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The Palestinian MuseumHeneghan Peng Architects A museum of Palestinian history, culture, and identity, the largest in the West Bank, is under construction following the cornerstone laying in April. The Dublin-based Heneghan Peng Architects, who also designed the Grand Egyptian Museum, were chosen in an international competition. They drew inspiration from the West Bank’s landscape and are embedding the museum in a series of cascading fieldstone terraces. Clad in local limestone, a traditional building material, the structure consists of sleek, wedge-shaped sections. The Palestinian Museum is sited on a nearly 10-acre hilltop plot donated by the adjacent Birzeit University, near Ramallah,

Denise Scott Brown will not receive a retroactive Pritzker Prize, said the chair of the award's jury, Lord Peter Palumbo, in a letter released today. The letter is addressed to the two Harvard Graduate students behind a petition to have Scott Brown honored alongside her husband and partner, Robert Venturi, who won the prize in 1991.

A day-long symposium marking the opening of a new show at the Museum of Modern Art outlined the architect's tortured affair with the city. Photo © The Museum of Modern Art An installation view of the reconstruction of Le Corbusier's Cabanon, Roquebrune-Cap-Martin (1951-52). The Museum of Modern Art. Manufactured by Cassina SpA, Milan The relationship between Le Corbusier and New York City involved love and hatred, passion and resentment, and ultimately a quest by the architect for “revenge, recognition, and money, money, money,” according to Jean-Louis Cohen, the architecture historian who curated the new show at New York's Museum of

In 2010, Moscow-based architecture photographer Alexey Naroditskiy shot Le Corbusier's contributions to the Indian city of Chandigarh, which the architect masterplanned in the 1950s. In 2011 Naroditskiy's photos appeared in an exhibition at the Shchusev State Museum of Architecture in Moscow. We share some of them here in light of Le Corbusier: An Atlas of Modern Landscapes, opening June 15 at New York City's Museum of Modern Art. Click the image below.

If you are sitting in a very comfortable chair, you may owe your good fortune to designer Niels Diffrient, who died on June 8 at age 84 after a brief illness. Forbes magazine once called him “the granddaddy of ergonomic design.” He was that and so much more—the co-author with Alvin R. Tilley and Joan Bardagjy of a series of books called Humanscale 1-9, the designer of the Humanscale Freedom and Liberty chairs, Sunar Hauserman’s Helena and Jefferson Chairs, and Knoll Diffrient Chairs as well as of John Deere tractors, Trimline telephones, cockpits and truck cabs, and American Airlines graphics.

After a 12-year renovation, the museum reopens this weekend with a new garden and display spaces. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles CO Architects Los Angeles Are-invigorated Natural History Museum (NHM) of Los Angeles County will welcome the public this weekend in celebration of its centennial year and the two newest elements of its $135 million, 12-year overhaul. Taking a cue from the city’s modernist architecture, the museum blurs the line between indoors and out with the debut of the Otis Booth Pavilion and a 3.5-acre “Nature Garden.” The final two pieces of the museum’s transformation—a new 14,000-square-foot permanent exhibition

After a 12-year renovation, the museum reopens this weekend with a new garden and display spaces. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles CO Architects Los Angeles Are-invigorated Natural History Museum (NHM) of Los Angeles County will welcome the public this weekend in celebration of its centennial year and the two newest elements of its $135 million, 12-year overhaul. Taking a cue from the city’s modernist architecture, the museum blurs the line between indoors and out with the debut of the Otis Booth Pavilion and a 3.5-acre “Nature Garden.” The final two pieces of the museum’s transformation—a new 14,000-square-foot permanent exhibition

After a 12-year renovation, the museum reopens this weekend with a new garden and display spaces by Mia Lehrer + Associates and CO Architects. Designed by CO Architects, the Natural History Museum's Otis Booth Pavilion is a six-story glass entrance space that re-orients the museum toward L.A.'s Exposition Boulevard, a new light rail line, and, more importantly, a flourishing greenscape in a former parking lot. A re-invigorated Natural History Museum (NHM) of Los Angeles County will welcome the public this weekend in celebration of its centennial year and the two newest elements of its $135 million, 12-year overhaul. Taking a

Record talks with the eminent architecture historian and architect who organized the comprehensive new Le Corbusier exhibition at New York's Museum of Modern Art. Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret), Villa Savoye, Poissy, 1928–31 (Photo 2012) You might say it’s about time. Finally a retrospective of the pioneering master of modern architecture has been mounted by the Architecture and Design Department at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. Le Corbusier: An Atlas of Modern Landscapes (on view until September 23), presents a vast range of the work of the influential architect who was born Charles-Edouard Jeanneret in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland in 1887,