https://www.architecturalrecord.com/rss/3201-marcel-breuer en-us http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/16157 Tue, 21 Mar 2023 12:01:21 -0400 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/16157-a-breuer-designed-ibm-complex-finds-new-life-as-a-floridian-tech-campus Crocker_BRiC-04LEAD.jpg The present-day Boca Raton Innovation Campus (BRiC), completed in 1970 as a Marcel Breuer and Robert F. Gatje–designed office, research, and manufacturing complex for IBM. Courtesy CP Group Crocker_BRiC-9235.webp The original office structure's concrete panel facade has held up remarkably well over the decades and is being preserved as part of the latest round of renovations at the campus. Photo courtesy CP Group CF008970-copy.webp A cafe at the BRiC campus pays homage to Breuer. Photo courtesy CP Group http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/15520 Sun, 20 Feb 2022 11:00:00 -0500 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/15520-though-beloved-midcentury-modern-houses-are-vanishing Selldorf Architects and the curatorial team created a series of temporary galleries for the Frick’s collection of European art, reframing its stories in the process.

]]> http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/15027 Thu, 04 Mar 2021 11:00:00 -0500 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/15027-frick-madison-brings-a-new-look-to-the-breuer 1-Frick-Selldorf.jpeg Located at 945 Madison Avenue at East 75th Street, Marcel Breuer’s 1966 modernist masterpiece for the Whitney Museum of American Art is clad in granite and expands out as it rises. 2-Frick-Selldorf.jpeg Bellini’s St. Francis in the Desert, one of the Frick’s most important and loved works, is displayed in isolation, paired with one of the iconic trapezoidal windows Marcel Breuer conceived for the building.  Photo © Joe Coscia 3-Frick-Selldorf.jpeg Fragonard’s series The Progress of Love is shown together in two rooms. At right, a group of panels of Hollyhocks.    Photo © Joe Coscia 4-Frick-Selldorf.jpeg The third-floor galleries begin with three rare marble examples of Italian Renaissance portrait sculpture. By Laurana and Verrocchio, they date to the 1470s. Photo © Joe Coscia 6-Frick-Selldorf.jpeg Four grand panels of Fragonard’s series The Progress of Love are shown together at Frick Madison in a gallery illuminated by one of Marcel Breuer’s trapezoidal windows. Photo © Joe Coscia 7-Frick-Selldorf.jpeg A dramatic display of European and Asian porcelain (ca. 1500–ca. 1900) is featured in this Frick Madison room, reflecting deep cultural interaction in the history of the medium. Photo © Joe Coscia 8-Frick-Selldorf.jpeg The Frick Collection houses more works by American-born James McNeill Whistler than by any other artist. This view shows three of four full-length portraits on display. Photo © Joe Coscia 9-Frick-Selldorf.jpeg This gallery of Italian Renaissance paintings includes work by Veronese (back right wall) as well as Titian. Centrally located is a bronze by Francesco da Sangallo, placed atop a replica of its original base by Factum Arte.  Photo © Joe Coscia