Herzog & de Meuron   United States   The Swiss firm Herzog & de Meuron was commissioned to restore the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Power Station, built in 1904, and transform it into an art manufacturing hub. In the 1950s, half the original structure – the Boiler House – was demolished.

OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture   United States   The flagship store of Tiffany & Co., the luxury jewelry and specialty design house, has reopened on Fifth Avenue in New York City, after completion of its first holistic renovation since opening in 1940. Shohei Shigematsu of OMA did the revamp an

De Leon & Primmer Architecture Workshop    United States   This multipurpose pavilion and outdoor space is located on the grounds of Locust Grove, an 18th-century farmstead, a national historic monument in Louisville (Kentucky). The building is carefully positioned to minimize its visual impact on the landsc

Frank Gehry BIG Bjarke Ingels Group Perkins + Will Architects Quinn Evans DLR Group   United States   Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), Frank Gehry Partners, Perkins & Will, Quinn Evans, and DLR Group have been selected as finalists from a pool of 80 teams that have taken part in a competition to build the future National Museum of the United States Nav

Rafael Moneo Belén Moneo Jeffrey Brock   United States   The plot on which these laboratories are located was the last one available at Columbia University’s Morningside campus, and therefore the new gateway to the campus from its Manhattanville expansion. From the start it was decided that the new buildin

Rafael Moneo   United States   Located on the historic College Hill, the RISD campus is scattered, which underscores the quality of the buildings while boosting urban life. The plot for Chace Center was located in the area around Memorial Hall, where the domestic character of Bene

Rafael Moneo   United States   The laboratory for Integrated Science and Engineering (LISE) was the answer to a necessary extension for the Department of Physics at Harvard University. The brief called for 3,000 square meters of free space, 1,400 square meters for high-performance

Rafael Moneo   United States   Following a long selection process, the Davis Museum was Moneo’s first commission outside Spain. It was received with great joy because, having decided to return to Madrid after five years as chairman of architecture at Harvard, Moneo would be able t

OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture   United States   In Greenpoint, the northernmost neighborhood of the New York City borough of Brooklyn, the development called Eagle + West presents two high-rises which complement one another and a smaller third building. The towers – rising 30 and 40 floors – inclu

Snøhetta   United States   “The non-building of the year.” That is how the grand dame of architectural criticism, Ada Louise Huxtable, dubbed the skyscraper – crowned like a piece of English furniture – that Philip Johnson raised in Midtown Manhattan in the 1980s, and which de

Thomas Phifer and Partners   United States   In upstate New York, a two-hour drive from Manhattan, a 380-square-meter house breaks up into seven black-clad volumes. To minimize their visual impact on the landscape, they are partly embedded into the ground and interconnected by vaulted tunnels.

Bates Masi + Architects   United States   This home is located in Amagansett, an early English and Dutch settlement in Long Island. The site served as communal grazing pasture for the early settlers, who divided the land into parcels where farmers rotated their livestock from one parcel to t

Foster + Partners   United States   The 308-meter-tall office tower 50 Hudson Yards officially opened in Manhattan. The carefully planning of the minimized core and the section gives the flexibility needed to create new reconfigurations, with spaces free for columns and generous ceilin

Barozzi Veiga   United States   The project is located in the industrial zone of Little Haiti, a Miami neighborhood which has undergone major transformation in recent years. Oolite Arts is an oganization founded three decades ago by Ellie Schneiderman. It provides the city’s visual

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

United States   The Smithsonian Institution has unveiled five anonymous schemes for the Bezos Learning Center in Washington, D.C., and they are open for public comment until 19 September. Of the 200 million euros donated by Amazon founder Jess Bezos, 70 million has

Herzog & de Meuron Piet Oudolf   United States   The design for a home for works of the American sculptor Alexander Calder has been unveiled. The location is Downtown Philadelphia and the budget is close to 70 million euros. This joint project of the Swiss firm Herzog & de Meuron and the Dutch gar

Snøhetta   United States   On average, 330,000 people move through Times Square every day. Understanding the magnitude of these crowds and patterns of movement was fundamental to creating a new life for one of the most iconic public spaces in the world. The reconstruction radi

Snøhetta   United States   In 1995, with the opening of the new Mario Botta-designed building of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), the museum led a profound transformation of the South of Market disctrict, a neighborhood which soon became the cultural hub of the

Álvaro Siza   United States   The Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza has completed a residential high-rise at 611 West 56th Street in New York City, his first work in the United States. With a limestone cladding striking a contrast with its neighbors, the slender, 137-meter tower c

Adjaye Associates   United States   The new museum is located in the heart of historic city of Princeton University and will go up on the current site of the museum. The design is conceived as a “campus within the campus,” containing, aside from the exhibition area, Marquand Library, o

Adjaye Associates   United States   Located on 125th Street, one of Harlem’s main thoroughfares and co-named Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, the new building seeks to push the museum typology to a new place through a fresh approach to both displaying and receiving art. The main façad

Adjaye Associates   United States   Located in the Lower Manhattan financial district, near Tribeca and South Street Seaport, 130 William will rise 240 meters tall, making a bold architectural statement and a unique addition to Manhattan’s iconic skyline. The mixed-use high-rise is des

The Economist   In the hills above Beirut, cranes swing above a vast new American embassy with Morphosis Architects as the architect for the project. Covering more than 43 acres, it will be the second-biggest diplomatic outpost in the world, surpassed only by Americ

At the base of the residential high-rise at 56 Leonard Street in New York, a work of Herzog & de Meuron, is this permanent sculpture of stainless steel by the artist Anish Kapoor. Seemingly squashed by a 250-meter-tall building, the 15-meter-long, 6-

The Guardian   Dani Anguiano   The only oceanfront home designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright has sold for $22m in California’s Carmel-by-the-Sea, the dreamy coastal enclave where Clint Eastwood once served as mayor... The Guardian. ‘Delicate as the seashore’: rare Frank Lloyd

In obstinate resistance to real estate speculation, the small early 20th-century St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church stood in the vicinity of the World Trade Center like an anachronistic residue of 1920s Manhattan, but was completely destroyed in the

Financial Times   Tom Wilson   Net energy gain indicates technology could provide an abundant zero-carbon alternative to fossil fuels. The fusion reaction at the US government facility produced about 2.5 megajoules of energy, which was about 120 per cent of the 2.1 megajoules of e

Curbed   Alissa Walker   Davis, who died of complications from esophageal cancer yesterday at 76, served as both the reluctant prognosticator-in-chief for L.A. and a guide to the overlapping urban crises that now cascade across U.S. cities with alarming frequency. In his imm

The New York Review   Steven Simon   Jonathan Stevenson   It is time to consider a radical solution to stave off the prospect of political violence and even civil war in the US. The Ukraine war and global economic troubles momentarily overshadowed domestic discord in the United States earlier this year, but

The state of Wisconsin's most populous city has dedicated 16 September to the Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava to commemorate the construction of the Quadracci Pavilion at the Milwaukee Art Museum. Calatrava's first project in the United States,

Anyone driving northwestward from Las Vegas for three hours, into the Nevada desert, will find the torrid plain giving rise, like a mirage, to some geoglyphic formations with pyramid-like constructions at the center. They resemble the remains of an e

The Wall Street Journal    Katherine Clarke   Actor Brad Pitt has paid $40 million for a roughly century-old home on a bluff in the Carmel Highlands along California’s central coast, according to public records and people familiar with the deal. Known as the D.L. James House, the property dates

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Helen Thompson is Professor of Political Economy at Cambridge University, and Disorder gives a history of the 21st century where both the terms of her chair are interpreted from the prism of energy. As in her work of 2017, Oil and the Western Economi

1954-2021 The influence of an architecture critic is measured by talent but also by their presence in the arenas where public opinion is formed. These are two qualities that Terence Riley, who died at 66, undoubtedly possessed. Riley studied and prac

1940-2021 That so many architects aren’t prophets in their own land doesn’t necessarily mean they shall succeed abroad. A few, however, do manage to make the saying true, and become not just prophets but symbols of the architecture of their places of

1949-2021 After a long convalescence with a fatal ending due to coronavirus, on 27 February Richard Ingersoll passed away in Huebro, not far from Almería and the Mediterranean, which he loved so much. Ingersoll, historian, critic, and one of the most

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Climate is not the problem, lack of governance is. Fifteen years ago I published an article, ‘Celebration of the City,’ which started by stating: “Climate is the problem, the city the solu-tion.” One year later, the Lehman Brothers crisis ushered in

Often referred to as the “Father of Landscape Architecture,” Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903) —alongside Calvert Vaux (1824-1895)— designed Central Park in the 1850s to be a democratic greenspace in a growing metropolis. That “sense of enlarged free

CNN   Lydia Armstrong   The world's skinniest skyscraper has been completed, adding a new landmark to Manhattan's famous skyline. Steinway Tower, or 111 West 57th Street, has a height-to-width ratio of 24:1, making it "the most slender skyscraper in the world," according to

The Guardian   Carly Olson   Tightening regulations and a growing eco-conscious workforce are major factors in heralding green office campuses. About 40 miles south of San Francisco, three futuristic structures rise from the earth. They are, in fact, part of Google’s n

The latest film of Wes Anderson (Houston, 1969) pays a unique tribute to the golden years of independent journalism, and in particular to The New Yorker, of which the Anderson is a self-declared fan since his teens. Set in the newsroom of an American

Alberto Campo Baeza has for the property developers Sumaida + Khurana y Bizzi & Partners designed an office building to go up in Miami's South Beach neighborhood. Combining white concrete, glass, and marble, it will rise around a large central atrium

Bloomberg    Dana Hull   Sergio Chapa   From a sprawling factory outside Austin to a property-buying binge on the Gulf Coast, Musk is making an imprint in a state that has long welcomed eccentric outsiders. On the outskirts of Austin, Texas, near the banks of the Colorado River, Tesla Inc.

Eduardo Prieto   “One must be absolutely modern.” Since the time Rimbaud wrote this intimidating phrase in 1873, we have been turning it around in our heads. Also in architecture, which was quick to equip itself with the instrument it needs to make good judgments on

With the same expansionist strategy that led it to open branches in Málaga, Brussels, and Shanghai, the Centre Pompidou will soon be making a landing in America with the help of Rotterdam-based Office for Metropolitan Architecture, which is refurbish

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