Raymond Hu
Anssi Lassila has been a busy man, of late. The Finnish architect has scarcely had a chance to enjoy the all-too-short Finnish summer — the weather finally turned at the beginning of the month — as the long days can also mean longer hours in the office. As the chair of the most recent Alvar…
Although the traditional white box endures as the ideal space for exhibiting and viewing art, we als o expect museums to offer an aesthetic experience in and of themselves. The challenge, then, is to strike a balance between the form and the content, and it is Japan’s current crop of top architects who have mastered this…
OMA’s latest project is a protective case of sorts, like a super-sized version of something you migh t buy at, say, Muji to store documents or doodads. In the case of the Garage Museum in Moscow — open as of last week — the precious contents are works of contemporary art. Founded in 2008 by collector…
Approaching from Gansevoort Street, one can’t help but anticipate the views from the stepped t erraces of the new Whitney Museum of American Art as its glazed-ziggurat aspect becomes a legible homage to the museum’s previous home, 3.3 miles to the northeast (as the crow flies), but a world away otherwise. If the iconic Breuer façade…