Inside Orhan Pamuk's Museum of Innocence. Pinned and labeled like butterflies in a wall-mounted shadow box, 4,213 cigarette butts welcome visitors to the Museum of Innocence, writer Orhan Pamuk's present-day Wunderkammer in Istanbul. The stubbed-out specimens were smoked by a woman named Füsun, the wall text tells us. And like the other objects in the museum, they were collected by her former lover, Kemal. Rejected by her, a heartsick and obsessive Kemal began pilfering everyday objects connected to Füsun, amassing this beautifully melancholy collection. Painted an aching blood red, the Museum of Innocence stands out in its gentrified but still
“How many works does an architect need to build to be valid? One,” said Steven Holl recently, referring to the late Lebbeus Woods's only permanent structure, Light Pavilion, which is embedded in (and juts out from) one of five towers that make up Holl's Sliced Porosity Block in Chengdu, China.
Ezra Stoller, Photographer, by Nina Rappaport and Erica Stoller. Introduction by Andy Grundberg; contributions by Akiko Busch and John Morris Dixon. Yale University Press, 2012, 288 pages, $65. Balthazar Korab, Architect of Photography, by John Comazzi. Princeton Architectural Press, 2012, 192 pages, $40. Click the image above to see more photographs from the book. Click the image above to see more photographs from the book. Photography not only helped to define Modern architecture, it also created its celebrities. It is difficult to imagine mid-20th-century American design without recollecting Ezra Stoller's iconic image of SOM's Lever House or Balthazar Korab's shots
January 2013 Daniel Libeskind adds to his Jewish Museum Berlin. Something about Berlin brings out the best in Daniel Libeskind. It is here that he had his greatest triumph with the opening, in 2001, of the Jewish Museum Berlin, a building with cuts and slashes that make brutality palpable. On the audio tour, Libeskind says that some people will be nauseated by the museum's angles. But that's OK. If his way of talking about the symbolism of his buildings can seem overwrought (he is happy to offer almost any meaning until he finds one that sticks), in Berlin the architecture
Hailing from Europe, North America, and Asia, this year’s roster of emerging firms represent diverse backgrounds and attitudes toward design and the profession.
Cities forge ahead with plans for new professional sports venues, despite their high cost and the tepid pace of development. Image courtesy Sasaki In Cincinnati, the first phase of a waterfront park recently opened. When the second phase is completed, a 45-acre swath of green will link the Paul Brown Stadium and the Great American Ball Park. Related Articles: Santa Clara Stadium Barclays Center Olympic Stadium BBVA Compass Stadium The view of Cincinnati's skyline from the Kentucky side of the Ohio River reveals the alluring, if complicated, relationship of sports facilities and cities. On the western edge of downtown, the
Rungrado May First Stadium, Pyongyang, North Korea; 150,000 capacity (seating and standing room combined). Related Articles:Economic Engines? Santa Clara Stadium Barclays Center Olympic Stadium BBVA Compass Stadium Sports facilities range from Olympic and World Cup venues, professional team stadiums, to high school and college facilities. Professional sports team owners often push the envelope in their quest to build excitement for and attendance at their events. Some major residential and resort developers also build record-breaking recreational facilities as drawing cards. The sports construction market sector has suffered along with the overall market downturn in recent years. According to McGraw-Hill Construction Research
It is about 450 miles from Quang Binh province in the middle of Vietnam to Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC), the noisy, frenetic commercial capital in the south.
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