Broad Museum: Diller Scofidio + Renfro
L.A. Screenplay: An art museum lifts its perforated veil, revealing the repository for its vast holdings.
Feilden Fowles Plans Rammed-Earth Visitors’ Centre For Yorkshire Sculpture Park
London architecture studio Feilden Fowles has revealed plans for a visitors’ centre with rammed-earth walls in Europe’s largest modern and contemporary sculpture park. Due for completion in 2017.
Critique: Inside Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s Broad Museum
Joseph Giovannini discovers that DS+R’s new project stands up to its much vaunted neighbor.
Dismaland To Be Taken Down And Sent To Calais To Build Shelters
Banksy said his ‘bemusement park’ is to be dismantled and timber used to build shelters for migrants near French port. An estimated 5,000 people displaced from countries including Syria, Libya and
US Firm Announces Plans To Open “The Bauhaus Of Africa”
MASS Design Group, a nonprofit US firm, plans to start an architecture and design training centre in Kigali, Rwanda, to help address the “dearth of professional designers” across Africa.
Affordable Housing Energizes San Francisco’s Mission Bay
In San Francisco, a city famous for its beloved neighborhoods—but infamous for its astronomical cost of living—the development of a new neighborhood on a brownfield site proved to be a
LA’s Broad Museum: A Downtown Destination Fit for the Instagram Age
In this edition of Alexandra Lange’s monthly column, she journeys west to ogle the brand new Broad Museum in Los Angeles.
Nonprofit Youth Organization and Market-Rate Housing Share a Site in San Francisco’s Hayes Valley
The Boys & Girls Clubs of San Francisco (BGCSF), a nonprofit organization that offers young people afterschool programs, wanted to replace its outdated 1950s-era clubhouse in the Haight district with
Zaha Hadid: from Baghdad to global ubiquity (and the RIBA gold medal)
One of the most sought-after architects in the world, Iraqi-born London-based Hadid is first woman to be awarded prestigious Riba gong in her own right.
The Architecture of Liminal Spaces
Columnist Aaron Betsky re-examines public spaces, and the roles of architects and citizens in shaping them.
Can Big Data Bridge The Gap Between Biophilia Hypothesis And Spatial Design
Biophilic design at a fundamental level, it is the adoption and conceptualization of principles we find in nature into building and landscape design that many studies have shown to increase
Robin Day’s Works in Wood Displayed On Assemble’s “Forest” Of Columns At The V&A
London Design Festival 2015: an exhibition designed by Turner Prize-nominated architecture collective Assemble at the V&A museum celebrates the heritage of late British furniture designer Robin Day.
It’s Just So Wrong – Part 2
Hermès and Apple The Apple watch is not elegant. Hermès leather is elegant. Together, they look stupid. Why a maker of high-end handmade saddles would join forces with a manufacturer
The Problem With The Broad Is The Collection Itself
The newly built museum in Los Angeles recaptures the spiritual drama of the monumental museums of yesteryear.
Winds Of Change At Dyson
Can the pioneering vacuum maker transform itself into a full-blown tech company? An exclusive peek inside the house that suction built.
Experiencing Architecture Through ‘Hippie Modernism’ and Retrospectives
In 1965, four artists bought seven acres in southeastern Colorado, intending to make live-in works of art. Their communal project came to be known as Drop City, where residents lived
An Interview with David Weeks
Based in New York, David Weeks creates objects through a sculptural, artistic approach. Most famous for his lighting fixtures, he captures a modern feel with an artist’s hand-crafted touch. Kelly Waters sat down with
SOS Children’s Village In Djibouti / Urko Sanchez Architects
From the architect. Djibouti is located in the Horn of Africa, which suffers from persistent droughts and severe scarcities. We were approached by SOS Kinderdorf to design a residential compound
Silicon Valley Reinvents the Mall
As malls die off around the country, and more people shop online, new shopping center models are desperately needed. In Silicon Valley, the source of so much game-changing innovation, the
Irving Harper, Creator of the Marshmallow Sofa, Dies at 99
Irving Harper, who pioneered Pop Art furniture design with whimsical mid-20th-century modernist classics like the marshmallow sofa, the ball clock and the sunburst clock, died on Aug. 4 at his
Guns In The ‘Hood
We did not grow up with guns. Or maybe I should say, we didn’t think we grew up with guns. I didn’t consider guns much before Columbine. I didn’t think
At UC Berkeley, Once Out-Of-Fashion Lower Sproul Plaza Gets A Remodel
John King returns to his alma mater, where out-of-fashion Lower Sproul Plaza gets a remodel.
Talmon Biran Architecture Composes Immersive, Interactive Zen Garden In Quebec
At the international garden festival in Quebec, Canada, Tel Aviv-based studio Talmon Biran Architecture have realized ‘around-about’ — a ‘dry landscape’ installation informed by the concept of Japanese zen gardens.
Prairiefire: A Mixed-Use Center Meets T. Rex
Rob Anderson (Field Paoli) and Fred Merrill (Merrill Companies, LLC) discuss developing a mixed-use center in Kansas’s, Overland Park.