From Armed Forces to Arts Enthusiasts: Fort Mason Center’s Pier 2
San Francisco’s Fort Mason Center's $21 million rehabilitation and seismic upgrade.
http://urbanland.uli.org/planning-d…
Broad Museum: Diller Scofidio + Renfro
L.A. Screenplay: An art museum lifts its perforated veil, revealing the repository for its vast holdings.
http://archrecord.construction.com/…
Feilden Fowles Plans Rammed-Earth Visitors’ Centre For Yorkshire Sculpture Park
London architecture studio Feilden Fowles has revealed plans for a visitors' centre with rammed-earth walls in Europe's largest modern and contemporary sculpture park. Due for completion in 2017.
http://dezeen.com/2015/09/02/feilde…
Critique: Inside Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s Broad Museum
Joseph Giovannini discovers that DS+R's new project stands up to its much vaunted neighbor.
http://architectmagazine.com/design…
Naked Cities
The death and life of urban America.
http://newyorker.com/magazine/2015/…
Dismaland To Be Taken Down And Sent To Calais To Build Shelters
Banksy said his ‘bemusement park’ is to be dismantled and timber used to build shelters for migrants near French port. An estimated 5,000 people displaced from countries including Syria, Libya and Eritrea are believed to be camped in and around the French port.
http://theguardian.com/artanddesign…
US Firm Announces Plans To Open “The Bauhaus Of Africa”
MASS Design Group, a nonprofit US firm, plans to start an architecture and design training centre in Kigali, Rwanda, to help address the "dearth of professional designers" across Africa.
http://dezeen.com/2015/09/24/mass-d…
Affordable Housing Energizes San Francisco’s Mission Bay
In San Francisco, a city famous for its beloved neighborhoods—but infamous for its astronomical cost of living—the development of a new neighborhood on a brownfield site proved to be a rare opportunity to address a housing shortage that has displaced low-income households and threatens the city’s cultural and economic diversity.
http://urbanland.uli.org/economy-ma…
LA’s Broad Museum: A Downtown Destination Fit for the Instagram Age
In this edition of Alexandra Lange's monthly column, she journeys west to ogle the brand new Broad Museum in Los Angeles.
http://curbed.com/archives/2015/09/…
Nonprofit Youth Organization and Market-Rate Housing Share a Site in San Francisco’s Hayes Valley
The Boys & Girls Clubs of San Francisco (BGCSF), a nonprofit organization that offers young people afterschool programs, wanted to replace its outdated 1950s-era clubhouse in the Haight district with a new one closer to the populations it serves. A parcel in the city’s Hayes Valley neighborhood, on Fulton Street, had been freed up after the Central Freeway was torn down. The city sold it to the BGCSF with the agreement that a portion of it would be used for housing.
http://urbanland.uli.org/economy-ma…
Zaha Hadid: from Baghdad to global ubiquity (and the RIBA gold medal)
One of the most sought-after architects in the world, Iraqi-born London-based Hadid is first woman to be awarded prestigious Riba gong in her own right.
http://theguardian.com/artanddesign…
The Architecture of Liminal Spaces
Columnist Aaron Betsky re-examines public spaces, and the roles of architects and citizens in shaping them.
http://architectmagazine.com/design…
Can Big Data Bridge The Gap Between Biophilia Hypothesis And Spatial Design
Biophilic design at a fundamental level, it is the adoption and conceptualization of principles we find in nature into building and landscape design that many studies have shown to increase occupant wellbeing. Biophilia is a tricky construct to convey, let alone capture in a design. Somewhere between a social science and life science, biophilia – an instinctive bond between ourselves and living systems – poses a unique challenge but also holds many opportunities – from competitive advantage to supporting human health.
http://terrapinbrightgreen.com/blog…
Robin Day’s Works in Wood Displayed On Assemble’s “Forest” Of Columns At The V&A
London Design Festival 2015: an exhibition designed by Turner Prize-nominated architecture collective Assemble at the V&A museum celebrates the heritage of late British furniture designer Robin Day.
http://dezeen.com/2015/09/22/robin-…
The Problem With The Broad Is The Collection Itself
The newly built museum in Los Angeles recaptures the spiritual drama of the monumental museums of yesteryear.
https://washingtonpost.com/entertai…
Winds Of Change At Dyson
Can the pioneering vacuum maker transform itself into a full-blown tech company? An exclusive peek inside the house that suction built.
http://fastcodesign.com/3050256/inn…
Experiencing Architecture Through ‘Hippie Modernism’ and Retrospectives
In 1965, four artists bought seven acres in southeastern Colorado, intending to make live-in works of art. Their communal project came to be known as Drop City, where residents lived in zonohedron domes of their own creation, sometimes constructed of automobile roofs and other scavenged materials.
http://nytimes.com/2015/09/13/arts/…
An Interview with David Weeks
Based in New York, David Weeks creates objects through a sculptural, artistic approach. Most famous for his lighting fixtures, he captures a modern feel with an artist’s hand-crafted touch. Kelly Waters sat down with David to catch up on his work, thoughts, and Tribeca studio.
http://o-plus-a.com/an-interview-wi…
SOS Children’s Village In Djibouti / Urko Sanchez Architects
From the architect. Djibouti is located in the Horn of Africa, which suffers from persistent droughts and severe scarcities. We were approached by SOS Kinderdorf to design a residential compound of 15 houses where to run their family-strengthening programmes.
http://archdaily.com/773319/sos-chi…
Silicon Valley Reinvents the Mall
As malls die off around the country, and more people shop online, new shopping center models are desperately needed. In Silicon Valley, the source of so much game-changing innovation, the mall appears to be the next format to get a reboot. “Starchitect” Rafael Viñoly and landscape architects at OLIN are transforming Cupertino’s struggling mall into the 50-acre Hills at Vallco, a hybrid retail, commercial, and residential hub, all covered in what they promise will be the “world’s largest green roof.”
http://dirt.asla.org/2015/09/03/sil…
Irving Harper, Creator of the Marshmallow Sofa, Dies at 99
Irving Harper, who pioneered Pop Art furniture design with whimsical mid-20th-century modernist classics like the marshmallow sofa, the ball clock and the sunburst clock, died on Aug. 4 at his home in Rye, N.Y. He was 99.
http://nytimes.com/2015/09/10/arts/…
At UC Berkeley, Once Out-Of-Fashion Lower Sproul Plaza Gets A Remodel
John King returns to his alma mater, where out-of-fashion Lower Sproul Plaza gets a remodel.
http://sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti…
Talmon Biran Architecture Composes Immersive, Interactive Zen Garden In Quebec
At the international garden festival in Quebec, Canada, Tel Aviv-based studio Talmon Biran Architecture have realized ‘around-about’ — a ‘dry landscape’ installation informed by the concept of Japanese zen gardens.
http://designboom.com/art/talmon-bi…
Prairiefire: A Mixed-Use Center Meets T. Rex
Rob Anderson (Field Paoli) and Fred Merrill (Merrill Companies, LLC) discuss developing a mixed-use center in Kansas's, Overland Park.
http://urbanland.uli.org/planning-d…
Survey Results: Homophobia Remains Rife In Construction Industry
Exclusive: A new pan-industry survey of the experiences of lesbian, gay and bisexual employees reveals an ‘outdated’ approach to diversity. More than 80 per cent of gay men and women in some parts of the industry encountering homophobic comments in the workplace.
http://architectsjournal.co.uk/news…
Review: The new Broad museum, though efficiently designed, really only comes alive on the periphery
The newest addition to this uneven parade of high-rises, cultural buildings and still-empty parcels is the Broad, a $140-million museum of modern and contemporary art set to open Sept. 20 at the corner of Grand and 2nd Street.
http://latimes.com/entertainment/ar…
