History haunts a (non)landmark When I was a kid (though not a mere child), I defended Edward Durell Stone’s much maligned Gallery of Modern Art at 2 Columbus Circle when it opened in 1964. It had that recherché white marble cladding with an arcade and loggia outside, and rich walnut and macassar ebony paneling within. Thick, jungle-red-carpeted stairs took you up to intimate galleries at half-levels, where a soigné and surreal art collection, including Gustave Moreau’s Salome Dancing Before Herod (1874–76), awaited. At the top of the museum was the Gauguin Room, with tapestries à la Gauguin, where you could
This Friday, November 14, the City of Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and its partners DekaBank and the Deutsches Architekturmuseum, will announce the winner of the 2008 International Highrise Award at a ceremony in Frankfurt.
Brillembourg, who was born in New York but has family ties to Caracas, and Klumpner, who grew up in Austria, both studied architecture at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation in New York City.
The headquarters of the American Can Company, also known as CANCO—the company that invented the modern-day aluminum can—were designed by Alfred Kahn and constructed in 1927.
It is striking to discover the unabashedly futuristic architecture of spectacle of the Zenith concert halls cropping up on the outskirts of French towns and cities often best known for the soaring spires of their Gothic cathedrals.
Project Specs Zenith de Strasbourg Eckbolsheim, France Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas << Return to article the People Architect Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas, principals Project manager Julian Therme Project architect Michele d’Arcangelo Engineer: BETOM Ingenierie (concrete) Simon & Christiansen, Jacob et Christiansen (structural) the Products
Amy Archer began making large-scale, photographic art works by accident. In 2005, she was meeting a friend for breakfast at the Rockefeller Center Club in Manhattan. While waiting, she snapped some photos of the light glinting off the restaurant’s Art Deco-style chairs.
Photo courtesy Platt Byard Dovell White Paul S. Byard Paul Spencer Byard, FAIA, a partner in the firm of Platt Byard Dovell White Architects in New York City, and the director of the historic preservation program at Columbia University, died on July 15 of colon cancer. He was 68 years old. Born in 1939 in New York City, Byard long advocated a modern approach to preservation and restoration, as his book, The Architecture of Additions, Design and Regulation (1998), convincingly reveals. In the book Byard argues that innovative expressive design can enhance the older, original, and often historic structure to
A noticeable trend of late seems to be for major art collectors to create their own private museums, much as their Enlightenment forebears did in the 18th century.