The park at 55 Water Street, designed by Rogers Marvel Architects and Ken Smith Workshop, will receive a MASterwork award from The Municipal Arts Society of New York Tuesday, April 4, at 7 WTC (also receiving an award). The...
We point you to 15 Best Skylines in the World for two reasons. First, we are encyclopedic compeletists who are easily seduced by pretty pictures and who love lists, even if the lists are willfully incomplete. Second, we live...
Given our penchant for Flickr these days, it will come as no surprise that we are intrigued by the Open Source House. It is the senior thesis of Rahm Rechtschaffen, a student in architecture at Catholic University in Washington...
The new de Young Museum of Art in San Francisco by Herzog and De Meuron is an experience of unfolding, revealing a range of unexpected and captivating spaces. The building cannot be understood by a single vantage point, but...
In case you missed the press release, the Friends of the High Line are having a reservations-only groundbreaking on Monday, April 10, 2006, from 12:00 noon - 1:30 PM. Light refreshments will be available at Little West 12th Street...
You are not going to believe this, but 2 Columbus Circle, the much-argued-about renovation (or preservation! depending on who you ask) project designed by Allied Works, is happening because there is a tenant who bought the building and needs...
Your Hidden City was such a success (over 1,000 entries) the judging has been ongoing. My fellow jurors and I are kicking back and forth on the winners, which will be announced when...they are announced. We're going to commit...
Land+Living points us to the folks at MVRDV, who have created a massive housing complex for Liuzhou, China. It's gorgeous, in the way Le Corbusier's urban plan for Algiers was gorgeous: it is sublime. On the scale of an...
Some buildings acquire so much affection, they show up in films again and again. Here a lovely bungalow for a mad scientist; there a lovely bungalow floating in, er, outer space. We are equally enamored of sites like mirage.studio.7,...
JG Ballard, the novelist who wrote one of our favorite books (Concrete Island, of course), has extended his concrete reverie to discuss modern architecture directly. The article is a familiar love note to the bygone era of early Modernist...
Our friends at LVHRD are hosting Architect Duel II. This time around it is Arquitectonica versus Grzywinski Pons Architects. While our experience shows us that sometimes inspired moments in architectural design come late in the design process, after months...
We Make Money Not Art has an informative interview with Oliver Hess, the force behind materials experimentation projects like last year's Maximilian's Schell in Los Angeles (pictured). A must-read....
We are breaking our rule about not posting about posts about Tropolism for this: we apparently have coined a name for a whole movement. Viva El Tropolismo! Picture by sgoralnick, from the Tropolism Flickr pool....
The Los Angeles Times is reporting on an open competition for the cornfield site east of Downtown Los Angeles. Historically a train yard, and most recently an installation by Lauren Bon called Not A Cornfield which, of course, was...
The New York Times' architecture critic, Nicolai Ourosoff, has diverged from his building profile in his latest article: he interviews an architect. And, one of our favorite architects, Teddy Cruz, who we first learned about when we heard him...
Submissions for the Your Hidden City project end today at 5pm Eastern Standard Time. Click here to read the details on how to post. After 5pm, the estimable jury will judge the photos and select winners in the following...
While we've always thought that "Critical Regionalism" was a construct of architectural historians (ever since I was in one of Ken Frampton's first classes on the topic in the mid-1990s), and not of much use to architects, we are...
Sorry, we skipped an episode of the Madison Square Garden Relocation series. We left you at Episode IV. For those of you that missed it, Episode V included a memorandum of understanding being signed by Cablevision (owner of MSG),...
Way back in 1990, when I was an undergraduate at Washington University, trips home to Lima, Ohio were an architectural drag, from the point of view that there was little but amazing barns to look at. No modern architecture...
We love bamboo. We love Kengo Kuma's work. So loving Kengo Kuma's Great (Bamboo) Wall House is a no-brainer. We'll let the pictures speak for themselves. Via Inhabitat, which posts about the bamboo-house initiative, as well as some more...
Sad news, one of our favorite places in Manhattan (and inspiration for Your Hidden City will soon be no more: The Flower District, AKA 28th Street between 7th and 6th Avenues, just got served eviction notices. En masse, apparently....
Your Hidden City, the world's first open-source architectural contest, is only open for submissions for one more week! On March 10, at 5pm, we will close the Flickr pool and the jury will begin deliberating. Check out the full...
Reed Kroloff, dean of Tulane University’s School of Architecture, and Aaron Betsky, the director of the Netherlands Architecture Institute, have selected and introduced some architectural responses, published in the latest Artforum. Proposals came from MVRDV, UN Studio, Huff +...
Rogers Marvel Architects has been hard at work on their first building. Lucky for us, no one has seen it. Lucky for me, I used to work there (though never on this project), and Rob Rogers was generous enough to...
