Vagelos Education Center, Columbia University by Diller Scofidio + Renfro
‘Rolling up the street’ was the starting idea for this 14-storey addition to the Columbia Medical School by Diller Scofido + Renfro. With it the practice has also realised a 20-year long exploration of a continuous surface building, albeit as a specific response to site and program. Read the… Continue reading
Lycée Schorge by Kéré Architecture
When Susanne Pertl, a board member at the Stern Stewart Institute in Munich, first saw the work of Diébédo Francis Kéré, she knew he would be the ideal architect for an organization that promotes education and entrepreneurship in West Africa. Kéré had grown up in a remote village in Burkina… Continue reading
25 Masterpieces That Prove 2016 Was an Incredible Year for Architecture
By Sam Lubell – In 2016, the best architects rethought everything. They transformed familiar building types like skyscrapers, offices, and museums. They resurrected once-neglected materials like brick and plywood. They tweaked expected features like skylights and balconies. And they found novel ways to fuse structures with their surroundings, carving… Continue reading
New concert hall by MAD Architects in Harbin, Northern China
A new concert hall now proudly stands in China’s coldest metropolis: the Harbin Opera designed by MAD Architects. It defies the icy cold with its rounded shapes. Read the complete article on Stylepark…… Continue reading
Speaking at Bauwelt Kongress: Memoirs from the City – About This Place, Recent Projects by Iwan Baan
Iwan Baan was one of the speakers on the Bauwelt Kongress 2016 in Berlin. ‘Memoirs from the City – About This Place’. Read more…… Continue reading
Faena Forum by OMA, Miami Beach, Florida
By Beth Broome – A Miami Beach vacation usually has more to do with the fulfillment of hedonistic pleasures than sating an appetite for the arts. But the Faena Forum, a cultural center designed by OMA New York, has been charged with bringing enlightenment to a new development in the midst of… Continue reading
UTEC Campus Building in Lima Wins First-Ever RIBA International Prize
By Anna Fixsen – Though Dublin-based Grafton Architects may not be celebrating Thanksgiving, they’re likely feeling thankful today: This evening, the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) named the firm’s impressive new building for the Universidad de Ingenieria y Tecnologia (UTEC) in Lima, Peru,… Continue reading
The Manetti Shrem Museum of Art by SO-IL & Bohlin Cywinski Jackson
By Josephine Minutillo – Beginning in the early 1960s, the University of California at Davis became home to a thriving academic art scene, with influential figures Wayne Thiebaud, known for his colorful paintings of everyday objects, and Robert Arneson, father of the Funk movement, among its diverse faculty. In recent years,… Continue reading
Elbphilharmonie by Herzog & de Meuron
After 13 years of planning and construction, Herzog & de Meuron’s Hamburg concert hall opens. By Suzanne Stephens – Like a giant seafaring ship with rippling sails of glass instead of canvas and a brick base instead of a wood hull, the new Elbphilharmonie commands the harbor of Hamburg’s still-active port in… Continue reading
Visual Arts Building at the University of Iowa by Steven Holl Architects
By Josephine Minutillo Inspired by Picasso’s Cubist composition for a 1912 guitar sculpture, Steven Holl’s first building for the University of Iowa is a stealth work of architecture whose layered weathering-steel assembly and light structure hugs its site and juts out over a quarry pond. His second one is nothing… Continue reading
11 Must See TED Photography Talks
TED Talks are known for their inspiring, wise and knowledgeable speakers. Have you been in need of some inspiration lately? If yes, these 11 videos just hit the spot. Read more at Online Read…… Continue reading
This Nonprofit Architecture Firm Transformed a Rwandan School
Text by Fred A. Bernstein, Photography by Iwan Baan Rwanda is trying to put its history of war and genocide behind it. Landlocked and without substantial natural resources, the country is investing in its people, turning to education as a force for change. Recent reforms have included raising the standards… Continue reading