Grace Farms by SANAA Wins Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize
The biennial award recognizes distinguished architectural projects in North and South America. Last night at a benefit dinner held Illinois Institute of Technology’s S. R. Crown Hall, Grace Farms—a project of the Pritzker Prize-winning firm SANAA—was honored with the 2014/2015 Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP). Read the… Continue reading
Tour a Forest Guesthouse That Sleeps 5, But Has No Bedrooms
By Wendy Goodman Steven Holl is one of a handful of global architects who have changed the way we move through cities. (See, for instance, his Linked Hybrid complex in Beijing, which connects eight towers via pedestrian walkways.) Now he’s taken that same spirit… Continue reading
10 of the best TED Talks about architecture
Architecture photographer Iwan Baan delivered a presentation in 2013 about communities around the globe that have adapted to challenging conditions in amazing ways. He features the occupants of Torre David, the unfinished tower in Venezuela, and residents of a floating slum in Nigeria called Makoko. He also speaks about the… Continue reading
RIBA announces 2017 Honorary Fellowships
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has today (Thursday 29 September) announced the 2017 RIBA Honorary Fellowships, which will be awarded to seventeen individuals from a diverse spectrum of backgrounds, including journalism, local government, art, architectural history and design. RIBA Honorary Fellowships are awarded annually to people who have… Continue reading
From UC Davis to the National Mall: Key architecture projects this fall – Los Angeles Times
By Christopher Hawthorne, Architecture Critic Read the complete article in the Los Angeles Times…… Continue reading
See Iwan Baan’s stunning photos of BIG’s Via 57 West – Architects Newspaper
Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG)’s Via 57 West seems to have already assumed an iconic status on Manhattan’s west side. Look no further than the trailer for Marvel’s Doctor Strange which—in addition to having 15 million views—prominently features the rental development in its opening setting shot. Read the complete article in… Continue reading
Kibera Hamlets School, SelgasCano – Wall Street Journal
By FRED BERNSTEIN KIBERA, a district of Nairobi, Kenya, is one of the largest slums in Africa, thought to house up to a million people. But now a beacon of innovative architecture has appeared among its rusty metal roofs. Earlier this year, the dark, dilapidated home of the Kibera Hamlets School… Continue reading
DS+R’s New Columbia Med-School Building – New York Magazine
I know little of a medical student’s life, but I imagine it to be a time of sensual deprivation: skin sallowed by round-the-clock exposure to artificial light, eyesight sacrificed to 25-pound textbooks, the palate scoured by stale coffee. But the Columbia medical school’s new Vagelos Education Center, designed by Diller… Continue reading
Tippet Rise Art Center – Architectural Record
Balancing Act: On a majestic landscape in Montana, Ensamble Studio creates a group of enigmatic sculptural works for Tippet Rise Art Center. See the complete gallery in Architectural Record… Other news coverage: The Creators Project, August 5, 2016 Architectural Record, June 16, 2016… Continue reading
Iwan Baan’s first look inside the Manetti Shrem Art Museum by SO-IL and Bohlin Cywinski Jackson
The Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art is set to open in Davis, California on November 13, as construction is wrapping up. The building is a collaboration of associated architects SO-IL of New York, and the San Francisco office of Bohlin Cywinski Jackson. The museum has been… Continue reading
Kasungu Maternity Waiting Village
Against the backdrop of a brush-covered hilltop in central Malawi, women in brightly colored clothing gather to cook, chat, or simply rest amid a cluster of small buildings that rises from the sparsely vegetated landscape. Boston-based MASS Design Group’s latest project—a “maternity waiting village” near the Kasungu District Hospital—aims to… Continue reading
What to See First: Your GPS Guide to the Tate Modern – The New York Times
On Friday the world’s most popular modern art museum, the Tate Modern, opens a new 10-story wing designed by the Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron. Called the Switch House, the extension will show off contemporary work, including film, installation and live performance, and… Continue reading