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The Museum of Modern Art in New York announced today that it has commissioned Diller Scofidio + Renfro to plan an expasion into the former site of the American Folk Art Museum.

Photo © Michael Moran The Museum of Modern Art in New York is expected to announce today that it has selected an architect to create a design for the site of the American Folk Art Museum's former home. Last month, MoMA stated its intention to raze the small museum building, an acclaimed design by Tod Williams Billie Tsien that was completed in 2001, to make way for an expansion of its own large facility on West 53rd Street in Manhattan. Word has it that the firm likely to be named is Diller Scofidio + Renfro. It is unclear whether the

A Beacon on the East River, with its neon sign capping a jumble of buildings that represent more than 100 years of industrial architecture, Brooklyn’s Domino Sugar factory has had few visitors since shuttering more than a decade ago. But last week, guests at a fundraiser for the public art organization Creative Time got a look inside one of its main buildings. The massive hall is slated to become the center of a cultural complex flanked by residential towers in a SHoP Architects-designed plan to redevelop the factory. Creative Time board member, Jed Walentas, a principal at Two Trees (the

  Peter Murray British architect, journalist, and cyclist Peter Murray has embarked on a bike ride from Portland, Oregon, to Portland Place in London. As he makes the 4,347-mile journey with a rotating group of participants, he plans to survey the state of cycling in American cities, meet up with members of the design community, and raise funds for Architecture for Humanity and U.K. relief organization Article 25.Along the way, Murray is filing updates about his progress for Architectural Record.It was over a breakfast meeting with Architectural Record editor in chief Cathleen McGuigan that she told me she knew the

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

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