Well-known U.S.-based architects have taken issue with the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), Britain’s leading architectural association, for its political stand against its Israeli counterpart. According to the Architects’ Journal, Daniel Libeskind, Richard Meier, and Rick Bell, the executive director of AIA New York, have spoken out against the RIBA’s decision to seek the suspension of the Israeli association from the International Union of Architects (UIA) “until it acts to resist projects on illegally-occupied land and observes international law and accords.” The motion was presented to the RIBA council on March 19 by the association’s past president, Angela Brady.
Fifty years ago this month, an architectural wonderland opened in Queens, New York—the 1964-65 World’s Fair that Robert Moses created to bring millions of visitors to Flushing Meadows and raise money to build a permanent park there.
Image courtesy Svigals + Partners Svigals + Partners' proposed scheme for a new elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut. Dubbed "Main Street," this design is "like two arms embracing the children as they come in," says Barry Svigals. It’s one thing for an architect to design a new school, quite another when that school is on the site of one of the worst mass shootings in U.S. history. On December 14, 2012, 20-year-old Adam Lanza killed 20 children and six staff members at Sandy Hook Elementary School, in Newtown, Connecticut. The school has since been razed. In September, the town’s Public
With several large projects about to open and others in the pipeline—such as housing at London's Battersea Power Station site—Frank Gehry has his hands full. Frank Gehry and Foster + Partners unveiled their designs for residential buildings that will be part of London’s redeveloped Battersea Power Station site. Gehry's buildings are in the foreground. If you’re wondering when architects will get the respect they deserve, the answer may be: never. By some measures, Frank Gehry, 85, is having a good year, with several large projects about to open and others in the pipeline. But nothing comes easy. After 10 years
Fort Totten Square in Washington, D.C., designed by Hickok Cole Architects, is a sharp departure from the retailer’s usual formula. Hickok Cole Architects designed 345 residential units atop a 125,000-square-foot Walmart in the Fort Totten neighborhood of Washington, D.C. If you heard that urban redevelopment in some Washington, D.C., neighborhoods was being spurred by Walmart, you might think it was a joke: Walmart, with its leviathan stores in the outer reaches of sprawl? But in a bid to crack urban markets, Walmart is piloting new, smaller store designs on infill sites, which sometimes integrate other uses and often connect with
Kim Gordon's site-specific installation, Coming Soon, is on view at Rudolf Schindler’s Fitzpatrick-Leland House in Los Angeles. When two art forms meet, there is always a negotiation. Artist and musician Kim Gordon, best known as a founding member of the rock band Sonic Youth, wrestles with this in her latest site-specific installation, Coming Soon, on view at Rudolf Schindler’s Fitzpatrick-Leland House in Los Angeles until April 26. “It was a constant competition between architecture and art,” says Aaron Moulton, the show’s curator and director of programming for Gagosian Los Angeles, who adds that exhibiting Gordon’s work in the 1936 spec
Students and alumni from Savannah College of Art and Design have designed the SCADpad, a 135-square-foot micro dwelling that can take up residency in under-used parking facilities. Designers claimed eight parking spots to create the three micro dwellings, with amenities such as a raised, edible garden. America’s population surges have historically produced new housing types: balloon-frame houses helped settle the Midwest; garden apartments posed a healthier alternative to burgeoning tenements; Levittown emblematized the Baby Boom. If 70 million millennials represent the largest youthquake to date, then what new residential paradigm will appear for it? Gen Y-ers affiliated with the Savannah
The recent rise in mortgage rates could dampen this year's housing recovery. However, employment growth and the U.S. economy's overall improvement should sustain the market's upward momentum. Click the image above to view a full presentation of these stats [PDF].
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