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…
Matali Crasset Colorfully Renovates French School With ‘Tiny Architectures’
The design of an educational space is fundamental in encouraging a child’s growth in learning, their creativity and imagination. In Matali Crasset‘s recent project, the french designer has revitalized and reorganized the Blé En Herbe School, located in the quaint village of Trébedan in Brittany.
http://designboom.com/architecture/…
Touring the Modern Architecture of Fire Island’s Pines
Ever since architect Christopher Bascom Rawlins finished Fire Island Modernist: Horace Gifford and the Architecture of Seduction (Metropolis Books/Gordon de Vries Studio, 2013) he has been wondering what to do with the wealth of material he accumulated.
http://curbed.com/archives/2015/08/…
“When I Said Architects Should Get Involved In Humanitarian Issues, People Laughed At Me”
Exclusive interview: Architecture for Humanity co-founder Cameron Sinclair describes the work he is conducting in Syria with his latest venture, and tells Dezeen that he'll "die happy" knowing that he will never win the Pritzker Prize.
http://dezeen.com/2015/08/27/camero…
L.A.’s Architecture + Design Museum Rethinks Housing
For the first exhibition in its newly minted facility, A+D commissions architects to propose new ways to shelter the city.
http://archrecord.construction.com/…
Beyer Blinder Belle Restoring Marcel Breuer’s Whitney Building For 2016 Reopening Under The Metropolitan Museum
The Met Breuer will throw open its doors in March 2016 for the first season of contemporary art programming under the banner of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Breuer’s iconic building, formerly the Whitney Museum of American Art, is currently being “invigorated by renovations that will support a fluid, integrated experience of art and architecture,” as the Met’s press release proudly declares.
http://blog.archpaper.com/2015/08/b…
“Postmodernism Will Not Be Forgiven Lightly For What It Did To Architectural Culture”
Pomo summer: Postmodernism is still shaping contemporary architecture, says Owen Hatherley, but its impact on social housing is an unforgivable legacy.
http://dezeen.com/2015/08/20/postmo…
Architecture’s King of Tradition
Robert A. M. Stern sees himself as a vessel for old principles of American urbanism in a field too often swept up by novelty.
http://newyorker.com/culture/cultur…
The Finnish Touch: Contemporary Architecture From Finland
Last weekend, August 7–9, the 13th triennial Alvar Aalto Symposium took place in the Finnish architect's hometown of Jyväskylä, a few hours north of Helsinki. Founded in 1979, the event is not about the legacy of its namesake but rather the future of the profession the world over, and this edition included speakers from China, Brazil, and India, alongside local architects and several others.
http://architizer.com/blog/contempo…
In Japan, History Has No Place
Despite its reverence for tradition, Japan has an ambivalent — and unsentimental — relationship with its Modernist architecture. Why preparing for the future sometimes means destroying the past.
http://nytimes.com/2015/08/11/t-mag…
Q+A: Charles Birnbaum, President and CEO of The Cultural Landscape Foundation
The founder of the Washington, D.C.–based foundation discusses the ongoing design competition for a new World War I memorial at the existing Pershing Park, and how the submissions threaten the integrity of the site.
http://architectmagazine.com/design…
The Quiet Revolution In British Housing
Architects are fighting back. After their cause was hampered by the ill-conceived high-rises of the 60s and 70s, followed by the dire ‘traditional’ building of the Thatcher era, imaginative and sustainable housing is in the ascendant.
http://theguardian.com/artanddesign…
John Puttick Associates Wins Competition Cor £13 Million Preston Bus Station Overhaul
New York practice John Puttick Associates has won the competition to redevelop the Brutalist 1960s bus station in Preston, England, with a design that features a rooftop football pitch, a climbing wall and a skate park.
http://dezeen.com/2015/08/17/john-p…
Open Call: Redesign the Burning Man City Plan
Open to all internationally, the competition seeks a new city plan that will fit within the existing pentagonal boundaries of the event space, and that will center The Man and The Temple at its focus. Designs should additionally incorporate large open spaces to accommodate art installations, as well as ample camping space.
http://archdaily.com/771869/open-ca…
Miró Foundation’s Sculptural Roof Informs Typography For 40th Anniversary
The distinctive shapes of Catalan architect Josep Lluís Sert's Joan Miró Foundation building in Barcelona are interpreted as a set of graphic symbols in celebration of the organisation's four decades of operation.
http://dezeen.com/2015/08/13/joan-m…
Zen and the Art of Dying Well
What if the most promising way to fix the system is to actually do less for the dying? That’s what the not-for-profit Zen Hospice Project has been trying to prove through a fascinating, small-scale experiment in San Francisco’s Hayes Valley neighborhood.
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.co…
Cai Guo-Qiang Sends Flaming Sky Ladder Soaring 500 Meters In The Air
Off the shore of Huiyu island — a small and picturesque fishing village the Chinese city of Quanzhou — artist Cai Guo-Qiang has realized the explosion event ‘sky ladder’ in his hometown, a project he has attempted three times over the past 21 years.
http://designboom.com/art/cai-guo-q…
Restoring Eileen Gray’s E-1027
Gray's seaside retreat survived Le Corbusier's act of vandalism and decades of neglect. Now this midcentury icon shines again.
http://architectmagazine.com/design…
