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Our annual review of kitchen and bath design includes a Manhattan apartment finished in local materials, a challenging kitchen renovation in Montreal’s Habitat 67, and a land-worthy kitchen and master bath for a private yacht.
Photo courtesy of the World Monuments Fund 510 Fifth Avenue, New York, United States. The former home of the Manufacturers Hanover Trust, at 510 Fifth Avenue, has made the World Monuments Fund (WMF) 2012 Watch List, along with 66 other sites from 41 nations across the globe. On October 5th, WMF released its biennial list of archaeological, architectural, and cultural sites threatened by development, climate change, and natural decay. The 56-year-old Manufacturers Hanover Trust building, designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill’s Gordon Bunshaft in 1954, has long been embroiled in a battle between New York City’s Landmarks Preservation Commission and
When the National September 11 Memorial opens at Ground Zero on the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks, it will be joined by another commemorative effort, across the Hudson River, in Jersey City, New Jersey.
With a portfolio of widely praised projects, including Chicago’s Aqua Tower, to her credit, architect Jeanne Gang can now add “genius” to the list of accolades she has received for her work.
Image courtesy HMC Architects Medical Complex, Shunde District, China. Click on the slideshow button to see more images. Related Links: Building Types Study: Health Care U.S.-based HMC Architects in collaboration with the Shunde Architectural Design Institute (SDADI) has designed a 223,000-square-meter medical complex for a 13.4-hectare site in the Shunde district, outside the city of Foshan, China. HMC project architect Raymond Pan describes the complex as a “tertiary medical center,” one that will offer in- and out-patient facilities, dormitories for resident physicians and staff, and training facilities for new doctors and technicians. The nine-building complex will also be home to
This October, the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute’s Museum of Art in Utica, New York, will celebrate the 50th anniversary of its Philip Johnson-designed home with an exhibition commemorating the work of the illustrious Modernist and Postmodernist architect.
A former business partner of acclaimed architect Philip Johnson recently unveiled an archive of nearly 25,000 sketches, tracings, and renderings from between 1968 and 1992, a sparsely documented period of Johnson’s prolific career.
Ambitious plans for a new concert hall are well under way in Orlando, Florida. In conjunction with HKS Architects and local firm Baker Barrios Architects, Los Angeles-based Barton Myers Associates (BMA) has been selected to design the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts (DPAC), for which groundbreaking is scheduled for this fall. Image courtesy Barton Myers Associates Click on the slide show icon to see additional photos. Related Links: Tempe Center for the Arts Fashioning an Aural Architecture 9350 Civic Center Drive BMA is well known for its bold performing arts centers, like Arizona’s Tempe Center for the Arts,
