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Fred A. Bernstein

Fred Bernstein studied architecture at Princeton and law at NYU and writes about both subjects.

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Brand Name Architecture Available to Go (and to Stay) at Design Miami

Fred A. Bernstein
December 8, 2015
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Design fairs are crawling with collectors ready to drop thousands of dollars on objects that promise immediate gratification. Case in point: The charming beaded sculptures made by the Los Angeles brothers Nikolai and Simon Haas with the help of women from South Africa’s Khayelitsha Township. The objects—oversized mushrooms and Sendak-like animals—sold out within a half hour of the opening of Design Miami last Tuesday, at up to $150,000 apiece.
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Atelier ARS˚, Guadalajara, Mexico

A legacy of industry and modernism provides a foundation for a firm that is just a decade old.
Fred A. Bernstein
December 1, 2015
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“The acrobatic novelty of much of today’s architecture doesn’t interest us,” says Alejandro Guerrero. He and Andrea Soto describe themselves as traditionalists, with one caveat: their tradition is modernism.


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Steven Holl Collaborates with Jessica Lang Dance Company

Fred A. Bernstein
December 1, 2015
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The relationship between architecture and dance—the art of creating spaces and the art of navigating spaces—is fertile territory.


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REX to Design Delayed Ground Zero Arts Center

Fred A. Bernstein
November 20, 2015
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The performing arts center that was part of Daniel Libeskind’s original master plan for Ground Zero has come a step closer to being built, but at one-third of its original size.


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New Tower at the U.S. Air Force Academy

A recent addition threatens the integrity of Walter Netsch’s landmark campus.
Fred A. Bernstein
November 19, 2015
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Skidmore, Owings & Merrill’s United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs is one of Modernism’s triumphs — perhaps the most successful campus ever created as a single International Style work.


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Dubai Design Week

Dubai Hosts Inaugural Design Week

Fred A. Bernstein
November 16, 2015
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The organizers of the first Dubai Design Week chose as its opening night speaker an architect who has never built in Dubai, despite having proposed several projects there.


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Busy Bodies

Fred A. Bernstein
November 15, 2015
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If you’ve ever felt like a slacker, neither of these books will help. You’ll know even before you open them—one weighs 4.4 pounds; the other, more than 7—that they represent thousands of hours of painstaking effort.


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The Lowline Lab

The Lowdown on the Lowline

RECORD takes a sneak peek into New York’s first underground park.
Fred A. Bernstein
October 26, 2015
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New Yorkers don’t mind being underground when the surroundings are as welcoming as Rockefeller Center’s concourse or Grand Central Terminal’s Oyster Bar.


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SANAA, SHoP, and More Present at RECORD's New York 2015 Innovation Conference

400 architects, designers, and students attended Architectural Record’s Innovation Conference.
Fred A. Bernstein
October 12, 2015
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For Ryue Nishizawa and Kazuyo Sejima, principals of the Pritzker Prize-winning firm SANAA, innovation can occur long before a building is designed.


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A Salt Shed for Spring Street

Fred A. Bernstein
September 23, 2015
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Dattner Architects and WXY teamed up on an angular, seven-story building in Manhattan's TriBeCa neighborhood designed to hold 5,000 tons of salt. The creation of miles of parkland along the west side of Manhattan hasn’t come cheap; to make way for benches and bike lanes, the city has had to relocate Sanitation Department facilities that had faced the Hudson River. That decades-long task has now resulted in an architectural gem: a municipal salt shed in the form of a shapely concrete container that is winning rave reviews — even from people who have no idea what it’s for. (Honestly, a
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