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Museo del Acero Horno³

Grimshaw Architects turns a decaying blast furnace in Mexico into a muscular new steel museum, Museo del Acero Horno³.

Beth Broome

January 19, 2008

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You can tell a lot about a place by the kind of postcards offered for sale there.

Beth Broome

January 19, 2008

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Project Specs Museo del Acero Horno³ Monterrey, Mexico Grimshaw Architects << Return to article the People Architect Grimshaw 100 Reade Street New York, NY 10013 T 212 291 2501 F 212 791 2173 Partner in Charge: Vincent Chang Partner: Andrew Whalley Associate Principal: William Horgan Project Architect : Christian Hoenigschmid-Grossich Team: Michael Blancato, Shane Burger, Paulo de Faria, Kenny Grossman, Nieves Monasterio, Robert Stuart-Smith, Chung Yeon Won, Richard Yoo, Casimir Zdanius Associate architect(s) Oficina de Arquitectura, S.A. de C.V. Exhibition designer: Aldrich Pears Associates Specialist Structural Engineer: Werner Sobek New York Environmental Design: Atelier Ten Consultant(s) Landscape: Harari arquitectos +

Kolumba, Art Museum of the Archdiocese of Cologne, by Atelier Peter Zumthor

Cologne, Germany

Bettina Carrington

January 19, 2008

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Peter Zumthor fuses a historical palimpsest with Modernism at Kolumba, Art Museum of the Archdiocese of Cologne, lending the space a new kind of spiritual overtone

Refusing the Spotlight, Peter Zumthor Designs Quiet Buildings that Still Attract Devotees

Layla Dawson

January 19, 2008

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How does one explain the fascination with Peter Zumthor? It is not because of an architectural style.

Tempe Center for the Arts by Barton Myers Associates and Architekton

Tempe, Arizona

Joann Gonchar, FAIA

January 18, 2008

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Crimped and folded like the tectonic plates of the nearby Papago and Camelback Mountains, the roof that tops the Tempe Center for the Arts in Arizona provides the facility with its signature element.

New York Public Library - Mulberry Street Branch - Building Types Study

Rogers Marvel Architects inserts a grand stair into an old loft floor, allowing light to penetrate into two subterranean levels.

January 18, 2008

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During the 1970s, artists transformed light industrial buildings in New York City’s SoHo district into studios and residences.

Atlas Performing Arts Center

An abandoned movie house becomes a performing arts center and brings life back to its neighborhood.

January 17, 2008

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History, if left forgotten, can fall perilously to the wayside. Such was the fate of the Washington, D.C. landmark Atlas Theater Cinema until a foundation sought to transform the former 1930’s movie house and adjoining vacant storefronts into a new, state-of-the-art 58,000-square-foot performing arts facility.

Shunde Library by Warren and Mahoney Limited

Foshan, China

January 1, 2008

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A library in China adopts a minimalist design plan and embodies the ideals of the region.

Concordia International School, Shanghai, China, Perkins Eastman

Despite space and budget constraints, Concordia International School Shanghai embraces a community feeling.

James Murdock

January 1, 2008

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Only in China, perhaps, is it possible for a private academy serving grades pre-kindergarten through 12 to construct an innovative 64,600-square-foot elementary school and a richly appointed 24,000-square-foot performing arts center in 18 months and for a scant $15 million.

Betty H. Fairfax High School

Ted Smalley Bowen

January 1, 2008

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After-school activity at Betty H. Fairfax High School, located in Laveen Village on the southwest edge of Phoenix, includes the usual practice sessions and tutoring. But there’s also a good deal of hanging out.