The top 10 architecture and design events of 2017
News from the other side of the pond.
https://theguardian.com/artanddesig…
Tod Williams And Billie Tsien Dallas Home Tour
A modern architecture lover taps Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects to build her dream house in Dallas.
https://curbed.com/2017/12/12/16731…
This Designer Quit His Federal Job. Now He’s Working To Elect More Women
The website Project 100 aims to get 100 women elected to Congress.
https://fastcodesign.com/90154069/p…
London’s new US embassy: a very diplomatic America on Thames
London’s new US embassy may be just a glass cube with disguised fortifications, but it is also restrained, efficient, green… the antithesis of Donald Trump.
https://theguardian.com/artanddesig…
From Brownfields to a New Transit-Oriented Downtown
David Baker Architect's modular development in Northern California.
https://urbanland.uli.orgelopment-b…
How 5 Technology Companies in NYC Are Incorporating Design Into Their Workspaces
Pal Primo Orpilla gets a shout-out in the Huffington Post.
https://huffingtonpost.com/entry/ho…
Paul Goldberger Reflects on Vincent Scully’s Legacy
Paul Goldberger on the passing of Vincent Scully.
https://architecturalrecord.com/art…
9 Things You Might Not Know About Landscape Architect Dan Kiley’s Enduring Milwaukee Legacies
A local (Milwaukee) piece on Dan Kiley.
https://milwaukeemag.com/landscape-…
Richard Rogers’ Wimbledon House Gets a New Lease on Life
22 Parkside, the experimental London home architect Richard Rogers designed for his parents in the late 1960s, has been converted to a research and event space.
http://metropolismag.com/architectu…
Richard Meier on the Getty Center as it turns 20
The Getty at Twenty. Chris Hawthorne talks to Richard Meier.
http://latimes.com/entertainment/ar…
Potrero 1010 Combines Mixed-Income With Neighborhood-Serving Space in San Francisco
David Baker Architects designs a new infill concept for a public–private partnership.
http://multifamilyexecutive.com/des…
After the fires, the Monterey Design Conference offers a chance for reflection
Your loyal correspondent reports on the Monterey Design Conference.
https://archpaper.com/2017/11/natur…
Off the Grid on Hawaii Island
Pal Lianne Yu discovers some Hawaiians living off the grid. There might be more models there than we think.
http://hawaiibusiness.com/off-the-g…
Publicity Stunt? “Working-Class Theme Park?” Questions Loom for the V&A’s Three-Story Robin Hood Gardens Fragment
The Victoria & Albert Museum is preserving a three-story chunk of the Peter and Alison Smithson–designed Robin Hood Gardens housing project.
http://metropolismag.com/architectu…
Pop-Up Placemaking: SPARC-It-Place
Brad Leibin on Interim Use.
http://dbarchitect.com/us/news_blog…
Column: Fighting to save the Thompson Center with a movie camera
Advocating for saving a PoMo building! What has the world come to? But this is one worth saving.
http://chicagotribune.com/news/colu…
The first issue of Ed, Archinect’s new print journal
After 20 years of publishing only digitally Archinect's publishes a print mag.
https://archinect.com/news/article/…
Creating Streets People Can Identify With
Ryan Call on the street(s).
https://elsarch.com/wp/wp-content/u…
Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s Wrapped Delights, Real and Imagined
“Christo and Jeanne-Claude. Urban Projects” opened last month and runs through February 2018.
https://nytimes.com/2017/11/13/arts…
Tradition for Sale
With their new architecture, universities all too often abdicate leadership in promoting artistic innovation as they pander to plutocratic donors.
https://placesjournal.org/article/t…
Top architecture reads for the October Revolution’s 100th anniversary
Architecture and Revolution from Matt Shaw.
https://archpaper.com/2017/10/top-a…
