Beth Dunlop Photo courtesy Beth Dunlop Works by Cosima von Bonin and Allora & Calzadilla from the de la Cruz Collection/Photo courtesy of the de la Cruz Collection (top). The Fratelli Lyon Restaurant in the 4141 Design showroom / Photo courtesy Fratelli Lyon (middle). Outdoor seating at the Mandolin Agean Bistro / Photo courtesy Mandolin Agean Bistro (bottom). Beth Dunlop is the contributing architecture critic at The Miami Herald and was editor-in-chief at their HOME Miami magazine and HOME Fort Lauderdale. She has also written several books about architecture in Florida. Best New Architecture Miami Design District “Until recently, I
Chad Oppenheim Photo courtesy Oppenheim architecture + design The water courtyard at the Setai / Photo courtesy Setai Hotel and Resort (top), Tomas Maier in the Design District / Photo courtesy Tomas Maier. Chad Oppenheim, AIA, received a bachelor of architecture from Cornell University in 1994, and founded Miami-based Oppenheim architecture + design in 1999. Oppenheim is known for his luxury condominium and hospitality designs. He also serves as an adjunct professor of architecture at Florida International University and lectures globally. Best Historic Architecture Palm Bay Yacht Club “Super swank condo constructed over the water in 1972 by Connie Dinkler
Houses by three Modernist masters ' Breuer, Neutra, and Schindler ' present different challenges to new architects. New work on an old house necessarily follows the original text. An archaeological site, original doorknobs and windows, floorboards and foundations become artifacts, embodying history. Every building, made up of thousands of parts, demands thousands of decisions. Whose decisions were they originally? Which ones are worth keeping? When an existing house — in this case, by the notable Modernists Marcel Breuer, Richard Neutra, and Rudolph Schindler — speaks louder than its new designers can, each step forward encounters a host of potential problems.
Houses by three Modernist masters ' Breuer, Neutra, and Schindler ' present different challenges to new architects. Neutra by the sea Rudolph Schindler and Richard Neutra were “Southern California’s favorite architectural couple,” writes historian Barbara Mac Lamprecht, “Schindler playing id to Neutra’s superego; Neutra’s Apollo to Schindler’s Dionysus; the former the verbose go-getter, the latter an articulate hippie.” Two houses recently renovated in California — the 1934 Sten-Frenke House in Santa Monica by Neutra, and a 1940 spec house in Inglewood by Schindler — both seem inexorably to follow the legacy, or the idea of the legacy, of their separate
Houses by three Modernist masters ' Breuer, Neutra, and Schindler ' present different challenges to new architects. Schindler in the suburbs The story surrounding a 1940 spec house in Inglewood by Rudolph Schindler is less tortuous than that of the Sten-Frenke. To begin with, the circumstances of its construction are basically unknown. The architect built three houses on a typical block in a middle-class section of the town, each with a different layout, reacting to the changing slope of the land. All are modestly sized at about 1,000 square feet, which includes two bedrooms, a kitchen, and a large common
The Morgan Library & Museum, New York City A small, elegant exhibition on view at the Morgan Library and Museum in New York, Palladio and His Legacy: A Transatlantic Journey, has been attracting numerous visitors since it opened April 2, 2010. Organized by the Royal Institute of British Architects (the RIBA) Trust, in London, in association with the Centro Internazionale di Studi di Architettura (CISA) Andrea Palladio in Vicenza, and the Morgan, the exhibition includes thirty-one infrequently seen drawings by Andrea Palladio (1508-1580) from the collections of the RIBA Trust. Supplementing the drawings are the RIBA’s rare books by Palladio,
Team uses collaboration and digital tools to produce architect's most expansive draped facade A 70-story, folded, creased and curved stainless-steel curtain wall on an 867-ft-tall apartment building has been called “Gehry only on the outside,” as if the building is a fake Frank. It’s true that, when it opens next year, New York City’s tallest residential tower won’t be an internationally acclaimed cultural icon, as is the architect’s now-12-year-old Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in Spain. The 76-story high-rise is not as colorful, whimsical and structurally innovative as the nearly decade-old Experience Music Project rock ’n’ roll museum in Seattle. The new
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