Herzog & de Meuron recently unveiled their concept for a new art museum, the Pritzker-winning firm’s first project in Canada, to provide a home for the expanding Vancouver Art Gallery.
The organizers of the first Dubai Design Week chose as its opening night speaker an architect who has never built in Dubai, despite having proposed several projects there.
Announced at the World Architecture Festival, the shortlisted photographs will be exhibited in London early next year. Topping a global pool of entries, Fernando Guerra’s image of EPFL’s Quartier Nord in Eclubens, Switzerland won Arcaid Images’ 2015 Architectural Photography Award.
As order finally returns to the Egyptian capital, will gentrification set in? The built and open spaces surrounding Tahrir Square—the public plaza and staging ground of political demonstrations during the 2011 Egyptian revolution—have undergone a transformation this year: Beaux-arts facades received a fresh coat of paint, a 1,700-space underground parking garage was finally completed, and the square was topped off with a 65-foot-tall flagpole. An International Style hotel known as the Nile Hilton has been reborn as a new Ritz Carlton, and the Stalinist structure which housed former president Hosni Mubarak’s National Democratic Party is now a pile of rubble
Says the architect, "we will continue full-speed ahead." The controversy surrounding Daniel Libeskind’s planned stone-and-glass pyramidal tower in Jerusalem reached fever pitch late last month. Following impassioned objections by groups and individuals, the city approved the plan October 28, but with major changes: officials reduced the height by more than one-third, from 539 feet to 355 feet; ordered the architect to replace the arched arcade around the base with retail businesses that open to the street; and forbade communication devices, such as cell phone towers, above the apex. Ten years were allowed for completion. Asked whether he would stay with
In presenting their work, a number of speakers at the ninth Mundaneum conference on architecture charted personal journeys of finding their professional voices. These tales included moments of doubt and self-criticism, along with humor and discovery.
For its first home, the National Public Housing Museum in Chicago fittingly chose a local public housing architect—not a globetrotting museum designer. After funding is secured, Landon Bone Baker Architects (LBBA) will adaptively reuse the last standing Jane Addams Home—one of the first public housing projects built in the city, named after a Progressive-era reformer—for the fledgling institution. It’s a unique-meta exercise for LBBA, which has excelled at designing community-oriented dwellings in a city with a tortured housing legacy. A museum dedicated to a stigmatized building type isn’t an intuitive choice, but LBBA’s Peter Landon says a closer look reveals
RSS
