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Just seven months after a fire that destroyed part of Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s eponymous bu ilding the Glasgow School of Art has announced the shortlist of five firms selected to lead the restoration of the masterpiece built between 1897 and 1909 by the Scottish architect. Via The Daily Mail The prestigious list includes Avanti Architects, John…
Installations often walk a fine line between art and architecture, if not simply because of their sc ale. The rooms at MoMA/PS1 in Long Island City, Queens, do an especially good job of facilitating this odd scalar disposition, perhaps because of the building’s own history as a school and then an art gallery. The variety of…
Last month, under Foster + Partners’ tessellated canopy at the National Portrait Gallery in Washingt on, Elizabeth Chu Richter, FAIA, was inaugurated as the 91st President of the AIA. A Chinese-born architect from Corpus Christi, Texas, Chu’s contributions include an award-winning public radio series, “The Shape of Texas,” in addition to her role as CEO of…
Shiro Kuramata made some of the most intriguing Post-modern furniture designs, with a narrative and visual clarity that defines the era even as it transcends the mid-century moment. His work questions the rigidity of Modernism without falling into direct uncontrolled kitsch. A exhibition at Wright Auction House in New York titled Shiro Kuramata and Hiroshi…
Come May of this year, the largest and most iconic billboard in New York City’s Times Square will ta ke a break from advertising soda and fast-fashion brands in order to promote great architecture! That’s right — a giant billboard at the “crossroads of the world” will be dedicated to celebrating the 2015 Architizer A+Award winners.…
It is no coincidence that the world's earliest surviving camera photograph captured building roofs a s seen from Joseph Nicéphore Niépce's window at Le Gras in 1822. This rudimentary photographic technique required a static subject whose anatomy could be distilled into a few essential gestures.
As in the past several years, 2014 saw activists take to the streets in major protests around the wo rld. Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement demanded open elections without new regulation by China, while Ferguson became the center of racially-charged demonstrations against police brutality. From New York to Venezuela to Palestine and Turkey, uprisings addressed serious issues.…
Let the record show that December 2014 may well mark a turning point for Norwegian architects Snøhet ta. They have received good news at all stages of the design process, spread across three sizable projects around the world. Vaven. Image courtesy Snohetta The most talented Scandinavian firm going right now, Snøhetta has been working backwards a…
With the extension of the Architizer A+Awards deadline to Friday, January 30th, we are thrilled to a nnounce that Architizer has partnered with Phaidon — the premier global publisher of the creative arts with over 1,500 titles in print — to publish an annual compendium of the A+Award winners! The A+Awards program was developed to break architecture out of its insular echo chamber, and Phaidon could not be a better partner in achieving this goal!