Designboom Visits Renzo Piano Building Workshop In Paris
On a recent visit to the French capital, Designboom visited the renowned italian architect’s studio and model making workshop to get a behind-the-scenes look at where RPBW’s architectural development takes place.
http://designboom.com/architecture/…
The Glorious Landscape Design Of Dan Kiley
The prolific landscape architect's work is on display at New York's Center For Architecture.
http://fastcodesign.com/3044027/exp…
The Circus Comes to Town in Silicon Valley
Columnist Aaron Betsky evaluates three megaprojects currently underway in Silicon Valley for tech giants Apple, Facebook, and Google.
http://architectmagazine.com/design…
Yodelay-hee-what?
Thom Mayne designs an Empire State-sized tower for a Swiss village.
http://archrecord.construction.com/…
Can Oregon’s Tiny Houses Be Part Of The Solution To Homelessness?
Since 1950, the American family home has become two and a half times larger, even as fewer people on average are living in them. Is it time to downsize?
http://theguardian.com/society/2015…
Grape Expectations: Historic Wineries in Northern California Wine Country
Grand ambitions make for a dramatic history -- and a dynamic present -- at some of Northern California's oldest wineries.
http://preservationnation.org/magaz…
Page\Park Wins Competition to Rebuild Mackintosh’s Glasgow School of Art
Page\Park Architects have been announced as winner of a competition to restore Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s Glasgow School of Art (GSA). The Scottish practice, chosen ahead of four other shortlisted architects, will now develop plans to restore the building’s library and all other areas devastated by fire in May of last year.
http://archdaily.com/614840/page-pa…
A Major Influence
Architect A. Quincy Jones’ work is familiar to many people, even if few know the name behind the thousands of homes, churches, educational centers, and commercial structures that flowed out of his office.
http://palmspringslife.com/Palm-Spr…
Striking Photographs of Baltimore’s Mechanic Theatre Demolition
Over several months, photographer Matthew Carbone documented the fall of the 1967 structure by John Johansen.
http://architectmagazine.com/design…
Editorial > It’s The Client, Stupid
Sam Lubell asks architects to widen their focus, not fight over style.
http://archpaper.com/news/articles.…
Crit > Princeton Train Station
Rick Joy's design for a commuter rail station in Princeton is endowed with civic importance and a sense of grace.
http://archpaper.com/news/articles.…
The Art Of Design: Q+A With MoMA’s Paola Antonelli
Undeniably one of the most important people in design today, Paola Antonelli is MoMA’s (Museum of Modern Art) senior curator in the Department of Architecture and Design.
http://australiandesignreview.com/f…
Exhibition on “The Russian Bauhaus” Illustates the Birth of Modernism
By the 1920s, airplane travel had made art and architecture a global profession, at least in the dissemination and cross-contamination of ideas. All over the globe, colonialism and otherwise globalized commissions were spreading modernism and other sociopolitical systems around the world. These intellectual histories make for fascinating tales that reveal a secondary history behind some of our favorite designers and design icons.
http://architizer.com/blog/vkhutema…
Pierre Paulin: Beyond Pop
A revival of interest in the iconic 1960s and ’70s work of the French designer has revealed an artist whose career was more varied and extensive than most realize.
http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/…
James Beard Foundation Announces Six Nominees in Restaurant Design
The awards for Restaurant Design, which were added to the JBF Awards in 1994, recognize aesthetic contributions to the culinary industry by architects and designers in North America.
http://architectmagazine.com/design…
Nueva School In California Explores Architecture’s Role In Learning
San Francisco-based Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects designed the Nueva School in San Mateo in a way which offers an "ecology of learning" and addresses the issue of architecture's role in learning.
http://inhabitat.com/nueva-school-i…
Frei Otto’s Lightness Of Being
In recent years, the announcement of the Pritzker Prize has fueled as much debate about the prize itself and about the state of the architecture profession as it has about the merits of the winners. This year was no exception.
http://landscapearchitecturemagazin…
Age of the Modern Home
New England’s modern house museums experience a surge of interest.
http://artnewengland.com/ed_picks/a…
To What Will Pullman Be a Monument?
Columnist Aaron Betsky reacts to the recent designation of Pullman, Ill., as a national landmark.
http://architectmagazine.com/design…
Peter Zumthor’s Plan For LACMA Undergoes Makeover
Swiss architect Peter Zumthor's lastest design for a new Los Angeles County Museum of Art is less curvy and incorporates double-height galleries that will extend beyond the roofline.
http://latimes.com/entertainment/ar…
A Rare Interview With Graphic Design Legend Massimo Vignelli
From 2006, the late designer shares the story behind his infamous New York subway map and why typographic elegance will prevail.
http://fastcodesign.com/3044133/a-r…
Empty gestures: Starchitecture’s Swan Song
Architecture must move on from pandering to preposterous concepts in an adolescent search for momentary excitement. But to do this will require a more critical perspective from architectural academe and the media.
http://architectural-review.com/ess…
25 Ideas Shaping The Future Of Design
What the landscape of design will look like in 2020, according to the most innovative designers of 2015.
http://fastcodesign.com/3043624/25-…
Bolling Building An Architectural Gem In Roxbury
The Ferdinand building in Dudley Square, built in 1901, has been restored as part of new Bruce C. Bolling Municipal Building in Roxbury.
https://bostonglobe.com/arts/2015/0…
The iF Design Award Honors The Top 10 Interior Architecture Projects Of 2015
http://designboom.com/architecture/…
What Does It Take for an Architect to Disown a Project?
http://architizer.com/blog/architec…
