Architecture
The Milwaukee Art Museum and Milwaukee County War Memorial, a Midwestern complex by two master architects of their respective times — Santiago Calatrava and Eero Saarinen — is planning a long-overdue $15 million overhaul that includes a glass extension that would serve as a new entrance.The museum’s proposal addresses some basic needs...
NEW YORK — "Is there something architects share?" asked president of the Biennale di Venezia, Paolo Baratta. "Do they refer to each other or are they just isolated geniuses to which we ask from time to time to produce a firework? Do they talk to each other?"London-based architect David Chipperfield, the curator of...
"Ai Weiwei’s practice ain’t called FAKE Design for nothing," quipped architecture critic Oliver Wainwright this morning via Twitter.The February announcement that the Chinese artist and the storied architecture duo Herzog & de Meuron (previously collaborators on Beijing's Bird's Nest stadium) were going to create...
A dollar can't buy you much these days. But for Joseph Catrambone, a contractor, real estate manager, and self-proclaimed architecture buff living in Oak Brook, Illinois, one dollar secured him a 594-square-foot historic Prairie Style cottage, churned out by Frank Lloyd Wright’s studio in its 1920 heydays. The only caveat: He has about...
Artistic collaborations often sail on an uneven keel: the best-known member of the crew tends to get all the limelight when the others are left toiling away in obscurity. Designed by artist Anish Kapoor and structural designer Cecil Balmond, the Olympic tower ArcelorMittal Orbit is a case in point. Reading the press, it sometimes...
Late last year, the mysterious strip of land known as Roosevelt Island became New York City's biggest tabula rasa. As Louis Kahn's Four Freedoms Park began to take shape at the island's south tip, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced plans for a shimmering new applied science campus to occupy a 2.1-million-square-foot property just to the...
Robert Venturi wouldn't be Robert Venturi without his pamphlet "Learning from Las Vegas," and Rem Koolhaas is at least as influential a thinker on urban space as he is one of the world's leading architects. And yet research is often little discussed in mainstream architectural exhibitions. With this in mind, the British Council — which...
America is fast becoming a pop-up nation. From sea to shining sea, her cities have been swept up in the frenzy for temporary architecture: Brooklyn vendors sell their wares in artfully arranged shipping containers; Dallas's Build a Better Block group champions DIY painted bicycle routes and pop-up small businesses; architects...
Ai Weiwei and Herzog & de Meuron have revealed their plans for the 12th Serpentine Pavilion, to be unveiled on June 1st, as part of the London 2012 Festival. For their first collaboration in the UK, the team behind the iconic nest-shaped Beijing National Stadium — built for the 2008 Olympic Games — has resisted the...
NEW YORK — When you walk into the Marina Abramovic Institute in Hudson, New York, you will have to surrender your cell phone, your watch, and your iPod. You will put on a white lab coat and sign a piece of paper pledging to stay for at least two-and-a-half hours. “I want to create a school for the public,” Abramovic said, as she...
