Photo courtesy Siméon Duchoud/Aga Khan Trust for Culture Primary School by Diébédo Francis Kéré in Gando, Burkina Faso. Metro Cable by Urban-Think Tank in Caracas, Venezuela. Among the various trends in architectural practice that emerged in the past decade, two occupied polar sides of the spectrum. On one end, designers capitalized on the once-booming economy, conceiving grandiose towers for burgeoning cities like Dubai and Shanghai. On the other end, they turned their attention to humanitarian work, using their skills to create pragmatic buildings for those in need, from hurricane victims to slum dwellers. The latter is the focus of a
This year’s Showtime House is located in the Enrique Norten-designed Cassa Hotel and Residences in Midtown Manhattan. Click on the slide show icon to see images. Showtime Networks has unveiled its third annual show house in Manhattan, just in time for the launch of the fall television season. This year’s house, located in the top three floors of a new Enrique Norten-designed tower, features the work of 15 design studios. Each team was charged with creating a room that takes its cue from a Showtime program, including the comedy-dramas Dexter (about a good-guy serial killer) and Weeds (about a drug-dealing
Related Links: Design Vanguard: MOS Newsmakers: Michael Meredith and Hilary Sample Colorado House by ARO Sorkin: Suggestions on How to Spend $800 Billion Sorkin: Learning from the Hutong of Beijing and the Lilong of Shanghai Van Valkenburgh to Remake 2,400 Acres in Toronto The American Academy of Arts and Letters, established in 1898, recently honored the 2010 winners of its annual awards. The Awards in Architecture, selected from a group of 50 architects nominated by academy members, were presented to: Stephen Cassell and Adam Yarinsky, of Architecture Research Office; Michael Meredith and Hilary Sample, of MOS; and the architecture critic
Photo courtesy University of Massachusetts at Amherst David Dillon A leading architecture critic and RECORD contributor, David Dillon died June 3 of a heart attack at his Massachusetts home. He was 68. Dillon, who held degrees from Boston College and Harvard University, joined The Dallas Morning News in 1981, where he continued to work for 25 years. Respected both nationally and regionally, Dillon authored several books, including The Architecture of O’Neil Ford (1999), and taught at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. The school plans to establish a lecture series in honor of Dillon and host a remembrance event this