Diller Scofidio + Renfro   United States   Aside from the building for the art gallery, the proposal includes a civic center in which the different programs converge. South of the plot, on top of another new pavilion, a suspended roof offers a place for outdoor activities...

Diller Scofidio + Renfro   United States   This performing arts center in the city of Worcester, 66 kilometers west of Boston, is named in honor of Cornelius B. Prior, an alumnus of the College of the Holy Cross, a private institution on whose campus it stands, and lead donor for its construc

AL_A (Amanda Levete Architects)   Serbia   The British firm AL-A, led by Amanda Levete, has won the competition to build a concert hall in Ušće Park, along the stretch of the Danube River that flows through the Serbian capital. Its entry carried the day over those of the five other teams that

Diller Scofidio + Renfro   United States   Designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro in collaboration with FXCollaborative, Henry R. Kravis Hall and David Geffen Hall – standing 11 and 8 floors, respectively – are two new facilities in the Manhattanville Campus of Columbia University Business Scho

Diller Scofidio + Renfro   United States   The curving forms stretching from both sides of a railyard in the city of Colorado Springs connect the US Olympic & Paralympic Museum, a work of Diller Scofidio + Renfro that opened in 2020, to America the Beautiful Park. Also designed by DS+R, t

Diller Scofidio + Renfro   China   Located in the Yujiapu Financial District of the port city of Tianjin, in China’s Hebei province, this center for music and performing arts is the second project that the firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro has completed for the Juilliard School, following

Diller Scofidio + Renfro Woods Bagot   Australia   Images have been unveiled of the museum that New York-based Diller Scofidio + Renfro has designed for the city of Adelaide in collaboration with the Australian firm Woods Bagot, having won the 2018 competition for the chance to build this facility wh

b720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos Diller Scofidio + Renfro   Spain   The proposal of Diller Scofidio + Renfro, b720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos and Gustafson Porter + Bowman is the winner in the invited competition to revamp the AZCA area in Madrid, a private initiative promoted by Renazca, an association formed by com

Diller Scofidio + Renfro   United States   The McMurtry Building is the home of the Department of Art & Art History at Stanford University. The form of the building articulates the identity of each program by locating their respective spaces in discrete strands, and is designed to foster a co

Diller Scofidio + Renfro   United States   At the boundary between the city of Berkeley and the historic University campus, the new BAMPFA is a bridge institution, balancing civic and university interests, aligning its location with its mission as a nexus of aesthetic experience and critical

Diller Scofidio + Renfro   United States   As a result of a conceptual operation that sections the building in two, the Granoff Center for the Creative Arts consists of a series of interconnected spaces that advance new directions in teaching and research, crossing boundaries between the arts

Diller Scofidio + Renfro   United States   Part of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York, the Juilliard School and Alice Tully Hall occupy a brutalist-style building carried out by the Italian architect Pietro Belluschi in 1969. Besides enlarging the built area, the renovation ai

Diller Scofidio + Renfro   United Kingdom   The Tide is a network of public spaces and gardens within the urban fabric of Greenwich Peninsula, in southeast London. Of the 5 kilometers foreseen in the master plan, one fifth has been completed in a first phase connecting the intermodal hub with

Diller Scofidio + Renfro   Russia   Beside the Moskva River and a minute’s walk from the Kremlin and Red Square, the Zaryadye was an over 50,000-square-meter urban void between Moscow’s tourist zone and the Kitay-Gorod business district. This area, inhabited in the past, has a troubled

Diller Scofidio + Renfro   United States   The Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts was built in the 1960s as part of an urban renewal program for the Upper West Side, with buildings by architects like Gordon Bunshaft, Eero Saarinen, Wallace Harrison, and Philip Johnson. After forty years i

Diller Scofidio + Renfro   Switzerland   The Blur Building is an architecture of atmosphere – a fog mass resulting from natural and manmade forces. Located over the water on Lake Neuchâtel, in Yverdon-les-Bains, the project is conceived as a multimedia pavilion for Expo 2002 in Switzerland

Diller Scofidio + Renfro   Brazil   The architecture of the Museum of Image and Sound looks to Copacabana Beach for inspiration: its coastline, its wraparound wall, its hills, and its distinctive seaside promenade designed by Roberto Burle Marx, which captures the essence of the place:

Diller Scofidio + Renfro   United States   The ICA is the first museum to be built in Boston in 100 years. The building includes an extensive program, from exhibition halls to a multipurpose theater, a restaurant, a bookstore, education/workshop facilities, and administrative offices. It stra

Diller Scofidio + Renfro   United States   The museum of modern art has completed a renovation and expansion project that has effectively increased gallery space by as much as 30 % besides making the building more functional and improving its connection with the urban fabric. The expansion yi

Diller Scofidio + Renfro James Corner Field Operations   United States   Designed in collaboration with James Corner Field Operations and Piet Oudolf, The High Line is a 1.5-mile long public park built on an abandoned elevated railroad stretching from the Meatpacking District to the Hudson Rail Yards in Manhattan. When th

Diller Scofidio + Renfro   United States   Inspirado en el Fun Palace de Cedric Price, el centro para artistas ‘The Shed’ responde a las exigencias de flexibilidad espacial mediante su gran cubierta de ETFE telescópica.

Diller Scofidio + Renfro   United States   Un panal de piezas de hormigón reforzado con fibra de vidrio envuelve tres espacios segregados y superpuestos: el vestíbulo público, los almacenes y las salas expositivas.

Diller Scofidio + Renfro   United States   A continuous band of circulations and communal spaces rises along the south facade of the Roy and Diana Vagelos Education Center, located in Washington Heights district, within the Columbia University Medical Center campus. The 14-story tower houses

The names of the finalists in the international competition to revitalize the Dallas Museum of Art have been unveiled. The six teams are: Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos (Madrid); David Chipperfield Architects (London); Diller Scofidio + Renfro (New York)

Along with the 6,800 Russian professionals who signed a call for peace quickly censored by Putin’s government, architects, artists, and designers from everywhere join hands in expressing their disapproval of armed conflict and their solidarity with U

Deep Blue Sea is a performance directed and performed by choreographer Bill T. Jones that premiered at Park Avenue Armory which revolves around the interplay of single and group identities. Jones, Janet Wong, and the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company

The Guardian   Lanre Bakare   Corporation says impact of Covid pandemic has made £288m Centre for Music project by Diller Scofidio & Renfro unfeasible. The Centre for Music was billed as being an acoustically perfect 2,000-seat concert hall for the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO

El País   Ianko López   The name of five finalists in the competition to redevelop Madrid’s Azca business district have been made public: Diller Scofidio+Renfro with Porter+Bowman and b720; Heatherwick Studio with CLK; MVRDV with estudio GRAS; Rem Koolhaas-OMA with Battle i

Chicago Tribune   Blair Kamin   Diller Scofidio + Renfro conceived the design as an innovative addition to Chicago’s renowned collection of tall buildings. The tower transitions from a city-engaging ground floor to contemplative clusters of meeting rooms above. The new structure’s

Patrick McCaughey   A wit in the publicity department of the Museum of Modern Art suggested that the new MoMA was like a favourite golf course to which, to your surprise, nine holes had been added. At a cost of $450 million, the distinguished New York architectural firm

Edwin Heathcote   The problem with interviewing Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio is that they don’t really agree on anything. Scofidio will say something about their early work and Diller will dispute it. And vice versa. I suppose it’s not unusual for a longstand

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The critical intelligence of Diller Scofidio + Renfro is expressed through a lyrical language. Though in the first installations and videos of Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio – from Para-site in 1989 at the MoMA to Overexposed in 1995 at the Ge

New York has just seen the opening of the Museum of Modern Art renovation and expansion, carried out by the local firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro. Since Goodwin and Stone raised the original building in 1938, this is the fifth enlargement to be carried

The New York Times   Michael Kimmelman   The museum added 47,000 square feet of gallery space, a spiffy new canopy and a restaurant. “It’s smart, surgical, sprawling and slightly soulless,” our critic writes. In 1939, the Museum of Modern Art opened its first purpose-built home on West 53rd

Located at Hudson Yards in New York, very close to Thomas Heatherwick’s The Vessel (see Arquitectura Viva 213), rises The Shed, another major hybrid of architecture and sculpture, this time by Diller Scofidio + Renfro. While the theme of the ludic mo

London has always been one of Europe’s foremost music capitals, so will not willingly fall behind other great cities – European and Asian alike – in the creation of grand auditoriums, theaters, and opera houses. This is the message conveyed by its de

The Guardian   Mark Brown   Cost of 2,000-seat ‘centre of music’, designed by Diller Scofidio Renfro on the site of the Museum of London, would have to be raised from private donations. The concept includes a pedestrian plaza and foyer above which would sit an “acoustically p

Harvard announced the winner of the 13th Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design: the High Line in New York, a park over an old railway line, a work of the multidisciplinary team formed by James Corner Field Operations, Diller Scofidio Renfro, a

Kosme de Barañano   Both located in New York, Vessel and The Shed represent two different ways of regarding the relationship between architecture and sculpture. 

Mark Wigley   A major exhibition currently on view at the Jewish Museum of New York presents the work of Chareau in the light of the concept of interior. 

As in drawings by the 16th-century anatomist Andreas Vesalius, with depictions of flayed human bodies flaunting all their inner organs and workings, the recently opened Roy and Diana Vagelos Education Center in New York City – Columbia University Med

Ever since their 2002 Blur Building, a cloud suspended over Lake Neuchâtel in Switzerland, the career of the partnership of Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio (joined by Charles Renfro in 2004) has been dotted with projects which are always surpri

El centro de la histórica Aberdeen, la tercera ciudad de Escocia, será transformado en los próximos años según el plan director de un equipo formado por los neoyorquinos Diller Scofidio + Renfro junto a los locales Keppie Design y OLIN, que ha result

Construida en 1930 para sacar de las calles de Manhattan el tráfico de trenes de mercancías, la High Line o ‘línea elevada’ estuvo en uso hasta su abandono definitivo en 1980. En 1999 se fundó Friends of the High Line (FHL) para intentar salvar este

Covadonga Lorenzo   La expresión ciliary function hace referencia al músculo ciliar, responsable del enfoque y desenfoque de la visión a partir de la acomodación del cristalino, y se presenta como el emblema bajo el que Elizabeth Diller y Ricardo Scofidio —unidos desde

The Ciliary Function