The Slow Death of a Brutalist Vision for Buffalo
Architect Paul Rudolph had an ambitious plan for Buffalo's waterfront, but it was only ever partly realized. Today, proof of it is beginning to disappear.
http://citylab.com/housing/2015/06/…
How Teddy Cruz is Reimagining the American Dream
Teddy Cruz thinks we've got suburbia all wrong. He has a new way of developing cities, and he's drawing inspiration from an unlikely place just across the border from his home in San Diego.
http://politico.com/magazine/video/…
ÉCAL students take over Apartment N°50 at Le Corbusier’s Cité Radieuse
Students from Swiss university ÉCAL are the latest designers to refit an apartment in Le Corbusier's Cité Radieuse housing block in Marseille.
http://dezeen.com/2015/06/12/ecal-s…
Glass House Landscape: A “Permanent Camping Trip” for Architect Philip Johnson by Betsy Gleick
Architecture and landscaping, Johnson once said, are "one art." At his own home, the Glass House in New Canaan, Conn., where he lived for almost 60 years until his death in 2005, he deliberately made the walls between the two virtually invisible. We got permission to photograph the secluded 49-acre property at dawn.
http://gardenista.com/posts/glass-h…
When Albers Met Saarinen Alexander Gorlin Reimagines An Eero Saarinen Landmark
The adaptive reuse of the great Bell Laboratories.
http://interiordesign.net/projects/…
Video: Tadao Ando on Designing His First New York Building
“A living space should be a sanctuary. It has to be a place where you can reflect on your life.” – Tadao Ando
http://archdaily.com/639999/video-t…
Wildwood: The East Coast Capital of Googie… uh, I mean Doo-Wop
This is just so groovy!
http://modernistarchitecture.blogsp…
Culture by Design: Lessons From Today’s Tech Workplaces
Huntsman Architectural Group president, Sascha Wagner on modern tech workplaces.
http://nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/contrac…
Uber Eleventh Floor
“This eleventh floor is the more rebellious cousin of the Uber headquarters,” says Denise Cherry, principal at Studio O+A.
http://contractdesign.com/projects/…
California housing by Leddy Maytum Stacy addresses the needs of residents with autism
Designing for autism.
http://dezeen.com/2015/06/05/califo…
Visualizing Architecture
Some notes by Fred A. Bernstein.
http://designobserver.com/article.p…
The Fascinating Science Of Aesthetics
Your preferences for everything from filtered photos to the color blue may be rooted in biology.
http://fastcodesign.com/3047003/evi…
Charles Correa’s crystalline Islamic centre joins the Aga Khan Museum in a Toronto park
Indian firm Charles Correa Associates designed the Ismaili Centre in partnership with local studio Moriyama & Teshima Architects to provide a cultural centre for the Islamic community.
http://dezeen.com/2015/06/04/charle…
Robert Rauschenberg Endless Combinations
A source material, for Rauschenberg, could have been almost anything. Among the most prolific and consistently surprising American artists, he worked for over 50 years in a variety of media from feathers, stuffed goats, socks and neckties to cardboard, grass and scrap metal, in genres including choreography, costume design, photography, printmaking and painting.
http://nytimes.com/2015/06/03/t-mag…
Inside the Getty’s Initiative to Save Modern Architecture
Projects at the Salk Institute and Eames House are part of a larger effort to preserve our midcentury heritage.
http://architectmagazine.com/techno…
‘Latin America in Construction: Architecture 1955-1980’ Review
Developmentalism was the movement to modernize the entire South American continent and respond to a tidal population shift to living in cities.
http://wsj.com/articles/latin-ameri…
“Women were unwelcome in architecture, but male architects couldn’t live without them”
An exhibition at New York's Museum of Arts and Design about women's role in postwar Modernism highlights the uneasy gender imbalance between craft and industrial design, says Alexandra Lange.
http://dezeen.com/2015/05/12/alexan…
How Paris Is Trying to Fix One of the Worst Planning Decisions It Ever Made
The city is erecting a grandiose glass canopy over one of its most contested sites as part of a new culture and shopping complex.
http://citylab.com/design/2015/05/p…
Keeping Up With the Built Environment According to Kristen Richards
http://built.philau.edu/keeping-up-…
Herzog & de Meuron’s Bordeaux Stadium Is Framed By A Forest Of Slender Columns
Herzog & de Meuron has completed a monumental new stadium in Bordeaux framed by 900 slim white columns, one of the key venues for next year's Euro football championship.
http://dezeen.com/2015/05/21/herzog…
Shigeru Ban, the Architect Who Reshapes Disaster Zones
After helping disaster survivors in Japan, Rwanda, India, and Sri Lanka, the architect Shigeru Ban will next use his building expertise to aid those affected by Nepal’s deadly earthquakes.
http://thedailybeast.com/articles/2…
SANAA Wins AGNSW’s Sydney Modern Design Competition
Pritzker Prize Laureates Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, of Japanese practice SANAA, have emerged victorious from an international design competition for the expansion of Art Gallery of NSW, also known as Sydney Modern.
http://architectureau.com/articles/…
Sea Ranch Is 50: Kenneth Caldwell Looks At The History And Future Of the Iconic California Site
After decades of visiting Sea Ranch I finally write something about it...
http://blog.archpaper.com/2015/05/s…
National Theatre / Haworth Tompkins
From the architect. Haworth Tompkins announces the completion of NT Future, an £80m refurbishment of the National Theatre on London’s South Bank. Opened in 1976, the NT is one of Britain’s most important 20th century buildings, and arguably the masterpiece of architect Sir Denys Lasdun.
http://archdaily.com/633112/nationa…
Stop the presses: Paul Goldberger’s take on critical relevance in the social media age
In architecture, the rise of the 21st century media landscape has created connective tissue where none used to exist: the day-to-day work of architecture used to be relatively obscure, and now it is spotlighted and deconstructed regularly.
http://archinect.com/features/artic…
Brick Bungalows Provide Social Housing For Elderly Residents In East London
I would live here.
http://dezeen.com/2015/05/01/barkin…
