Pacific Pointe Development
New 100-percent-affordable apartment complex takes root on remediated land in San Francisco.
https://archpaper.com/2017/05/pacif…
Vitra’s Raphael Gielgen Predicts Our Workplace Future
In conversation with our editors, Raphael Gielgen, head of research and trend scouting at Vitra, discusses how identity and technology will shape the offices of tomorrow.
http://metropolismag.com/interiors/…
Gaudí’s Casa Vicens to Reopen as Museum
A must see beginning in the fall!
http://architectmagazine.com/design…
Meet the Flower Bandit Turning NYC Trash Cans into Giant Bouquets
The world will be saved by beauty.
https://domino.com/lewis-miller-flo…
Building the Future of Retail
The leaders of ELS’s retail studio got together to talk about the trends they’re seeing.
http://elsarch.com/building-future-…
How to Bring More Artists Into City Planning
Mary Miss has worked at the intersection of sculpture, public installation, and landscape design for decades, and she believes that artists are a resource city agencies aren’t tapping effectively.
https://nextcity.org/daily/entry/in…
One-on-One: Interview with Vito Acconci
In this never-before published Q&A from 2015, the late Acconci revealed his highly personal way of imagining his architecture as a pursuit of creating a total work of art that is at once poetry and architecture.
http://archnewsnow.com/features/Fea…
Historian honors Detroit architect in new book
Wirt Rowland and the Rise of Modern American Architecture.
http://greatlakesecho.org/2017/05/1…
Their Public Housing at the End of Its Life, Residents Ask: What Now?
Cairo, Ill., has a population of fewer than 3,000 people. A plan to demolish two public housing developments would force many residents to leave and cut the school enrollment in half.
https://nytimes.com/2017/05/17/us/c…
MASS in Context
Innovative nonprofit MASS Design Group has taken on the status quo and become undisputed leaders in public interest architecture worldwide. As the firm approaches the 10-year mark, it’s aiming even higher, bringing its model of purpose-driven design back home and to a broader audience.
http://architectmagazine.com/design…
Building Madness: How the Boom and Bust Mentality Distorts Architecture
Only architects are psychologically validated by booms and crushed by busts
http://commonedge.org/building-madn…
Local History: Donald Judd Furniture
The development and production of Donald Judd’s furniture resulted partially from necessity.
http://juddfoundation.org/article/l…
Vernacular Modernism: 7 Contemporary Homes in Rural Mexico
Eye candy.
https://architizer.com/blog/rural-m…
Multifamily visionary: The life and work of architect David Baker
For 35 years, architect David Baker has been a spirited voice for affordable housing, in San Francisco and beyond.
https://bdcnetwork.com/multifamily-…
Elizabeth Gordon’s International Style
Connecting the dots.
https://curbed.com/2017/5/10/155926…
Peter Zumthor Interview
Swiss architect Peter Zumthor has attracted a cult following over his five-decade career, but kept a famously low profile in the media. He spoke to Dezeen about trying to dispel his mysterious reputation by taking cues from media-shy tennis star Roger Federer.
https://dezeen.com/2017/05/12/peter…
The 2016 Architect 50: The Top Firm in Design
Marlon Blackwell Architects: "This Is Design with Conviction."
http://architectmagazine.com/practi…
U.S. Pavilion Presents Mark Bradford’s ‘Tomorrow Is Another Day’ At The Venice Art Biennale
Following its debut in Venice, Mark Bradford: Tomorrow Is Another Day will be on view at The Baltimore Museum of Art from September 2018 - January 2019.
http://designboom.com/art/us-pavili…
Column: Tower at Obama center (don’t call it a library) needs tweaking
Blair Kamin critiques Tod Williams and Billie Tsien's design for the Obama Presidential Center.
http://chicagotribune.com/news/colu…
Socialism and Nationalism on the Danube
Vienna and Budapest can be viewed as battlefields in an unfolding European crisis of identity and confidence.
https://placesjournal.org/article/s…
A Secret History Of Selling Out: How Designers Reluctantly Embraced The Corporate World
How designers and corporations became uneasy bedfellows.
https://fastcodesign.com/90124710/a…
One Big Problem With Obama’s Presidential Library
Carving out space in Olmsted-designed Jackson Park for Obama’s presidential library misses an opportunity—and sets a bad precedent.
https://citylab.com/design/2017/05/…
Nine More Alternative Careers for Architects
For designers looking for a different profession without significant retraining or time off work, here are several opportunities and success stories.
http://architectmagazine.com/practi…
Ellsworth Kelly’s Studio, Just as He Left It
“Ellsworth Kelly: Last Paintings” is on view at the Matthew Marks Gallery on West 22nd Street, in New York, through June 24. His last, unfinished canvas had been gessoed, but not yet painted, when he died at the age of 92.
https://nytimes.com/2017/05/05/arts…
Studio O+A: Twelve True Tales of Workplace Design
Check out the new book from Studio O + A!
https://dexigner.com/news/30100
Hunters View Housing Blocks 5 & 6
Paulett Taggart Architects.
http://archdaily.com/870040/hunters…
