Photo courtesy Architecture for Dogs Shigeru Ban's papillion perch. Click here to view more images: Bow-Wow Haus With Design Miami now held in Miami Beach, Craig Robins, the founder of the annual design fair, has had to work harder to keep crowds coming to the Design District across the water in Miami. Largely owned by Robins’ company, the District is preparing to welcome dozens of fashion retailers, some to new buildings—including at least one being designed by Leong Leong. But during Basel week, the attractions include installations by designer Luis Pons, a mural by the graffiti artist Retna on the
RECORD speaks with exhibition curator Mike Tunkey, founder of Cannon Design's Shanghai office, about UnMade in China. AQSO - Xubeihong Memorial Hall - Beijing, China Sometimes, the biggest architecture firms are also the most courageous. Take Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, with its gutsy SOM Journal (an annual publication in which outside critics evaluate the firm’s designs). Or Perkins + Will, with its revolutionary database of hazardous materials, which can’t help but alienate some manufacturers. And now Cannon Design has curated an exhibition, UnMade In China, about projects for Chinese clients that were never built. The show’s progenitor is Mike Tunkey,
United States Artists, the national grant-making and advocacy organization, awarded unrestricted grants of $50,000 to 50 artists this year. Jujuy Redux, an apartment building in Rosario, Argentina (2012), designed by Marcelo Spina and Georgina Huljich of the Los Angeles firm P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S. United States Artists (USA), the national grant-making and advocacy organization, announced today the 50 recipients of unrestricted grants of $50,000 each. In the Architecture and Design category, the award recipients are: Marcelo Spina and Georgina Huljich founded their architecture firm, P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S, in Los Angeles in 1999. They recently completed a ten-story apartment building in Rosario, Argentina, and a mix-use
Forest City Ratner Companies (FCRC), developer of the $4.9 billion Atlantic Yards project in Brooklyn, New York, has officially announced today that the mixed-use complex’s first residential building—a 22-story, 350-unit, metal-and-glass-clad tower designed by SHoP Architects—will be built with modular methods. The developer has estimated that the modular structure, which will have a series of setbacks and cantilevers, will cost about 20 percent less than a nearly identical conventionally constructed tower. FCRC will partner with construction and development group, Skanska USA, to create FC + Skanska Modular. The new company will rely on union labor to assemble the components in
A new monograph from Yale University Press pays tribute to the master photographer who raised the profile of modern architecture. Click the image below to view a selection of photographs from the book. Hirshhorn MuseumSkidmore Owings & MerrillWashington, DC1974
Image courtey HDR and Corgan Associates Construction is under way on Parkland Hospital, a 2.1 million-square-foot project in Dallas by HDR and Corgan Associates. It has been hailed for increasing coverage, streamlining the delivery of care, and lowering costs. But the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, the federal health insurance law that has generated controversy since its 2010 passage, has also led to the layoffs of dozens of architects at two firms, HDR and Jain Malkin, according to staff. This past summer and fall, HDR, an Omaha-based global architecture and engineering practice with a large healthcare portfolio,
Yale University Press recently released the first monograph dedicated to Maynard Parker. It shows the photographer constructing a sunny ideal of postwar domesticity with images that captured Modern Americans at home. Click the image below to view a selection of photographs from the book. The living room in the in Flintridge, California, home that architect George Turner designed for himself, c. 1947
When Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans in 2005, New Yorkers watched in horror as residents climbed onto rooftops, stranded, or fled to shelters that provided precious little shelter.
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