A surprise list of 10 ugly New York City buildings has us wondering: why is the attractive, bright metal New York Times headquarters across from Port Authority at the top of the list? Who actually made this list, the AIA or the NY Daily News?
In this case, one could argue that “ugly” is an insult meant [...]
Some devastating news to share this morning: friend and Architizer ally Stephen Kanner of Kanner Architects — also founder of the A+D Museum in Los Angeles — died on Friday after a quick battle with pancreatic cancer. He was only 54. Frances Anderton has written a moving tribute here. [via A/N Blog]
Even the New York Daily [...]
“Andreweland” is the big winner of the Tablet Talk/Architizer photo contest with a wide margin. His photo of Santiago Calatrava’s L’hemisferic in Valencia, Spain took the top prize (two nights in London and two nights in Berlin). 5000 votes were cast, while “andreweland” won by about 600 votes. Congrats to the winner and to all [...]
Guardian critic Jonathan Glancey rounds up ten fantastic finds during the London Festival of Architecture, including a Japanese teahouse on stilts at the V&A Museum and dog-friendly architecture sites. (One he forgot? The C-BIP conference and Architizer launch party at the Design Museum on June 30!) [via Guardian UK]
Accompanying Nicolai Ouroussoff’s screed on the new [...]
Architectural photographer Bruno Cals shoots some of the world’s most drooled-over buildings. This isn’t your typical archi-porn, however, as the concept which unifies his “Horizons” series is based on angles, or rather, the distorted perspective of looking up a building’s facade to capture a misleading horizon line.
Chelsea’s 1500 Gallery, the only art space in the [...]
SO-IL, one of the AIA New Practices nominees this year, is busy installing its piece for P.S.1’s Young Architecture pavilion. It’s called Pole Dance and involves giant nets suspended on poles, a dynamic structure meant to be swayed by human interaction. [via A/N Blog]
Everyone’s abuzz over Renzo Piano’s addition to the Kimbell Museum in Fort [...]
That was fast: after announcing a six-firm shortlist for his eponymous art museum in LA, philanthropist and financier Eli Broad has narrowed the commission contest down to two: Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Rem Koolhaas of OMA. [via Arch Daily]
The Whitney Museum’s chairman of the board reversed his opinion and voted for relocating to the Meatpacking District. [...]
Las Vegas’s architecture dog-and-pony show City Center posted an operating loss of $255 billion for Q1 of 2010. One of the owners, MGM Mirage, is also “locked” in a $500 million financial dispute with the contractor. That’s gotta sting. [via Wall Street Journal]
Ouroussoff throws down: the New York Times architecture critic pans the Lincoln Center [...]
For a few weeks, we have seen the artwork of an artist on our Facebook wall. Edgartista, or Edgar Gonzalez, is a Guatemalan transplant who now lives in New York.
His designs can best be described as black and white amalgams of famous architectural landmarks. His recent series, ‘12 Masters of Architecture,’ takes a famous architect [...]
January is so over. Time flies when you have a bevy of architecture news to keep you busy.
DESIGN OBSERVER:
Meredith Davis has written a compelling article about who owns the rights to student work – the student or the institution in which is was created. Let us know what you think in the comments.
NEW YORK TIMES:
Nicolai [...]
