UP Express Union Station in Toronto by Zeidler Partnership Architects. A rail link that can transport travelers directly from the airport to downtown is a simple concept, yet one that has never come to fruition in North America until now. On June 6, Toronto began service of its new Union Pearson Express, a train that connects Canada’s two busiest transportation hubs, Pearson International Airport and the downtown Union Station, every 15 minutes in fewer than 25 minutes. The new railway was, of course, in need of new stations, and the transit authorities at Toronto’s Metrolinx commissioned Canadian firm Zeidler Partnership
Tomorrowland's futuristic set was based on Santiago Calatrava’s City of Arts and Sciences in Valencia. Disney’s big non-superhero movie this summer, Tomorrowland, which opened in theaters Memorial Day weekend, is all about a mysterious place full of wonder and whiz-bang.
A view of Chicago's 606 park, set to open Saturday. Chicago’s 606, the nation’s second elevated rails-to-trails park, will open June 6, and its designers and client have taken pains to ensure that it’s a unique expression of the Second City, not just to be compared to New York’s High Line. In form, function, and funding, the 606’s evolution has taken a different path. “The High Line is a bridge with a garden on it,” said Matthew Urbanski, of Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, the project’s lead designers. “This is a landscape.”Located on the former route of the derelict Bloomingdale industrial
A diaphanous "stadium light" from the Pritzker Prize-winning firm redefines the soccer experience for fans in southwest France. Herzog & de Meuron's Nouveau Stade de Bordeaux. A new soccer stadium designed by Herzog & de Meuron in Bordeaux, France hosted its first game on May 23rd (the FC Girondins vs. Monpelier), a year before one of the sport’s most high-stakes tournaments—Euro 2016, the European Championship and qualifier for the 2017 World Cup—is played there. With 42,000 seats, the 830,000-square-foot stadium is one of the largest in the region, where soccer has a religious following. Drawing on the spiritual hold
The latest iteration of Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson’s traveling work “The Collectivity Project” has opened to the public at the High Line in Manhattan: an imaginary LEGO cityscape that viewers are free to alter as they wish.
On May 16, thousands of delegates of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) filed into a hall in the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta to vote on a series of 15 resolutions set forth for approval.
The billionaire chats with RECORD about his Thomas Heatherwick-designed island, disagreeing with Frank Gehry, and why he hates Jean Nouvel's 100 Eleventh Avenue.
No term of endearment: the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB) has decided to formally stop referring to non-licensed architects as “interns.” The title has been used to differentiate between architects who have completed all necessary licensing requirements to practice and those who haven’t. The moniker is understood to be unfavorable, NCARB says, and does not accurately reflect the work these designers contribute to their firms.Said the organization’s president Dale McKinney in a statement released at the American Institute of Architects convention May 14 in Atlanta: “[Intern] has become a term that has been perceived as negative by
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