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It’s official: The United States Olympic Committee has selected Boston for its bid for the Summer Ol ympics in 2024. In a hard-fought competition against Los Angeles, San Francisco and Washington D.C., Beantwon came out on top and will now begin its campaign to host the summer games in nine years’ time. The USA was the…
Although ubiquitous email is only two decades old and the iPhone launched a mere seven years ago, mo bile working has already rewritten the playbook of office design. In fact, the transformation is so complete that its signatures—unassigned seating, bench tables, floor plans favoring chance interactions—already seem like old hat. Do the 21st-century offices that dazzle…
Located in the resort town of Estes Park, Colorado, the Stanley Hotel’s claim to fame is that it ins pired Stephen King to write the “The Shining,” an icon of the horror story genre that is perhaps best known in Stanley Kubrick’s legendary 1980 film adaptation. To celebrate its current management’s 20th anniversary, the hotel has…
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…
The ability to 3D-print objects in exceptionally strong materials like Kevlar, fiberglass, and for t he first time, carbon fiber, means one thing: “No more Yoda heads,” according to MarkForged creative director Jeff Klein. MarkForged (stylized as MARKFORG3D) is the Boston-area startup behind the Mark One, a 3D printer that launched in its current form in…
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…
The history of the rugged landscape of Far West Texas is inscribed in its passageways. The largest c ity, El Paso, gets its name from the historic Spanish mission, El Paso del Norte. It was the point marking passage from South to North, while the Rio Grande River cuts up from there through the mountains, marking…