‘Shigeru Ban: The Paper Log House’ lands at the Glass House to coincide with the 75th anniversary of the landmark New Canaan, Connecticut, residence and its recently restored brick guest cottage.
‘We wanted to take the sustainability of the building to the extreme,’ says Francis Kéré of the timber structure designed in cooperation with Austrian wood specialists HK Architekten.
Berlin-based Gustav Düsing and Max Hacke are the youngest winners ever to take the top prize for contemporary European architecture for their project at TU Braunschweig.
The unveiling coincided with the opening of the retrospective exhibition ‘Renzo Piano and RPBW: Le Fil Rouge of Contemporary Architecture’ at the Boca Raton Museum of Art.
Construction kicks off hot on the tail of the announcement that the esteemed performing art school’s Grand Avenue neighbor, The Broad, is also expanding.
The Finnish capital gives another go at bringing a museum to its revitalized South Harbor following the spectacular flame-out of a plan to build a Guggenheim outpost in the area.
The 55,000-square-foot addition will break ground next year in conjunction with the wildly popular museum’s tenth anniversary, with plans to open to the public just ahead of L.A.’s 2028 Summer Olympics.