Bill Sorro Community by Kennerly Architecture & Planning
200 Sixth Street in San Francisco.
https://dexigner.com/news/30740
The abstract artist taking on Luis Barragán’s famed modernist estate.
Sean Scully converses with Luis Barragán in a new exhibition.
https://wallpaper.com/art/sean-scul…
The Mission 66
Evaluating and rehabilitating Yosemite's midcentury modernist park buildings.
https://argsf.com/blog/mission-66-m…
Remembering Neave Brown
A champion of smart public housing.
https://archpaper.com/2018/02/remem…
Density’s Next Frontier: The Suburbs
According to a new study, the continuing low density of inner suburbs is a major cause of the housing crisis—and a potential solution.
https://citylab.com/equity/2018/02/…
ShanghaiTech University / Moore Ruble Yudell
The new campus for the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
https://archdaily.com/887648/shangh…
Jasper Johns Still Doesn’t Want to Explain His Art
Mr. Johns, who is now 87 and widely regarded as America’s foremost living artist, has a new retrospective at the Broad called “Something Resembling Truth.”
https://nytimes.com/2018/02/07/arts…
Apostle and Apostate: Josef Frank’s Modernist Vision
Left behind in the Internet era is a rich store of essays on design which have limited cultural presence because they are not online.
https://placesjournal.org/article/j…
Getty Assembles Experts for Conservation of Le Corbusier’s Only Three Museums
Le Corbusier's three museums.
https://archdaily.com/888093/getty-…
New book offers fresh look at work of scorned World Trade Center architect
At long last a new book about Yamasaki.
http://chicagotribune.com/news/colu…
San Francisco International Airport-The Big Idea Behind the Big Room at Terminal 1
A Conversation with Kuth Ranieri Architects.
http://kuthranieri.com/blog/san-fra…
2018 Legend: Joan Blumenfeld
Pal Kristen Richards profiles the 2018 Legend Award recipient.
https://contractdesign.com/practice…
The Case for Putting Amazon’s HQ2 in the Suburbs
Will corporations look beyond short term returns?
https://citylab.com/design/2018/01/…
How Design for One Turns Into Design for All
Design with a difference: Details from the exhibition “Access+Ability” at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.
https://nytimes.com/2018/01/24/arts…
Tax Overhaul Leaves Architects Largely Unscathed
In San Francisco, $7 million in federal tax credits helped Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects to transform Fort Mason, a former Army warehouse, into new facilities for the San Francisco Art Institute.
https://architecturalrecord.com/art…
Architecture is facing its own award-season controversy
Chris Hawthorne finds a few buildings for the 25-year Award.
http://latimes.com/entertainment/ar…
Obama center plans won’t destroy Olmsted’s park — they should be improved, not rejected
Meanwhile back in Chicago.
http://chicagotribune.com/news/colu…
Michael Ford the “hip-hop architect”
Kanye West, Pharrell Williams, Solange Knowles promote diversity in architecture.
https://dezeen.com/2018/01/23/kanye…
Dogpatch’s jumble of styles suits once-industrial neighborhood just fine
John King checks in from Dogwatch.
https://sfchronicle.com/bayarea/pla…
The women designers who made Herman Miller furniture shine
Sizzling graphics, bright colors, and bold juxtapositions
https://curbed.com/2018/1/19/169104…
Design Within Reach
Alexandra Lange on the new show at the Cooper Hewitt.
https://curbed.com/2018/1/18/169005…
John King on San Francisco, Oakland, and the Challenge of Affordable Housing
A couple of design pals talking about our corner of the world.
http://commonedge.org/john-king-on-…
