Paul Gunther
Tomorrow, on April 16, after surviving the 10 plagues of delay — from hurricanes to the storms of lo cal politics — ground will be broken for the New York Wheel at the St. George tip of northern Staten Island. Opening is slated for summer 2017. Designed at a world record-setting 630 feet, the Wheel will…
A new name, an eponymous new typeface by Chester Jenkins of Pentagram, and a landmark headquarters r enovated and reimagined by a complex array of design professionals signaled last December’s long-awaited $91 million reopening of America’s official museum of global design excellence, The Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. The design team included Gluckman Mayner, Beyer Blinder…
The ingenious philanthropic model of the public/private partnership has long sustained America’s cul tural and civic assets, relied upon by museums, historic places, parks, hospitals, and libraries for design, building, and ongoing program operations. The model constitutes the core of the nation’s uniquely market-reliant nonprofit sector — it is the bedrock of civic goodwill and public…
America’s most famous architect of the late-20th century (extending as it has into the 21st) is Fran k Gehry; after all, stylistic eras rarely coincide exactly with the calendar’s measure of time. Now, one of his most audacious and long-awaited works, the fondation that opened to the public less than three months ago, finds itself in…