Freecell’s proposal for a new public space and pavilion will be a playful contrast to Tadao Ando’s neighboring Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts. Brooklyn-based Freecell Architecture has snagged first place in an invited design-build competition to reimagine a disused lot across from the Tadao Ando–designed home of the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, St. Louis. The Pulitzer Foundation and the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis, cosponsors of the competition, aim to reinvigorate the downtown Grand Center cultural district with a place for public programming. The firm’s winning proposal for the site
The sluggish economy has stalled investment in new air, rail, and bus terminals. However, projects like California’s planned high-speed rail network could provide a much-needed boost to this sector. Click the image above to view a full presentation of these stats [PDF].
Image courtesy Storefront for Art and Architecture The curators of the United States's Pavilion at the 2014 Architecture Biennale in Venice call their project OfficeUS. The curators of the United States Pavilion at the 2014 Architecture Biennale in Venice have very ambitious plans: to transform an exhibition space into an architectural office. Announced last week, the State Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs selected the team of Ashley Schafer, Ana Miljački, and Eva Franch i Gilabert and their proposal to reinterpret the last 100 years of American building outside our borders in a project called OfficeUS. "We want to
Designed by Bernardo Bader Architects, the new cemetery serves the local Muslim community in industrialized western Austria, where the younger descendents of immigrants wanted a community burial place, rather than following the tradition of returning the dead to former homelands.
Screen Play, a proposal by Collective-LOK—a team comprised of Jon Lott, William O’Brien Jr., and Michael Kubo—experiments with transparent partitions to create a variety of interior spaces and to expand the storefront into the street. In time for its 120-year anniversary in 2014, the Van Alen Institute (VAI) is getting a facelift. Today, the New York City architecture and urbanism nonprofit revealed images of the three finalists in a competition to redesign its storefront. The winning proposal will replace the Institute's current LOT-EK-designed storefront on 22nd Street, which houses a combination bookstore and events area, with a larger space that
The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that the New York Public Library has revised its plans for a Norman Foster-designed, $300-million renovation of its flagship 5th Avenue building.
This evening, the Danish organization INDEX: Design to Improve Life revealed the five winners of its biennial award program at a ceremony in Elsinore. Under the patronage of Denmark's crown prince, the competition grants €500,000 in prize money to jumpstart creative, sustainable design projects that better everyday life. This year, an international jury selected 59 finalists, which included designs for a tumbleweed-like mine detector, a swimming pool in New York City’s East River, and an appliance for breeding (and eating) grasshoppers.Click the image below to view the five winners. Smart HighwayDutch artist and designer Daan Roosegaarde designed a high tech
Image courtesy KPF Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF) is transforming the exterior of the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles—one of many new cultural projects underway in the city. Los Angeles is about to get a spate of new cultural spaces, including one designed by Edwin Chan, who, after more than 25 years working with Frank Gehry (most recently as a design partner) left last year to start his own firm, EC3. One of Chan’s first post-Gehry projects is Chalet Hollywood, a kind of artists’ salon that is expected to open this fall and close after a year of operation. Unlike
Hunter's Point South Waterfront ParkQueens, New YorkThomas Balsley AssociatesWeiss/Manfredi The 30-acre swath of Queens known as Hunter's Point South, where the East River meets Newtown Creek, has shed its identity crisis. The property was once slated to become part of Queens West, a vast New York State–sponsored mixed-use development; later, it was the proposed site of the Morphosis-designed athletes’ village for the 2012 Olympics bid. Then in 2009, the city bought the parcel for $100 million and pledged to fill much of it with middle-income housing. Ground has now been broken for two large apartment buildings, designed by SHoP and
The Aluminaire House, shown here after a relocation to the Long Island campus of the New York Institute of Technology, was featured in the Museum of Modern Art’s 1932 Modern Architecture: International Exhibition.
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