Articles by Laura Raskin

Katrin Sigurdardottir

Katrín Sigurdardóttir

Laura Raskin
August 16, 2014
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Katrín Sigurdardóttir was born in Reykjavik and moved to the United States in 1988 to attend the San Francisco Art Institute. The artist now splits her time between studios in Long Island City, New York, and Iceland. As it is in her life, a kind of diasporic mobility is a key theme in Sigurdardóttir’s work. 


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Dallas City Performance Hall

Laura Raskin
June 16, 2014
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The dallas Arts District—a 68-acre area in the city's downtown masterplanned by Sasaki Associates—is dense with architectural gems devoted to the visual and performing arts. Its anchor is Edward Larrabee Barnes's Dallas Museum of Art, completed in 1984. Over the next 20 years, up went I.M. Pei's Symphony Center (1989), Renzo Piano's Nasher Sculpture Center (2003), and Allied Works' expansion of the Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts (2008), among other new buildings and renovations. A Foster + Partners performing arts center followed in 2009, as did the REX/OMA Wyly Theatre. James Burnett's Klyde Warren
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Fall House

Cliff Hanger: A volumetric copper and glass form sidles up to the edge of a bluff overlooking the Pacific Ocean.
Laura Raskin
April 16, 2014
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Driving to Big Sur on coast-hugging Highway 1 — say, south from San Francisco — you have to be cautious.


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The Interlace

The Interlace

Stack the Decks: Architect Ole Scheeren hypothesized that dense urban residential living didn't have to occur in an isolating skyscraper—and he was right.
Laura Raskin
March 16, 2014
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Ole Scheeren is no stranger to megaprojects. As a former partner and director at the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), he led the design and construction of the 5.1 million-square-foot CCTV Headquarters in Beijing and was the lead designer of the MahaNakhon Tower in Bangkok, which, when completed in 2016, will be the tallest in the city at 77 stories and 1,030 feet.


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Football Performance Center, University of Oregon

Fantasy League: The University of Oregon's football team is known for an offense that dizzies its opponents. A new building to support these student athletes also blurs the lines between transparency and stealth.
Laura Raskin
November 15, 2013
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In a video that shows the Oregon Ducks football team being introduced this past summer to their new Football Performance Center at the University of Oregon, player after player has the same gobsmacked look on his face.


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Newsmaker: Winka Dubbeldam

Laura Raskin
September 16, 2013
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Photo courtesy Architecture Forum Aedes An exhibition this summer at Berlin's Aedes showcased the research and planning scenarios that grew out of MyIdealCity.com. The start of the school year marks Winka Dubbeldam’s first fall semester as chair of the Department of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Design. But the principal of New York firm Archi-tectonics has hardly been on summer vacation. She has been traveling the globe to discuss MyIdealCity.com, a crowd-sourced, bottom-up urban planning project for downtown Bogotá, Colombia, that she and her office helped develop. (“I love working there. I might be a closet Latin
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Lone Mountain Ranch House

Located on the turquoise trail between Albuquerque and Santa Fe, the Lone Mountain Ranch House by Rick Joy Architects is a light-filled twist on the low-slung form.
Laura Raskin
September 16, 2013
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Located on the turquoise trail between Albuquerque and Santa Fe, the Lone Mountain Ranch House by Rick Joy Architects is a light-filled twist on the low-slung form. The American West merges with the Far East on a 27,000-acre Wagyu-cattle ranch in a ghost town called Golden, New Mexico. Tucson-based architect Rick Joy designed a six-bedroom house for a couple who inherited the land.


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