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Image courtesy of SWA SWA has designed the public open spaces for Suzhou Center. Click to view more images. Related Links: China News Old Factories Get New Wrapping in Shanghai EMBT Designs Zhang Da Qian Museum in Neijiang International landscape architecture firm SWA has been working in the city of Suzhou since 2003, providing landscape design and planning services for a number of projects, including the Gao Xin District and all 45 acres of Suzhou Industrial Park Times Square. Having proven its ability to weave contemporary, pedestrian-friendly design into a city with a rich 2,500-year history of canals, gardens, and

Image courtesy dEEP Architects Beijing-based dEEP Architects has transformed a pair of old factories into an office building for Material ConneXion. Image courtesy dEEP Architects Office building for Material ConneXion. Related Links: China News EMBT Designs Zhang Da Qian Museum in Neijiang Landscape Will Connect New Business District in Suzhou Beijing-based dEEP Architects has transformed a pair of old factories into an office building for Material ConneXion, a company that provides information on building materials. The architects renovated and connected the abandoned factory buildings in the Jiading district of Shanghai, wrapping them with a new aluminum envelope.“We kept intact the

Image courtesy EMBT EMBT Designs Zhang Da Qian Museum in Sichuan Province. Click to view more images. Related Links: China News Old Factories Get New Wrapping in Shanghai Landscape Will Connect New Business District in Suzhou Construction will start this year on a museum dedicated to the work of artist Zhang Da Qian. Located in Neijiang, in Sichuan Province, the project was designed by Benedetta Tagliabue, head of the Barcelona studio Miralles Tagliabue EMBT. Zhang Da Qian was born in Nejiang in 1899. Although he left China in 1948, never to return, he is avidly collected in China, and is

Image courtesy EMC Gehry has made several changes to the original design: A statue of Eisenhower as a seated barefoot boy has been moved from the center to the back and will now show him as a standing young man; Two free-standing sculptures, rather than bas reliefs in stone walls, will depict Eisenhower as a general and president; The walls will contain quotes from Eisenhower speeches. Related Links: A Monumental Debate Gehry Hopes to Meet with Eisenhower Family to Allay Concerns Gehry Chosen to Design Ike Memorial in D.C. On Tuesday morning, the 11-member Eisenhower Memorial Commission (EMC) met in

The firm unveils its design for a performance art training camp in upstate New York. Image courtesy OMA Click the image above to view renderings and drawings for OMA's Marina Abramović Institute. Marina Abramović goaded a man to insert his head into the base of an architectural model at an event to unveil the design for the artist’s new institute for performance art. After some hesitation, he obliged, and a group of photographers gathered to snap photos of the illuminated mock-up now capping his suddenly prone body. Image © Architectural Record Abramović shows off a model for the project. The

Construction is progressing on the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, the London architect's first United States project. Image courtesy Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland Rendering of Farshid Moussavi's Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland. Image courtesy Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland According to the designer, painted ceilings and perimeter walls will give the galleries a sense of boundless space. Farshid Moussavi's new home for the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (MOCA) is nearing completion in the city's emerging Uptown district. The 34,000-square-foot, four-story building anchors a key intersection in an area that's part of University Circle, a cultural hub with institutions

Despite declining attendance and revenue, many cities are expanding convention centers or building new ones. Photo courtesy Events DC The Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Washington, D.C.  Click to view more images. Related Links: See Us at the 2012 AIA Convention Record Reveals: Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C. Convention Center by TVSA After decades of being dissed, New York’s Jacob K. Javits Convention Center is finally getting some respect: A $463 million renovation, designed by the Manhattan firm FXFOWLE, will play to the building’s strengths (preserving its once-revolutionary space frame) while bringing massive aesthetic, organizational, and environmental improvements. And with a

Image courtesy Richard Meier & Partners New Headquarters of Vinci Partners, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Click to view more images. Related Links: Richard Meier Tapped for Two W Hotels in Mexico Interview: Richard Meier Continuing a recent push into Latin America, Richard Meier has brought his taut and planar aesthetic to Brazil, where the New York architect has been hired to design a seven-story office in Rio de Janeiro. The boxy, 50,000-square-foot building, which is to be located one block from the beach in the trendy Leblon neighborhood, will become the new headquarters of Vinci Partners, a global investment firm.

The History Colorado Center, designed by native David Tryba, opens this Saturday. Photo © Frank Ooms The architect clad the 200,000-square-foot History Colorado Center in limestone. Photo ' Frank Ooms Related Links: Clyfford Still Museum by Allied Works Denver Art Museum Shop by Roth + Sheppard Denver Art Museum by Libeskind Denver’s Golden Triangle neighborhood, just south of stately Civic Center Park, has become something of an architectural showcase, with an eclectic assortment of works by Gio Ponti (the 1971 Denver Art Museum), Michael Graves (a 1995 addition to the Denver Public Library), Daniel Libeskind (a 2006 art museum expansion),

Photo courtesy Generator Studio Generator Studio’s Sun Pavilion at the Nelson-Atkins Museum in Kansas City, Missouri. The curators of Inventing the Modern World: Decorative Arts at the World’s Fairs 1851-1939 spent years tracking down the 200 objects now on view at Kansas City’s Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. But as the April opening approached, one key piece of the world’s fair story was missing—pavilion design. Though the objects would be housed in Steven Holl’s 2007 addition to the museum, curator Catherine Futter wanted to capture the feeling of world’s fair architecture with a temporary structure on the museum’s lawn. In January,