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As the New York City Planning Commission debates Madison Square Garden's future above Penn Station, a Municipal Art Society competition calls for designs to re-envision both. Photo © Flickr user freddan212 A view from 8th Avenue of Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Santiago Calatrava, SHoP Architects, and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill—four busy firms—will have to find time during the next six weeks to brainstorm. The Municipal Art Society (MAS) has given them until May 29 to develop ideas for moving Madison Square Garden from its present site, directly above New York’s Pennsylvania Station. Transferring the Garden would

Sizing up the firm's new collection for Knoll at the Milan furniture fair. The Tools for Life collection is on view during the 2013 Salone del Mobile at Prada’s Milan exhibition space at via Fogazzaro, 36. One of the interesting aspects of the Milan furniture fair in the last couple of years is the way in which a particular group of journalists and critics has set the agenda before the fair has even begun. In 2011, there was a concerted move to raise awareness of the way designers are not always fairly treated by the design industry (this is a

Two Harvard design students are rallying to correct a conspicuous omission from the list of Pritzker Prize winners.

An art biennial in the United Arab Emirates inaugurates a set of new exhibition spaces and presents work by OFFICE, SANAA, Buro Ole Scheeren, and Studio Mumbai. The 11th Sharjah Biennial sprawls through more than a dozen venues in and around the emirate’s Heritage Area on the eastern bank of Sharjah Creek. (The Persian Gulf is visible in the background.) The art world loves a spectacle and rewards provocateurs. Sharjah bans the sale of alcohol, enforces strict blasphemy laws, and has a reputation as the most conservative of the United Arab Emirates. They make an unlikely couple, but the opening

Designed by EHDD, the 330,000-square-foot waterfront campus is targeting net zero energy. A view from the water of the Exploratorium at Pier 15. When the Exploratorium, San Francisco’s celebrated science museum, opens in its new location on a pair of renovated piers April 17, the knowledge seekers and tinkerers of the world will be reunited with beloved displays like the gravity-powered calculator and the tornado machine. Visitors will also discover new exhibits, such as a pedestrian bridge that is constantly enveloped in fog and a ceiling aperture that transforms the site’s new glassed-in observatory gallery into an architectural sundial. But

An art biennial in the United Arab Emirates inaugurates a set of new exhibition spaces and presents work by OFFICE, SANAA, Buro Ole Scheeren, and Studio Mumbai. The 11th Sharjah Biennial sprawls through more than a dozen venues in and around the emirate’s Heritage Area on the eastern bank of Sharjah Creek. (The Persian Gulf is visible in the background.) The art world loves a spectacle and rewards provocateurs. Sharjah bans the sale of alcohol, enforces strict blasphemy laws, and has a reputation as the most conservative of the United Arab Emirates. They make an unlikely couple, but the opening

Opened on April 4, Coach’s Omotesando Flagship shop is the latest addition to the stunning array of designer boutiques lining one of Tokyo’s most elegant shopping streets. Occupying a prime, corner site at the base of the new commercial complex Oak Omotesando, the shop interior was created by Coach’s in-house design team. But its standout visual features—an elegant, transparent façade and an internal stair tower—were designed by OMA New York. Composed of glass boxes arranged in a bold, herringbone pattern, the entire exterior surface doubles as display, enabling not just the brand, but also individual bags and boots, to have

Designed by Toronto-based Diamond Schmitt Architects, the new 851,575-square-foot, seven-story Mariisnky II Theater expands the institution's campus in the historic heart of St. Petersburg.