February 19, 2013
Think museum architecture reached its apex with Frank Gehry’s Bilbao? Think again. The 21st century has so far seen such wonderful, weird buildings that are so dazzling you can forget to look at the art inside. From Farshid Moussavi’s reflective, geometric contemporary art museum in Cleveland to HOK + Beck Group’s surrealist Salvador Dali shrine, here are 10 of our favorites. Click through to see them all, and don’t forget to vote for our awesome finalists in the Museum Category at the Architizer A+ Awards!
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October 11, 2012
London-based architect Farshid Moussavi has completed her first U.S. commission, as well as her first museum, with the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Cleveland. The museum places a great importance on public programs and education (can anyone say Architizer A+ Award for Learning?) and required a space that would reflect that commitment within the community. Accordingly, the reflective, rhomboid structure was designed to inspire creativity and growth within Cleveland’s cultural landscape. Read more.
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July 20, 2010
News on the museum front: Herzog & de Meuron breaks ground on the Parrish Art Museum on Long Island, a more modestly-scaled version of the firm’s original proposal from 1996, while Foreign Office Architects nabs a commission for a $26.3 million contemporary art museum in Cleveland, Ohio. [via Building Design]
Chicago magazine has an in-depth profile piece on Harry Weese, the Chicago modernist architect best known for the 1976 Brutalist DC Metro system, as well as the Windy City’s own Time & Life Building and Field Museum. Weese, who designed over 1,000 buildings before dying an alcoholic in the 1980s, is suggested as one of the “preeminent figures in Postwar American architecture.” [via Chicago]
Now live: the second installment of the Newsweek/Sprint online initiative asking what our cities will look in the future. Gensler, Michael Maltzan Architecture, and City-Lab UCLA present their futuristic visions of Los Angeles. [via Newsweek]
Terreform ONE just announced the winners of its Reinventing the American Lawn competition, an initiative to encourage green space in urban areas. Two winners were whittled down from 30 semifinalists who proposed everything from vertical farms to abandoned infrastructure to river barges. [via One Prize]
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