The Magic is Back in Birmingham, Part One: Return to the Past
Birmingham.
dbarchitect.com/TheMagicisBackinBir…
Quieting Down and Opening Up at VMware’s Palo Alto Headquarters
Valerio Dewalt Trains talks through reconfiguring and optimizing VMWare’s Palo Alto campus.
https://buildordie.com/vdta-blog/vm…
Balfron 2.0: how Goldfinger’s utopian tower became luxury flats
The sell off of Erno Goldfinger’s landmark building in Poplar is a central element of a new plan to transform London’s East End.
https://theguardian.com/cities/2019…
Why Can’t New York City Build More Gems Like This Queens Library?
The Hunters Point Community Library is one of the finest public buildings New York has produced this century. But it cost more than $40 million, took a decade and almost died.
https://nytimes.com/2019/09/18/arts…
10 Questions With Verda Alexander
Our pal Verda, Studio O+A co-founder and equal parts artist and designer.
https://interiordesign.net/articles…
A↔N: The Architecture-Neuroscience Divide Appears to Be Narrowing
Evidence based design neuroscience for architecture, urbanism & design.
https://commonedge.org/a↔n-the-ar…
Continuing Education Unit: Modular Construction
Our pal Brad Leibin of David Baker Architects is quoted in this piece from Architectural Record.
https://architecturalrecord.com/art…
Finding Partners for Your City’s Affordable Housing Solutions
Collaboration.
https://citiesspeak.org/2019/08/28/…
Column: Chicago shows how public housing and libraries can coexist and be visually stunning. Now we need more of them.
Three new Chicago buildings, which combine public libraries and public housing, are head and shoulders above the Robert Taylor Homes, Cabrini-Green and the rest of the city’s dehumanizing, now-demolished public housing projects.
https://chicagotribune.com/columns/…
Park-topped Transbay transit center pays architectural dividends, past troubles aside
The transit center represents what 21st century urban infrastructure should be — public works that do their job while enhancing the larger public realm.
https://sfchronicle.com/bayarea/art…
For the legendary Alexander Girard, design was in the details
Legendary designer Alexander Girard fused sleek modernism with playful folk art. At Santa Fe’s Museum of International Folk Art, "A Designer's Universe" highlights Girard's breadth of creativity, from mapping a country to devising a language.
https://pbs.org/newshour/show/for-t…
Revising the Midcentury Suburban Ranch House
Kuth Ranieri revamps a modest midcentury house.
https://kuthranieri.com/blog/revisi…
Where are the architects who will put the environment first?
Should we stop building airports? Return to mud and thatch? The climate crisis is an opportunity for creative thinking, but the values of architecture need a radical overhaul.
https://theguardian.com/artanddesig…
Utopia, Abandoned
A time when corporations had some humane objectives.
https://nytimes.com/2019/08/28/t-ma…
‘Abstract Climates’: Helen Frankenthaler’s Ode to Provincetown
Pure beauty.
https://nytimes.com/2019/08/29/arts…
VMware Promontory Campus, Palo Alto
Valerio Dewalt Train renovates VMWare’s headquarters in a five building phased approach.
https://officeinspiration.com/en/of…
A Midcentury Pool Complex in San Francisco Gets a Modern Refresh
Kuth Ranieri Architects and ELS Architecture and Urban Design teamed up for the project, which tailored the aging facility to the needs of its present-day community.
https://metropolismag.com/architect…
Inside Another Paint Colour Expert’s Design Studio
Our pal Jill Pilaroscia gets interviewed.
https://mariakillam.com/inside-anot…
Ikea is quietly changing its brand again—for a very good reason
In the company’s 2020 catalog, Ikea swapped its custom typeface for something much simpler: a Google-designed font called Noto.
https://fastcompany.com/90393259/ik…
Telling the Forgotten Histories of Bauhaus Women
The Bauhaus was founded on the promise of gender equality, but women Bauhauslers had to fight for recognition. A new book recounts the achievements and talents of 45 Bauhaus women.
https://metropolismag.com/design/ba…
Watch Alexander Girard’s designs come to life
The short film made to commemorate Girard’s AIGA medal dips deep into the Herman Miller archives.
https://curbed.com/2019/8/21/208267…
Design is complicit in the border crisis. Some architects are speaking out
Border security is big business, but a group of architects are urging their peers not to work on detention facilities and walls: “It is not the health of buildings that is at stake today, but the health of our society and democracy.”
https://fastcompany.com/90384402/de…
Korean American museum design calls for a lush rooftop garden and a sense of mystery
Pal Sam Lubell checks in on the Korean American Museum.
https://latimes.com/entertainment-a…
The Lodge at the Presidio
Architectural Resources Group in collaboration with Laura Cook Interiors.
https://hospitalitydesign.com/proje…
The Unexpectedly Tropical History of Brutalism
Long associated with European cities, the style has plenty of history in other parts of the world, too. In Brazil, it reached a surprising apotheosis.
https://nytimes.com/2019/08/15/t-ma…
Slack’s new Californian HQ honours the hiking trail that leads to its Vancouver office
Studio O+A explores micro-themes for each floor of Slack's new Californian HQ.
https://frameweb.com/news/studio-o-…
