Magazine

John Hill | 06.05.2015

Headlines

The Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum has announced the winners of the 2015 National Design Awards, including a posthumous lifetime achievement award to Michael Graves.


John Hill | 06.05.2015

Film

The new Fondazione Prade complex designed by OMA - Office of Metropolitan Architecture opens to the public on Saturday. Filmmakers Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine have documented the project's construction in SPIRITI, a collection of 14 video fragments.


archimania | 05.05.2015

Works

The first black repertory theatre in Memphis relocated from their start-up space to an existing parking lot in an urban entertainment district currently undergoing a resurgence.


Ingarden & Ewý Architects + Arata Isozaki & Associates | 05.05.2015

Works

The modern, world-class venue dedicated to cultural events – music, ballet and theatre performances as well as congresses – comprises three main halls with 1915, 600, and 300 seats, and a multifunctional conference area with a floor space of 550 sq.m.


Annabel Karim Kassar Architects | 04.05.2015

Works

Annabel Karim Kassar Architects shows in the Cortile 700 of the Università Statale in Milan an architectural installation Camera Chiara with two pavilions: Liwan and Camera Obscura.


Cuarto Orden | 04.05.2015

Works

The independent book fair Libros Mutantes took place recently at La Casa Encendida in Madrid, a cultural event that brings together publishers from Spain and abroad, gathering important guests such as Études Books, III Studio, or Stefan Marx.


John Hill | 04.05.2015

Products

China's presence at the recently opened Expo Milano 2015 is threefold, with a national pavilion, the China Corporate United Pavilion, and the Vanke Pavilion. The last, designed by Daniel Libeskind, is covered in ruby red ceramic tiles developed with Casalgrande Padana.


04.05.2015

Building of the Week

The flowing, perforated facade is the first thing that attracts attention in this expansion to the Central World Shopping Center in Bangkok. But a glance beyond the facade reveals flowing internal spaces – indoor and outdoor – that give cohesion to the project and some legitimacy...


John Hill | 01.05.2015

Found

Even with rainy skies and protests in the streets, the long-awaited and much-criticized Expo Milano 2015 opened this first day of May.


John Hill | 01.05.2015

Headlines

The "Tin House," which Frank Gehry designed for artist Ron Davis in the late 1960s and has been owned by actor Patrick Dempsey since 2009, has hit the market with an asking price of $14.5 million.


01.05.2015

Building of the Week

Designed by Akio Nakasa of naf architect & design, Arch Wall House makes use of the curved walls that are a common theme in much of the firm’s work. Here, an arch both separates and links two homes: a single-story residence for a woman living alone, and a two-story residence for a...


John Hill | 30.04.2015

Film

Bjarke Ingels, one of the speaker's in this week's Bloomberg Businessweek Design 2015, explains the "courtscraper" rising on Manhattan's West Side.


Calderon Folch Sarsanedas Arquitectes | 30.04.2015

Works

Fully integrated into its surroundings, the Center is a social and cultural catalyst which enhances a natural space by the landscape recovering of Begues Stream and of a downy oak which names the Center.


John Hill | 29.04.2015

Found

Yesterday, MIT dedicated a new memorial to Sean Collier, a campus police officer killed in the line of duty in April 2013.


John Hill | 29.04.2015

Film

Superflux, a collaborative design practice based in London, has crafted a six-minute film that expresses their ongoing investigations into "the social, political and cultural potential of drone technology as it enters civil space."


STGM Architects | 29.04.2015

Works

STGM’s new head office is located in the Beauport borough of Quebec City, adjacent to the Estimauville eco-neighborhood. It is a 1,000-square-meter, two-story structure that puts the focus on eco-friendly architectural innovation.


John Hill | 29.04.2015

Headlines

The team of Rogers Partners Architects+Urban Designers, ASD, and Ken Smith Landscape Architect has been selected for the redesigned St. Petersburg Pier in Florida.


John Hill | 28.04.2015

Headlines

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) and its Committee on the Environment (COTE) have selected the "top ten examples of sustainable architecture and ecological design projects that protect and enhance the environment."


John Hill | 28.04.2015

Headlines

According to the Wall Street Journal, Norman Foster's design of 2 World Trade Center "could be dramatically altered under a proposal being discussed by 21st Century Fox Inc. and News Corp," which would bring in architect Bjarke Ingels.


28.04.2015

Building of the Week

The use of hot springs for wellbeing and medical care is an age-old practise in China. The new Ruff Well Water Resort designed by Shanghai-based architects AIM is an outstanding example of how that practise is reflected in contemporary society, particularly in new facilities for the urban...


Mark Koehler Architects | 28.04.2015

Works

The Dune House, half-sunk into the dunes on the northern coast of the island of Terschelling, rises over the landscape and looks over the dunes providing a breath-taking view of the North Sea.


John Hill | 27.04.2015

Insight

The State of the Art in Architecture is the theme of the inaugural Chicago Architecture Biennial, which gets underway in just over five months. To get a sense of the state of architecture in the city, we take a look at 15 buildings from the last 15 years.


Mecanoo | 27.04.2015

Works

Designed by Dutch practice Mecanoo, together with US based firm Sasaki Associates, the Bruce C. Bolling Municipal Building in Boston houses the Boston Public Schools (BPS) department and plays a central role in the reactivation of Roxbury’s Dudley square.


John Hill | 27.04.2015

Headlines

Five months after the jury for the Guggenheim Helsinki Design Competition selected six finalists from the initial 1,715 submissions, the finalists have developed their concept designs based on site visits and additional briefing.


26.04.2015

Building of the Week

Parking garages are a necessary evil in cities, particularly in an auto-centric metropolis like Los Angeles. Yet while most garages are bland additions to cityscapes, they can also be canvases for creative expression, as in the case of this colorful structure designed by Behnisch Architekten...


John Hill | 24.04.2015

Found

On 1 May 2015 the new home of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, designed by the Renzo Piano Building Workshop in collaboration with Cooper Robertson, opens its doors to the public right next to the southern tip of the High Line.


JGMA | 24.04.2015

Works

The NEIU El Centro project is the first component in a satellite campus master plan envisioned by NEIU to provide educational, career and cultural opportunities primarily, though not exclusively, to the Latino community in Chicago.


John Hill | 23.04.2015

Headlines

GRAFT's design for the Old Mill Hotel in Belgrade, Serbia, has won First Prize in the "Renovation" category of the 8th Annual International Design Awards.


Pedra Silva Architects | 23.04.2015

Works

What if...we made magic in Sydney? On one of Sydney’s high-end retail streets we were invited to design a high-level state of the art dental clinic.


HENN | 23.04.2015

Works

In the new design building of the Porsche AG, functional areas that have to work together intensively in the early phase of product development are combined.


John Hill | 22.04.2015

Film

When it opens next month, visitors to the observatory of One World Trade Center will be treated to a time-lapse video of Lower Manhattan's evolution lining the elevator walls as they ascend 102 floors.


John Hill | 22.04.2015

Headlines

The Australian Institute of Architects’ Venice Biennale Committee has selected the team of Aileen Sage and Michelle Tabet as creative directors of the Australian Exhibition at the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale with their proposal "The Pool."


LATITUDE | 22.04.2015

Works

The New Building of the World Health Organization (WHO) will replace a number of temporary buildings at the Headquarters site in Genève. The New Building will be one of three buildings that comprise the WHO Headquarters.


Hatem+D | 21.04.2015

Works

The project consisted in the renovation of a bungalow in Québec City, Canada. The owners wished to adapt their residence to their new lifestyle and the building needed a face-lift.


John Hill | 21.04.2015

Headlines

Three winners of the 4th Global Holcim Awards for Sustainable Construction have been selected with projects on public space, social integration, and resilient infrastructure in Colombia, Sri Lanka, and the USA, respectively.


WSDIA | 21.04.2015

Works

Nike North America Brand Design (NABD) approached WSDIA to complete environmental rollouts at both Moynihan Station and Nike’s downtown New York flagship store, 21 Mercer, for the release of their Tech Pack product series.