Kéré Architecture   United States   Plans to build the Las Vegas Museum of Art in the heart of the largest city of the state of Nevada have been approved. The new institution, with 8,360 square meters, will be located in the area of Symphony Park, close to the Discovery Children’s Muse

Foster + Partners   United States   The first images of the design of Foster + Partners for the tower at 1201 Brickell Bay Drive in Miami, by the seaside promenade, have been unveiled. Rising 314 meters and 54 floors, the skyscraper will contain retail spaces, the relocated headquarter

Foster + Partners   United States   Foster + Partners have unveiled the latest schemes, drawn up in conjunction with Arup, for California High-Speed Rail’s first four stations. These will be in the cities of Merced, Fresno, Bakersfield, and Hanford. Located close to the latter, Kings T

Foster + Partners   United States   Foster + Partners’ third office tower in Park Avenue will stand at number 350, halfway between the recently completed one at 425 and the current headquarters of JPMorgan Chase at 270. Counting 139,354 square meters, the new skyscraper takes a stepped

Foster + Partners   United States   The first images of the office building designed by Foster + Partners for the real estate development firm The Star in Los Angeles have been made public. Located at 6061 West Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, the tower has a spiral shape and its generou

Selgascano Diego Cano-Lasso   United States   In Mount Washington, a suburb in the hills of northeast Los Angeles, this house with impressive views of downtown LA adapts to the very steep lot it sits on, which faces southwest, making it necessary to shield the house against strong sunlight. Tube

BIG Bjarke Ingels Group   United States   The firm BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group) – in collaboration with HNTB – has won the competition to build a baseball stadium in Las Vegas on a 3.6-hectare site on Las Vegas Boulevard, between Tropicana and Reno Boulevards. It will be the new home of the Ath

BIG Bjarke Ingels Group   United States   South of the United Nations Headquarters on Manhattan, along the East River, this ambitious scheme shows four towers – with apartments, hotels, and a casino – and the spiral-shaped Museum of Freedom and Democracy within a 1.9-hectare park. The site w

Schaum/Shieh   United States   Nestled on a slope of the Allegheny Mountains, which are part of the Appalachian range, in the Shenandoah Valley, this house and retreat with its elongated plan and its forms seeks to mirror the gentle topography of the site. A work of the American

H/RD (Hopson Rodstrom Design)   United States   Located in West Los Angeles, on a very busy street, this block containing 74 apartments and retail spaces is topped with a sawtooth roof. Alternating concrete and perforated metal panels, it features elongated windows arranged in a staggered pattern,

Luis Vidal AECOM    United States   The renovation and expansion of the existing terminal is executed in a red facade, in accordance with the tradition and culture of the Massachusetts capital, for which the prismatic paint called Boston Red is used. Created specifically and exclusivel

Frank Gehry   United States   The project called Second Century Burbank, which celebrates the 200 years of Warner Bros., juxtaposes two different facade styles. The elevations facing the 134 Freeway seek to attract the attention of drivers with its curtain walls built with angled

Alberto Campo Baeza   United States   The city’s strict building codes are the main conditioning factor of the project. In close dialogue with the property, the building is designed as a pattern of round pillars and reinforced slabs that reduce their section close to the edge with a meta

Alberto Campo Baeza   United States   From an understanding of the facade as an element capable of transmitting messages, the enclosure of this Trajan skyscraper, with a squared floor plan, is completely wrapped in led screens, which turn the tower itself into a means of communication...

SOM   United States   In Manhattan SOM has finished restoring Lever House. seventy years after this American architecture firm designed the original offices of the soap manufacturer Lever Brothers. Completed in 1952, the 94-meter-tall, 22-floor building presents a rectang

Scalar Architecture    United States   In Connecticut, the New York firm Scalar Architecture – led by the Madrid architect Julio Salcedo – built this 200-square-meter modular residence for a large family on the hills of Mill Brook Valley, in the lower Berkshires mountains. Taking into acc

BIG Bjarke Ingels Group   United States   On West 34th Street, between Hudson Boulevard and 10th Avenue, the office tower called The Spiral stands 314 meters tall and is a vertical prolongation of High Line Park nearby, in Manhattan’s Hudson Yards neighborhood. The Spiral gradually tapers of

Snøhetta BNIM   United States   In the city of Decorah, Snøhetta was commissioned to enlarge the Vesterheim, the National Norwegian-American Museum and Folk Art School, which is focused on the people from the Nordic country who arrived in the United States in the 1820s. In collabor

WORKac   United States   In the Dumbo neighborhood of the borough of Brooklyn, New York, right by the Manhattan Bridge, a 1901 industrial building has been turned into a library by the firm WORKac, led by Amale Andraos and Dan Wood. In a dialogue between old and new, the ori

Brooks + Scarpa Architects   United States   The Los Angeles-based practice of Angela Brooks and Lawrence Scarpa was commissioned to build a pavilion within the Youth Sports Complex, a park with facilities for football and lacrosse, for the City of Pompano Beach. Containing office space, restro

Weiss/Manfredi   United States   To break with the hermetic structure of the original building, the design proposes the addition of a series of spaces with generous headroom that culminates in a cantilevered main gallery. The rooftop garden offers beautiful views of the park...

Michael Maltzan Architecture   United States   The stepped gallery sequence is woven together with a new “superfloor” of gallery and program spaces that float above the treetops. The original concourse is transformed into a transparent facade that reveals the activity inside...

Johnston Marklee   United States   The vaulted profile of the new pavilions, the ethereal and porous materiality of the envelope and the redesign of the circulation inside the galleries aim to spark in the visitor the sensation of walking through a ‘museum in a garden’...

Luis Fernández-Galiano   With the attempt to assassinate him, Trump steps up from history to myth. More than thirty years ago we gave him space in these pages, in line with the publication of The Art of the Deal, part memoir and part property developer’s manual, and his arri

The Costume Institute’s latest exhibition, Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion, aims to reactivate the sensory capacities of masterworks in the MET collection. For this purpose, different techniques have been used, from artificial intelligence and

Alejandro Bernabeu   At his induction into the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in January, Miguel Aguiló gave a discourse titled ‘Caring for Earth, Recreating the World,’ in which he tackled heritage, the landscape, and the planet. Three spheres of civil engineering that expl

Roy Nachum (1979, Jerusalem) works across disciplines and is known especially for paintings that go from surrealism to hyperrealism. Nachum rose to fame with the cover design for Rihanna’s Anti album of 2016, a work that included a fragment in Braill

On the campus of Brown University, the New York studio REX – with Joshua Ramus, a former partner at OMA, at the helm – has completed a versatile performing arts center that addresses the requirements of a renowned full student symphony orchestra and

If there is something we are still learning from Las Vegas, it is the fact that there are no limits to creativity in the search for publicity ploys and gimmicks. To its kitch imitation of Italy’s City of Canals, the casino and hotel The Venetian has

Friends of Residential Treasures: Los Angeles (FORT: LA) is collaborating with Frances Anderton, longtime architecture advocate and author of Common Ground: Multifamily Housing in Los Angeles, on an innovative online resource called “Awesome and Affo

Luis Fernández-Galiano   If the gilded moment of Vienna ended with World War I and the artistic protagonism of Paris with World War II, the cultural scene of New York blurred from 1968 on. A good number of the abstract expressionists had died young. Peggy Guggenheim had retu

Luis Fernández-Galiano   If Paris found itself at the close of the war caught between the euphoria of the city’s liberation by the American army and the trauma of the horror of the Holocaust, the United States saw the termination of hostilities under the dark shadow of the n

In her snapshots, Lynne Cohen deliberately flirts with ambiguity. Even though the interiors photographed are located in completely functional places, it is difficult to distinguish an installation or ready-made from a spontaneous take.

The New York Times   Erin Griffith   Conor Dougherty   A former Goldman Sachs trader moved to the Bay Area to make it in tech. He ended up buying rural land with money from some of Silicon Valley’s wealthiest people.  What if you built a new city from the ground up? The idea has tantalized urban pla

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)

1929-2022 Son of a Swedish diplomat on mission in the United States, Claes Oldenburg studied at the universities of Chicago and Yale before adopting the US nationality and settling in New York. In 1961 he opened a small shop on the Lower East Side wh

1939-2022 Incubated in the 19th century and splendidly developed during the following century, hispanist tradition had in Jonathan Brown its greatest art historian. Born in Massachusetts in 1939, his long career had its seed, as so many art lovers si

1936-2022 The semiotic wave of the 1960s and 1970s decade, and in general the scientist obsession of those years, bore disparate fruits. Some were engulfed by history, while others maintain, if not the pertinence of that time, an undoubtable interest

1930-2022 Deceased on 11 February at 92 years of age, James Stewart Polshek was one of those archi-tects who, in spite of having completed noteworthy buildings, could not bear the load of me-dia glitz and preferred a quiet and fruitful professional a

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

Alberto Ballesteros   There are many Chicagos besides that of the postcard picture: the rough Chicago of meatpacking that Sandburg lyricized, the sordid Chicago of gangsters that Algren novelized, the marginal Chicago of Chicanos where Sandra Cisneros grew up. The same go

Alejandro Bernabeu   Chicago’s cool. So begins ACS’s tenth book on cities, though it’s not that simple. The myth of Chicago is not only due to its place and history. Its hydraulics, buildings, and bridges are important, but not enough to cover the city’s significance. Ne

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

New York Yimby   An updated rendering has been released for Project Commodore, an approved 85-story supertall skyscraper at 175 Park Avenue in Midtown East. Designed by Skidmore Owings & Merrill and developed by RXR Realty and TF Cornerstone, the 1,575-foot-tall mixe

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

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