Pat Finn
Plans for an iconic new civic center for the Darling Square district of Sydney have been announced b y Kengo Kuma, proposed in collaboration with development company Lendlease. The six-story, spiraling tower will contain a market hall on the ground floor in addition to a public library, a center for childcare and a rooftop bar. The…
BIG, the New York and Copenhagen-based architecture firm behind Google’s revamped Mountain View Head quarters, is rethinking the modern sports arena. Its conceptual plan to overhaul the Washington Redskins’ stadium would make the football team’s home a year-round destination, where sports are not the only attraction. “The stadium is designed as much for the tailgating, like…
FC Barcelona’s iconic Camp Nou stadium is set for a massive renovation. The Japanese architecture fi rm Nikken Sekkei was chosen to carry out the project, which will expand the seating capacity of the stadium to 105,000 and involves the addition of a 506,000-square-foot canopy to provide coverage to fans in inclement conditions. This renovation will…
The MetLife Building — formerly the Pan Am Building — is one of New York City’s most unassuming, yet unmistakable landmarks. Built in 1963 by a team that included Walter Gropius, this monumental glass tower looms behind Grand Central Terminal like a sentinel, a modernist masterpiece that, somehow, doesn’t clash with the Terminal’s ornate beaux-arts…
The mayor of Lyon recently unveiled plans for a massive renovation of Part-Dieu, an iconic shopping center located in the center of the French city. Rotterdam-based firm MVRDV will carry out the transformation, which involves the construction of a massive, elevated public garden and aims to seamlessly blend the shopping center with the urban fabric…
Hyperions, the latest conceptual proposal to come from the firm of ecological architect Vincent Call ebaut, is named after the tallest tree in the world, a sequoia in Northern California. The name is fitting, as the striking “garden towers” combine a sensitivity to the natural world with an architect’s eye for grandeur. The proposed site for…