This is an expansion project for the Clark Art Institute, founded in 1955 by Sterling and Francine Clark. The prominent American art research institute is known for its collection of 19th century impressionist painting. The 57 hectares of hilly prope
The Upper East Side in Manhattan is known since the early 20th century as the luxury residential area of culture. The project, located on the southeast corner of Lexington Avenue with Gramercy Park, remodels a penthouse gallery on the top floor of a
The same client of the house in Chicago contacted the studio for a new commission on the plot adjacent to the dwelling. On this occasion, the project involved the conversion of a residential building, built in the early 20th century, into a contempor
In 2012, Hurricane Sandy hit the city of New York, and its devastating effects were felt particularly in the Far Rockaway neighborhood, in Queens. In the aftermath of the storm, the existing 1968 library building provided disaster relief to residents
In a corner of the Sonoran Desert (Arizona) is a house that wishes to go unnoticed, and manages to. First, it barely rises over three meters, so stands lower than the largest cactuses around. Second, it breaks up into three parts (living room, bedroo
Surrounded by the Saguaro cacti and the ocotillo of the Sonoran Desert, the house is nestled in a secluded bowl-like formation in the land, striving for an equilibrium and for a low impact on the intact natural landscape. After studying the views of
Suzanne Stephens The shardlike titanium-clad forms of the Denver Art Museum’s Frederic C. Hamilton Building burst on the city’s downtown with the energy of a lightning bolt. The museum addition, designed by Studio Daniel Libeskind in joint venture wi
Sarah Amelar Withan elongated kidney bean of a plan, the Richard E. Lindner Athletics Center slips sleekly into a tight and jaggedly irregular site at the University of Cincinnati. Though the client had given architect Bernard Tschumi his pick of cam
Julie V. Iovine The opening of the InterActiveCorp headquarters in New York is primarily being hailed as Frank Gehry’s first building in the city, but it is so much more. Sited on the Far West Side in Chelsea, the ten-story billowing glass structure,
Jeffrey Kipnis Like Minerva springing from the head of Jupiter a fully formed goddess clad in a suit of armor, the professional sports stadium was born a perfected building type. On the day that Emperor Titus opened the Colosseum almost two thousand
The wolrd’s oldest active watchmaking brand, Vacheron Constantin, organized a competition to build its main headquarters on the outskirts of Geneva, a new building that had to bring together both the production and technical facilities (the firm guar
Cynthia Davidson En el catálogo de la exposición sobre el proyecto de Raimund Abraham para el Foro Cultural Austriaco de Nueva York organizada en 1999, Gundrun Hausegger se preguntaba «si este edificio lleno de ‘dignidad’ dejará su impronta en el pai
Dejando la autopista tras conducir 90 minutos desde París en dirección noroeste, el automovilista llega a las inmediaciones de Rouen. Allí, en los terrenos de un antiguo aeródromo recuperado como parque ferial y ahora en fase de ampliación, se ha con
El Lerner Hall debía alberga en sus 2.250 metros cuadrados todas las actividades de un campus como el de la Universidad de Columbia. Su arquitectura ha intentado hacer una lectura respetuosa de los parámetros volumétricos y estilísticos establecidos
Como muchos otros museos, el Americano de Historia Natural, fundado a finales del siglo XIX y situado en el selecto Upper West Side de Manhattan, junto al Central Park, ha llegado hasta nuestros días como un fundido ecléctico de edificaciones de dife
Situada en la esquina de Times Square donde Broadway se encuentra con la Calle 42, esta torre es un único organismo compuesto de varios cuerpos solapados y superpuestos, cuyo carácter depende de hacia dónde se orienten y la altura que adquieran. Es a
Por azar Bernard Tschumi ha inaugurado casi a la vez el Lerner Hall de la Universidad de Columbia —que aloja servicios para los estudiantes— y la primera fase de la Escuela de Arquitectura de Marne-la-Vallée. Los dos edificios surgen de contextos dia
En 1925 Marcel Breuer se compró su primera bicicleta y enseguida intuyó las posibilidades del tubo de acero cromado para realizar muebles. Con apenas 23 años, acababa de ser contratado como Joven Maestro de Taller en la Bauhaus, recién trasladada a D
Después de la II Guerra Mundial, los arquitectos del Movimiento Moderno barrieron América usando el Estilo Internacional, sustituyendo lo que consideraban construcciones anticuadas por otras nuevas, funcionales y carentes de ornamento. Medio siglo de
Just as the annals of twentieth-century architecture began drawing to their close, a thrilling and largely unexpected denouement was provided by Frank Gehry. The completion of his Guggenheim Museum Bilbao of 1991-1997 in the Basque country’s largest
Amsterdam is a city of still water (its harbour linked to the sea by canal), while the waters of Rotterdam go in and out with the tide.” This is how the Dutch explain the differences between their first and second largest cities. Both cities are part
We take from the art of the past what we need. The variable posthumous reputations of even the greatest artists and the unpredictable revivals of interest in even the most obscure ones tend to reveal more about those who make revisionist assessments
