Articles by Suzanne Stephens

First Look: Les Turbulences FRAC Centre

La Chose Sauvage: A Paris firm designs a wild form for a historic city.

August 16, 2013

A different kind of FRAC Centre (Les Fonds R'gionaux d'Art Contemporain) opens September 14 in the historic city of Orl'ans, France'it is the first of the some two dozen regional cultural institutions to be devoted to architectural exhibitions as well as art.

Suzanne Stephens

July 31, 2013

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Barry Bergdoll has decided to step down from his post as Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design at New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in September to assume the Meyer Schapiro Chair of Art History and Archeology in Columbia University’s School of the Arts and Sciences. Photo © Robin Holland Bergdoll, who has been at MoMA since January 2007 (while still teaching at Columbia where he has been a professor of art history since 1985) managed to create an impressive track record for well-received architecture and a design exhibitions for MoMA’s architecture and design department. He will

Stella 34 Trattoria

Miracle on 34th Street: Macy’s Herald Square has opened a new restaurant, which the venerable emporium plans as being a destination dining spot.

Suzanne Stephens

July 16, 2013

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A 240-foot-long, sculptural white marble bar in the Stella 34 Trattoria sinuously snakes through the city-block-long new restaurant on the sixth floor of Macy's Herald Square in New York City.

Asia Society Hong Kong Center

Cultural Bridge: On a thickly overgrown slope of Hong Kong, Tod Williams and Billie Tsien create a journey through time and space for the Asia Society.

Suzanne Stephens

June 16, 2013

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Over several decades of designing together, Tod Williams and Billie Tsien have steadfastly emphasized the serene and assured manipulation of spaces, planes, and materials, and exhibited an impeccable sense of craft.

Suzanne Stephens

June 7, 2013

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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,

Suzanne Stephens

April 29, 2013

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New York set designer Christine Jones has turned heads with her evocative rendition of Las Vegas in the new Met Opera production of Rigoletto. George Gagnidze as Rigoletto and Vittorio Grigolo as the Duke of Mantua in the Metropolitan Opera's production of Rigoletto. The Metropolitan Opera’s new production of Verdi’s Rigoletto premiered this this winter to rave reviews—including its set design by Christine Jones, known for her Broadway shows Hands on a Hardbody and the Tony award-winning American Idiot. Rigoletto’s director Michael Mayer has placed the staging of the opera in 1960s Las Vegas, rather than late Renaissance Mantua as

The Woolworth Building Turns 100

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Suzanne Stephens

April 24, 2013

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Cass Gilbert’s Gothic masterpiece, once the tallest building in the world, celebrates its centennial year. Image courtesy Architectural Record The Woolworth Building opened to much fanfare on April 24, 1913, when President Woodrow Wilson famously pressed a button to illuminate the tower for thousands of onlookers. Hailed as New York’s "Cathedral of Commerce," at a 792-foot height, Cass Gilbert’s Gothic-style tower held the title of tallest building in the world until the Bank of Manhattan Trust, designed by H. Craig Severance, and the Chrysler Building, by William Van Alen, were completed in 1930. For the Woolworth’s 100th birthday, Architectural Record

Patroc'nio House

Say It With Flowers: House and garden become one in a Lisbon dwelling designed by Lu's Rebelo de Andrade.

Suzanne Stephens

April 16, 2013

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Visitors to the hilltop neighborhood of Travessa do Patroc'nio in Lisbon come screeching to a halt (even if on foot) when they first glimpse a three-story house whose walls pulsate with lush vegetation.

The Hegeman

Supportive and Green

Suzanne Stephens

March 16, 2013

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When CookFox Architects was going after a LEED Platinum rating for One Bryant Park, in New York (2009), its younger staff approached principals Rick Cook and Robert Fox.

Suzanne Stephens

March 6, 2013

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RECORD speaks with the Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design at New York’s Museum of Modern Art about an exhibition devoted to the 19th-century French architect Henri Labrouste (1801-1875). Bibliothèque Sainte‐Geneviève, Paris, 1838‐1850. View of the reading room. Barry Bergdoll, the Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design at New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), opens a major exhibition devoted to the 19th-century French architect Henri Labrouste (1801-1875) on March 10. The show, Henri Labrouste: Structure Brought to Light, on view until June 24, 2013, looks at the major accomplishments of this progenitor of modern architecture,

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Credits: 1 AIA LU/HSW; 1 AIBD P-CE; 0.1 ICC CEU

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