With Its Deep Wraparound Porches and Resilient Design, This South Carolina Senior Housing Project Aims for Comfort and Safety
The Charleston project—designed by David Baker Architects—is clad with aluminum and ipe screens and lime-washed brick. The latter is a favorite throughout historic parts of the city.
https://metropolismag.com/architect…
Horror on the Hudson: New York’s $25bn architectural fiasco
It is a billionaires’ playground where haircuts cost $800 and high-rise duplexes go for $32m. So why do the angular towers of Hudson Yards look so cheap?
https://theguardian.com/artanddesig…
The Rise of the Radical Suburbs
Not all postwar housing developments were monotonous. The inside story of two pioneering and progressive neighborhoods near Boston, and what they tell us about suburbia. My kind of story....
https://architectmagazine.com/desig…
Why the Art and Design Details of Rashid Johnson’s Native Son Matter
This article relates to art and design and how it is used in film. It also happens to be about my good pal Johnny's nephew, Akin!
https://hyperallergic.com/493706/na…
Social Housing: 45 Examples in Plan and Section
Social Housing is a principal element for a more democratic city. These housing structures provide decent dwellings for all citizens in urban areas and connect them to the rest of the city and its services.
https://archdaily.com/913999/social…
Architecture’s Odd Couple, Elizabeth Diller and David Rockwell, Conquer Hudson Yards
Pal Sam Lubell interviews two industry giants.
https://architecturaldigest.com/sto…
At Play in the Fields of the Bored
America’s newest city parks are chock-full of things to do—but what happened to the delights of idle time in a natural setting?
https://theamericanscholar.org/at-p…
Brice Marden, Still True to His Vision
At 80, perseverance drives America’s grand old master painter. More prolific than ever, he says that facing cancer "hasn't made me work any differently. It's just an extra thing to think about."
https://nytimes.com/2019/03/19/arts…
McDonald’s HQ Workplace
Studio O+A + IA Interior Architects.
https://archdaily.com/913452/mcdona…
100 years of Bauhaus: Berlin and beyond
Germany celebrates the centenary of the influential art movement.
https://theguardian.com/travel/2019…
LACMA: Suicide by Architecture
The Zumthor saga continues.
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article…
Hudson Yards Is Manhattan’s Biggest, Newest, Slickest Gated Community. Is This the Neighborhood New York Deserves?
Well it ain't the new Rockefeller Center. Michael Kimmelman on Hudson Yards.
https://nytimes.com/interactive/201…
Drawing Bo Bardi: Barcelona Exhibition Showcases the Architectural and Artistic Designs of Lina Bo Bardi
Lina Bo Bardi Dibuja (Lina Bo Bardi Drawing), curated by artist and scholar Zeuler Lima for the Fundació Joan Miró, showcases around 100 of the Italian-born Brazilian architect's sketches, watercolors, and gouaches.
https://metropolismag.com/architect…
The Waltons Embrace Design Excellence
It may seem like a paradox, but the family that founded Walmart is helping to reshape the Arkansas landscape, to surprising effect.
https://architectmagazine.com/desig…
Winner and Finalists Announced in the “rise in the city” Design Competition for Affordable Housing in Lesotho, Africa
The competition brief sought sustainable designs for a home that could be scaled up so that one family could add extensions, or be replicated as row housing.
http://archnewsnow.com/features/Fea…
Sitting pretty: London transport fabrics over the decades – in pictures
Design matters.
https://theguardian.com/cities/gall…
Overlooked No More: Julia Morgan, Pioneering Female Architect
We've known about her forever. Now thanks to Alexandra Lange so will the rest of the world.
https://nytimes.com/2019/03/06/obit…
How to design the end of a studio’s life
The promising young studio Hawraf is shutting down. The four partners decided to go out by publishing comprehensive documents about how they ran their business.
https://fastcompany.com/90315699/ho…
Arata Isozaki on “Ma,” the Japanese Concept of In-Between Space
Japanese architect and theorist Arata Isozaki’s studio new video series, Time-Space-Existence.
https://archdaily.com/882896/arata-…
Tiny house villages spark interest outside of Seattle—but scrutiny at home
Other cities and counties are studying Seattle’s tiny home model.
https://seattle.curbed.com/2019/2/2…
New York Has a Public Housing Problem. Does London Have an Answer?
Kings Crescent Estate in the Hackney borough of London. Hackney has been upgrading its public housing stock — or what in Britain are called council housing estates.
https://nytimes.com/2019/03/01/arts…
The Lodge at the Presidio Gives Guests A Historic Lodging Experience Overlooking The Golden Gate
The adaptive reuse project, completed by Architectural Resources Group is a hotel housed by the northernmost of five historic 19th-century former military barracks, Building 105, within San Francisco’s Presidio.
https://contractdesign.com/projects…
Ask Kenny
After participating in a panel discussion about messaging I thought it was time to ask some of my pals in communications within the design industry about social media and the digital world.
https://kennethcaldwell.com/ask-ken…
Malls, Talls, and Pseudo-Culture Halls: Hudson Yards’ Failed Urban Forms
More on Hudson Yards.
http://commonedge.org/malls-talls-a…
Dig We Must: What Hudson Yards Gets Wrong
Fred Bernstein's take on Hudson Yards.
https://metropolismag.com/cities/hu…
More on Machine Madness
Aaron Betsky explains why he is less interested in process than in experience.
https://architectmagazine.com/desig…
