Getting Under the Hood: Is the TWBTA Renovation Really As Bad As Critics Claim?
The Tod Williams Billie Tsien renovation of the Hood Museum has spurred considerable controversy. But does the proposal truly deserve the criticism it's inspired?
http://metropolismag.com/Getting-Un…
“Is architecture really as guileless as Aravena’s Biennale suggests?”
Mimi Zeiger reviews the Venice Architecture Biennale 2016.
http://dezeen.com/2016/06/01/opinio…
Eight Alternative Careers for Architects
Transitioning to a new vocation isn't as difficult as you might think
http://architectmagazine.com/practi…
Albion Street Residences / Kennerly Architecture & Planning
Owen Kennerly's three new condominiums.
http://archdaily.com/788129/albion-…
Alejandro Aravena’s Venice architecture biennale: ‘We can’t forget beauty in our battles’
The Chilean architect pitches activism against starchitecture and uncovers the architect’s role in drone warefare – leaving Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano distinctly out of place.
https://theguardian.com/artanddesig…
In Union Square, Apple Store is spiffy but plaza needs work
John King on San Francisco's grand new Apple store.
http://sfchronicle.com/bayarea/plac…
Sunset Magazine
Eva Hagberg Fisher checks out Sunset's new offices by RMW.
http://contractdesign.com/projects/…
The Bargain That Revived Bell Labs
A plan to save Eero Saarinen's Bell Labs.
http://architectmagazine.com/design…
Renzo Piano’s Whitney is an architectural “tourist trap”
Matt Shaw takes on the Whitney a year later.
http://archpaper.com/2016/05/renzo-…
Review: SFMoMA’s Expansion Sets a New Standard for Museums
Roberta Smith also wishes the Botta building could have been erased.
http://nytimes.com/2016/05/14/arts/…
Play Ground: how a Dutch landscape architect is reinventing the park
Alexandra Lange on West 8.
http://newyorker.com/magazine/2016/…
How America’s Most Iconic Design Brand Is Planning Its Next Century
Returning, in part, to textile and objects.
http://fastcodesign.com/3059416/how…
Calatrava’s transit hub feels utterly scrubbed of memory and dislocated from New York
Good to see Alan Brake writing for Dezeen.
http://dezeen.com/2016/05/07/opinio…
Story of cities #36: how Copenhagen rejected 1960s modernist ‘utopia’
While concrete was being poured across Europe’s cities, Denmark’s capital found itself at a crossroads: would it follow the car-centric vision of grand boulevards and streets in the sky – or keep its citizen-focused design?
http://theguardian.com/cities/2016/…
At SFMOMA, Stairways to Creative Heaven
Julie Iovine on the addition to SFMOMA.
http://wsj.com/articles/at-sfmoma-s…
Richard Florida on the Enduring Legacy of Jane Jacobs
A good piece for you urbanists out there!
http://commonedge.org/richard-flori…
Whispers of Louis Kahn’s Vision at the Yale Center for British Art
I want to hear the whispers!
http://nytimes.com/2016/05/01/arts/…
SFMOMA’s new extension – a gigantic meringue with a hint of Ikea
Oliver Wainwright weighs in.
http://theguardian.com/artanddesign…
San Jose’s new Whole Foods is one of America’s greenest supermarkets
Whole Foods wins an AIASF Award for Urban Design and a shout out in Inhabitat.
http://inhabitat.com/san-joses-new-…
Discovering Modernism in the Jewel of the Inland Empire
The modernist work of architect, Clare Henry Day.
http://modernistarchitecture.blogsp…
Reviving San Francisco’s Cinema History With A Contemporary Twist: New Mission Theater
Architectural Resources Group revives the New Mission Theater / Alamo Drafthouse Cinema.
https://argsf.com/blog/new-mission-…
