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Home » Authors » Alan G. Brake

Alan G. Brake

Alan G. Brake is the editor of Oculus and a columnist for Dezeen.

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LMN Architects Expands and Restores the Seattle Asian Art Museum

LMN Architects Expands and Restores the Seattle Asian Art Museum

Alan G. Brake
October 24, 2019
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See new images of the expanded institution, which re-opens to the public this weekend, on February 8, 2020.
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Lina Bo Bardi

Furniture in Context: Lina Bo Bardi & Giancarlo Palanti at Gladstone 64

Alan G. Brake
May 17, 2019
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Running through June 15, an exhibition at a gallery on New York’s Upper East Side showcases the furniture of the Italian-Brazilian architect and her collaborator.


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Asian Art Museum

Asian Art Museum Releases Renderings of Renovation and Expansion by wHY

Alan G. Brake
September 26, 2017
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The museum, located in San Francisco’s Beaux Arts Civic Center, will gain a new pavilion and terrace.


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Kentucky Museum

Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft by Christoff : Finio

Louisville, Kentucky
Alan G. Brake
July 2, 2017
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A revamped museum in Louisville asserts its presence on Main Street.


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10 Hudson Yards

10 Hudson Yards by KPF

New York City
Alan G. Brake
May 1, 2017
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A chiseled skyscraper by Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates anchors Manhattan’s new west-side neighborhood.


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DLANDstudio Gowanus Canal Sponge Park

Sponge-Worthy Design for the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn

Alan G. Brake
November 1, 2016
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DLANDstudio completes a landscape project that absorbs stormwater from Brooklyn’s most toxic waterway.
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Socrates

Shipping Container Structure by LOT-EK to Arrive at Socrates Sculpture Park

Alan G. Brake
October 27, 2016
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The Socrates Sculpture Park in Queens, New York is celebrating its 30th anniversary with an ambitious plan to build a new building made of old shipping containers—the site’s first permanent structure.


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Peter Zumthor

Peter Zumthor’s Gravity-Defying Structures in Norway Commemorate—and Evoke—the Perils of Mining

Alan G. Brake
September 19, 2016
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Peter Zumthor’s recently completed project in Norway was fourteen years in the making, due in part to its challenging site and to the Pritzker prize-winning architect’s highly deliberate way of working.


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Buildings Fingered in NYC Carbon Inventory

Alan G. Brake
April 16, 2007
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With the ambitious goal of reducing its greenhouses gas emissions 30 percent by the year 2030, the City of New York recently completed an inventory of its carbon output from buildings and transportation—and the results weren’t pretty when it comes to buildings, which contribute a whopping 79 percent of the total emissions. The audit is the most comprehensive ever undertaken by a city. Its findings came as a surprise to some observers, given that New Yorkers, with their tiny apartments and extensive mass transit network, produce about one-third the carbon per capita compared to the national average. Given the city’s
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McDonough Opens Bay Area Office

Alan G. Brake
April 4, 2007
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As interest in green design keeps building, a pioneer of sustainability, McDonough + Partners, continues to capitalize on the trend. Based in Charlottesville, Virginia, the firm blazed a trail in sustainability with projects such as its grass-roofed headquarters for Gap Inc., in San Bruno, California. After this influential building was completed in 1997, demand for work slowed in the Bay Area. But things are looking up again—so much so that McDonough opened an office in San Francisco last year. It has won three major commissions in the region, including two for technology-sector clients, and now is setting its sights across
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