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Toronto, Canada Gehry International Photo courtesy David Thomson The late media mogul, art collector, and patron Kenneth Thomson David Thomson Clifford Pearson: What was your relationship to your father and this project? David Thomson: My father and I were very close. We both pursued art. It was an extension of our relationship. Frank and my father really connected on this project. The intensity of feeling between them was remarkable and is reflected, I think, in the spaces Frank created for the art. This was the special outcome of this project. Frank’s relationship with my father allowed him to take more
Toronto, Canada Gehry International Photo courtesy AGO Photographic Resources AGO director and CEO Matthew Teitelbaum Matthew Teitelbaum Clifford Pearson: What was your thinking at the start of this project? Matthew Teitelbaum: In the beginning, we had two main goals—to create some great new spaces for art and to fix some of the circulation problems we had. This was our seventh expansion so the museum had grown piece by piece by piece. As we started working with Frank, we developed more specific goals. We wanted to establish a clear destination for the art, so visitors can encounter it quickly and directly.
From Beaubourg to New Caledonia, the man and his Workshop have reimagined places for art, culture, people, and commerce. To understand Renzo Piano’s five-decade-long career, we need to examine his remarkably fluid journey from architectural rebel to cultural establishment go-to man. The bearded provocateur who experimented with movable structures in the 1960s and, with Richard Rogers, inserted a colorful Tinkertoy in the staid center of Paris in the 1970s has evolved into the trusted hand of museum boards and corporate clients. His work no longer challenges the way we view architecture or topples established notions of design, but it impresses
Record Houses 2007: VilLA NM Ring House Brown House Casa Poli Ohana Guest House Christ Church Tower Loblolly House Maryland KieranTimberlake Associates On a wooded site on Taylors Island, Maryland, KieranTimberlake tested a new way of building with the Loblolly house Stephen Kieran, FAIA, likens his family’s new weekend house on Taylors Island in Maryland to a duck blind, one of those three-sided shelters that hunters build to make themselves disappear in the woods or a marsh. Barklike vertical strips of red cedar clad three elevations of Kieran’s 2,200-square-foot house, camouflaging it on a 4-acre Chesapeake Bay site thick with
Stephen Kieran, FAIA, likens his family’s new weekend house on Taylors Island in Maryland to a duck blind, one of those three-sided shelters that hunters build to make themselves disappear in the woods or a marsh.
At a time when Americans are deeply divided about the role of government and whether judges should interpret or apply the law, courthouse architecture has become a potential battlefield.
Adding a 440,000-square-foot clinic to an urban site already occupied by several buildings requires a talent for master planning, architecture, and logistics.