Alejandro Aravena’s Venice architecture biennale: ‘We can’t forget beauty in our battles’
The Chilean architect pitches activism against starchitecture and uncovers the architect’s role in drone warefare – leaving Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano distinctly out of place.
In Union Square, Apple Store is spiffy but plaza needs work
John King on San Francisco’s grand new Apple store.
Renzo Piano’s Whitney is an architectural “tourist trap”
Matt Shaw takes on the Whitney a year later.
Review: SFMoMA’s Expansion Sets a New Standard for Museums
Roberta Smith also wishes the Botta building could have been erased.
How America’s Most Iconic Design Brand Is Planning Its Next Century
Returning, in part, to textile and objects.
Yale Center for British Art: deft incisions give Louis Kahn a masterful makeover
Let’s go to New Haven.
Calatrava’s transit hub feels utterly scrubbed of memory and dislocated from New York
Good to see Alan Brake writing for Dezeen.
Ernest and Esther Born
This article originally appeared in Architectural Record, May 1, 2016 Charles and Ray Eames may have been the most famous Midcentury Modern design pair in the Americas, but they were not
Story of cities #36: how Copenhagen rejected 1960s modernist ‘utopia’
While concrete was being poured across Europe’s cities, Denmark’s capital found itself at a crossroads: would it follow the car-centric vision of grand boulevards and streets in the sky –
San Jose’s new Whole Foods is one of America’s greenest supermarkets
Whole Foods wins an AIASF Award for Urban Design and a shout out in Inhabitat.
Discovering Modernism in the Jewel of the Inland Empire
The modernist work of architect, Clare Henry Day.
Reviving San Francisco’s Cinema History With A Contemporary Twist: New Mission Theater
Architectural Resources Group revives the New Mission Theater / Alamo Drafthouse Cinema.
AIA’s Committee on the Environment (COTE) Top Ten 2016 Winners
Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects wins two awards in the AIA/COTE 2016 Top Ten Green Projects!
George Lucas-sponsored building at University of Chicago better than proposed museum
Blair Kamin weighs in on the new University of Chicago building by our pals at Valerio Dewalt Train.
