Olafur takes over a residence and edits out most of LA from a house made to view LA. I've had the honor of working with Olafur, and hearing him present his projects to potential clients. In addition to the idea...

The Allianz Arena, a new football stadium in Munich, is almost complete. The main site is here, and the gallery of construction is here. My favorite is picture #7, shown above. The best part: it reminds me of the...

This just in: an inspirational image Thomas Krens has on his office wall, as The Guggenheim continues its global expansion. Title: Think Big!! Branding museums and building them all over the world creates a global institution, space, and collection. What...

Last week, IIT announced that they were auctioning a chance to smash the first pane of glass removed from Crown Hall. The cheekiness of the whole event is nothing short of astounding to me. I am appalled, as if someone...

A week after coming back from Japan, I was invited by a friend to visit MOMA. It was the Wednesday of the week of opening parties, invitation only. I strode onto 53rd Street it as if I knew where I...

The Hearst Tower, Norman Foster's only building in Manhattan, is getting its curtain wall. (I'm not counting the fabulous Asprey store, gorgeous but interior). What struck me on the afternoon I took this was how the glass origami crystal...

When I was young, I played with picture-puzzles. One of these puzzles was a psychedelic composition not unlike something you'd see in Heavy Metal. Each of the pieces was fascinating in and of themselves, because the drawing was so detailed...

Last fall, on my first trip to Tokyo, I lifted the window shade on the plane, nearing the end of a fourteen hour flight, and thought oh. the sky is blue over Japan, too. Never mind that I had no...