground Zero puzzle… Continue reading
Architecture’s Second Looks, and Second Acts – The New York Times
In 2006, Joshua Ramus, a 36-year-old protégé of the Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas, left Koolhaas’s hugely influential firm, Office for Metropolitan Architecture, to go off on his own. In the kind of power play more typical of Hollywood talent agencies than architecture studios, he also took O.M.A.’s entire… Continue reading
PIN–UP | DILLER SCOFIDIO + RENFRO’s FIRST HOME IN THE HAMPTONS
“It’s like having dinner at Fallingwater,” the publicist tells the hostess who’s standing barefoot in the foyer of the weekend home she and her husband have just allowed a group of journalists to roam around in. Entirely devoid of right angles, the… Continue reading
The Story Behind This Modernist House Has as Many Twists and Turns as Its Architecture – WSJ
When it came to her houses, Julia Reyes Taubman, a Detroit-based philanthropist, photographer and collector, followed her gut, however edgy the results. “She had a fantastically educated but also madcap eye,” says Michael Lewis, the Paris-based interior designer who worked with her on several homes. Julie—as… Continue reading
SO-IL, a new condominium in New York | Abitare
In New York, the SO-IL firm has designed a condominium open to the city that has many common spaces. A bold experiment, but a successful one Source: SO-IL, a new condominium in New York | Abitare… Continue reading
Seven days with a camera. “Iwan Baan: Prague Diary” by Iwan Baan
The world-renowned photographer Iwan Baan shows an exhibition entitled “Iwan Baan: Prague Diary”, portraying his first visit to Prague. The exhibition is From May 10 to August 20, at CAMP (Center for Architecture and Metropolitan Planning), in Prague.Seven days with a camera in hand – on foot, on… Continue reading
Architects Herzog & de Meuron, the Design Duo Behind Tate Modern and Scores of Other Museums, Are Themselves the Subject of a New Exhibition
The exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts in London will go behind-the-scenes of their most ambitious projects. Source: Architects Herzog & de Meuron, the Design Duo Behind Tate Modern and Scores of Other Museums, Are Themselves the Subject of a New Exhibition… Continue reading
American cities are 70 percent suburban by area. What can architects do about it?
Amidst gentrification architects are tasked with producing an alternative to the privatized suburban world. Source: American cities are 70 percent suburban by area. What can architects do about it?… Continue reading
Winner – AIGA 50 Books | 50 Covers of 2022 – selbstverständlich, Akris – A Century in Fashion
The impressive, understated history of Akris is expressed in the title of the book. ‘Selbstverständlich’ is the German expression which, in the mind of Albert Kriemler, best encapsulates the aesthetic ideal that he wishes to accomplish with his fashion designs. For the creative director at Akris, the embodiment… Continue reading
Blue Dream and the Legacy of Modernism in the Hamptons: A House by Diller Scofidio + Renfro
Architecture critic Paul Goldberger tells the story of an extraordinary house on the Atlantic Double Dunes in East Hampton—Blue Dream, the result of a remarkable collaboration between collectors Julie Reyes Taubman and Robert Taubman, architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro, builder Ed Bulgin, landscape architect Michael Boucher and designer… Continue reading
FUORI TUTTO | MAXXI
Exhibition at the MAXXI Museum Rome 28 June 2023 > 19 November 2023 Conceived as an “open deposit,” the Collection’s new display showcases the experimentation of the most current creative scene, among the most recent acquisitions, the great masters and the younger generations. The exhibition also becomes the place to… Continue reading