A temporary show at Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine pits modern furniture against casts of fragments from Medieval and Renaissance architecture.
With the 2022 FIFA World Cup imminent, Qatar is on a tear to reshape its capital, building stand-out architecture and legacy infrastructure that will shape the city for decades.
Swiss architect Peter Zumthor’s controversial design for LACMA has turned into Los Angeles’ most serious cultural issue in the last decade, writes commentator Joseph Giovannini.
Last Wednesday, just as a thousand people left the prayer service for Zaha Hadid at London’s Grand Mosque, it started to rain—appropriately enough at a dramatic diagonal—and not long after, as her family and friends motored in a caravan of buses to a cemetery in Surrey, the clouds parted and a double rainbow appeared.
The Berlin site is woven into a dense urban fabric, but the embassy in Beijing, designed by Craig Hartman of the San Francisco office of SOM, sits within a gated island of walled space several ring roads removed from the Forbidden City.
