Worlds of Cityvision will be on view at the WUHO Gallery in Los Angeles through March 23, 2014. The exhibition features urban proposals submitted to international ideas competitions launched by independent architecture lab Cityvision, as well as the lab's own projects. Cityvision team members, left to right: Sebastian Di Guardo, Vanessa Todaro, Joshua Mackley, Boris Prosperini, Ilja Burchard, and Francesco Lipari. The timelessness of Rome—the Eternal City—can be problematic for young architects attempting to break free of its design conservatism. Cityvision, an independent architecture lab based in Rome, offers an outlet by sponsoring competitions, publishing a magazine, and hosting lectures
An exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara highlights today's expanded definition of architectural practice. Ball-Nogues Studio's paper-mached toilet paper lamps at the Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara in California. Gone are the days when emerging architects were confined to building houses. Opening this Sunday at the recently re-branded Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara (MCASB), Almost Anything Goes: Architecture and Inclusivity highlights the many ways a studio can practice in the new century. "We wanted to show a broad sample of all these disparate types of practices," says visiting curator Brigitte Kouo, a designer with a
The Skirball Cultural Center, a Jewish educational institution in Los Angeles, has completed the fourth and final phase of its campus with the addition of Herscher Hall and Guerin Pavilion.
“It’s still a sausage factory here,” explained Elizabeth Diller, Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R) principal, of the work in progress during last week’s hard hat tour of The Broad Museum, a 120,000-square-foot, three-story contemporary art museum built by philanthropists Eli and Edythe Broad in downtown Los Angeles. Workers climbed atop scaffolding, structural innards lay bare on the walls, and a fine dust settled on the concrete floors, but one could already see glimpses of what was to come.Sited beside the Walt Disney Concert Hall, DS+R (with Gensler as executive architect and Matt Construction as general contractor) adhered to a “veil
The new Tom Bradley International Terminal at the Los Angeles International Airport. Finishing touches remain, but Los Angeles residents and select media got a glimpse last weekend of the glittering new $1.9-billion Tom Bradley International Terminal (TBIT) at the Los Angeles International Airport. Built to improve the passenger experience and accommodate bigger airplanes, the new terminal is a cavernous 1.2-million square, suffused with natural light. Outfitted with more than 60 dining and retail options, including many local Los Angeles businesses, plus coveted electrical outlets and USB ports at 47 percent of the seats at the gates, the upgrade is a
After a 12-year renovation, the museum reopens this weekend with a new garden and display spaces. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles CO Architects Los Angeles Are-invigorated Natural History Museum (NHM) of Los Angeles County will welcome the public this weekend in celebration of its centennial year and the two newest elements of its $135 million, 12-year overhaul. Taking a cue from the city’s modernist architecture, the museum blurs the line between indoors and out with the debut of the Otis Booth Pavilion and a 3.5-acre “Nature Garden.” The final two pieces of the museum’s transformation—a new 14,000-square-foot permanent exhibition
After a 12-year renovation, the museum reopens this weekend with a new garden and display spaces by Mia Lehrer + Associates and CO Architects. Designed by CO Architects, the Natural History Museum's Otis Booth Pavilion is a six-story glass entrance space that re-orients the museum toward L.A.'s Exposition Boulevard, a new light rail line, and, more importantly, a flourishing greenscape in a former parking lot. A re-invigorated Natural History Museum (NHM) of Los Angeles County will welcome the public this weekend in celebration of its centennial year and the two newest elements of its $135 million, 12-year overhaul. Taking a
After a 12-year renovation, the museum reopens this weekend with a new garden and display spaces. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles CO Architects Los Angeles Are-invigorated Natural History Museum (NHM) of Los Angeles County will welcome the public this weekend in celebration of its centennial year and the two newest elements of its $135 million, 12-year overhaul. Taking a cue from the city’s modernist architecture, the museum blurs the line between indoors and out with the debut of the Otis Booth Pavilion and a 3.5-acre “Nature Garden.” The final two pieces of the museum’s transformation—a new 14,000-square-foot permanent exhibition
Model of Peter Zumthor's scheme for LACMA. Installation view. The Presence of the Past: Peter Zumthor Reconsiders LACMA, June 9 - Sept. 15, 2013. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) has long been due for a major overhaul, according to its director Michael Govan and the Pritzker Prize-winning architect Peter Zumthor, who has been commissioned to re-think the museum’s east campus. “If you were to restore it, it would not really work because I think it never really worked well as a museum,” said Zumthor at a packed public conversation with Govan at the museum on Monday night.
What began as architects Catherine Johnson and Rebecca Rudolph’s provocative response to the question “What is architecture?,” posed by the American Institute of Architects Los Angeles chapter as part of a 2010 competition, became the ethos of the duo’s collaboration: “It is design, bitches” was their answer.