Read our preview of the new PBS documentary and then cast your vote for the building that has most influenced life in the United States. One of the 10 Buildings that Changed America: H.H. Richardson’s Trinity Church in Boston. It’s easy to take the American architectural cannon for granted. These are the structures that loom large, turning points in architectural history that also have a fixed place in pop culture. But how often does the public stop to consider why these well-known monuments were once revolutionary or reflect on how they shaped American culture? In the new PBS program 10
“Untapped Capital” was the theme of this year’s Ideas City festival, the second iteration of a biennial series of urban-focused events organized by the New Museum in Manhattan.
As a new exhibition at New York's Center for Architecture explores the 26-acre development, RECORD spoke with Bill Pedersen, whose firm Kohn Pedersen Fox is responsible for its master plan. Design in the Heart of New York, an exhibition at the Center for Architecture in Manhattan, includes many new renderings of the Hudson Yards development.
Daniel Burnham's 1905 Wanamaker’s building reflected in the facade of Fumihiko Maki's new 51 Astor Place. The base of Gwathmey Siegel's 2005 Sculpture for Living is visible on the right. New York City is reaching a tipping point, architecturally. The city has the chance to go the way of London and Paris, where carefully chosen bits of contemporary architecture enliven an urban fabric that remains largely intact, or the way of Shanghai and Dubai, where relentless repetition of glass facades leads to a numbing sameness. Several recent developments suggest that New York, for all its attention to the built environment—and
Running through July 7 at SCI-Arc's downtown Los Angeles space, the show—part of the Getty-sponsored Pacific Standard Time series—highlights the pivotal role of the temporary gallery that Thom Mayne ran out of his home for a few weeks in the late 70s. Zago Architecture, the exhibition designers, wrapped the entry zone in skewed, blown-up reproductions of Morphosis' mock postage stamps – a clever riff on Graphic Wrap, one of the six spatial strategies the curators identified in the featured work, most notably Eric Owen Moss' Fun House. In the fall of 1979, Los Angeles’ first gallery for architecture came into
Image courtesy Davidson Rafailidis/Storefront for Art and Architecture MirrorMirror, reflective tents by Davidson Rafailidis, will be on view in front of the New Museum beginning May 4. New York’s answer to London Design Week, a festival called NYCxDesign (pronounced “NYC by Design”) will run from May 10 to 21, coinciding with and building on the Frieze New York art fair (May 10-13) and the International Contemporary Furniture Fair (May 18-21). The brainchild of city council president and New York City mayoral candidate Christine Quinn, NYCxDesign won’t be creating events so much as positioning them under the new umbrella. “In the
On May 9, Architectural Record and The Architectural League of New York will present a panel discussion about the latest innovations in the design of modular multi-unit housing. Time & PlaceThursday, May 9, 20137:00 p.m.McGraw Hill Auditorium1221 Avenue of the Americas, Second FloorNew York, NY 10020Purchase Tickets SpeakersThomas Gluck is Partner at GLUCK+, which is the architect, construction manager, and co-developer of The Stack, a 7-story residential building that uses modular, off-site construction to offer “an accelerated [building] schedule and shorter financing period, turning sites that might otherwise be considered risky [to develop]…into opportunities.”Mimi Hoang is Partner at nARCHITECTS, winner
While battles over the fate of Tod Williams Billie Tsien’s American Folk Art Museum and other public buildings make headlines, the architecture world also faces a much bigger, but far less visible, challenge: preserving private homes when families who have protected them—sometimes for four decades or more—decide to sell.
This story originally appeared on ENR.com. San Diego architect Graham T. Downes died on April 21 from injuries following a late-night fight two days before with an employee outside his San Diego home. He was 55. Downes suffered blunt force head and neck trauma, including numerous skull fractures, from the altercation with Higinio Soriano Salgado, according to the San Diego County coroner's report. Image courtesy Graham Downes Architecture Graham T. Downes Salgado was a development manager since 2008 with Blokhaus, a leasing and development firm affiliated with Graham Downes Architecture.Police found Downes unconscious in the street in front of his
New York set designer Christine Jones has turned heads with her evocative rendition of Las Vegas in the new Met Opera production of Rigoletto. George Gagnidze as Rigoletto and Vittorio Grigolo as the Duke of Mantua in the Metropolitan Opera's production of Rigoletto. The Metropolitan Opera’s new production of Verdi’s Rigoletto premiered this this winter to rave reviews—including its set design by Christine Jones, known for her Broadway shows Hands on a Hardbody and the Tony award-winning American Idiot. Rigoletto’s director Michael Mayer has placed the staging of the opera in 1960s Las Vegas, rather than late Renaissance Mantua as
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