The Return of Pacific Standard Time
Christopher Hawthorne on what the latest iteration of this exhibition series reveals about the hall-of-mirrors cultural relationship between L.A. and Latin America.
(Not So) Anti-Architecture
Robin Boyd was Australia’s most famous architecture critic. In a bracing and still relevant essay from 1968, he challenges the field to cast aside its perennial political timidity.
Architecture’s Cultural Cachet is Killing It
The cultural esteem that often surrounds architecture is actually detrimental to it.
Concrete examples: has London’s once-bold architecture lost its nerve?
The buildings of the 1960s and 1970s showed a daring lacking today
Spin cities: a brief history of revolving restaurants – in pictures
From Seattle’s Space Needle to London’s old Post Office Tower, via Liverpool, Dallas and Jaipur, restaurants have rotated at the top of spaceship-like buildings since the 1960s.
“Architecture as intellectual inquiry needs to take more risks”
Mimi Zeiger on the Biennial in Chicago.
Architects nail design of San Francisco Art Institute’s Fort Mason campus
John King on San Francisco Art Institute’s Fort Mason campus.
Labor of Love
Our pals Adam and Sofia Zimmerman launch their Brooklyn furniture design studio Ot/tra. Check it out.
The Bilbao effect: how Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim started a global craze
Opened 20 years ago this month, the glittering titanium museum had a wow factor that cities around the globe were soon clamouring to copy.
A Postmodern Predicament
Will the renovation of the Portland Building compromise its historic integrity?
A Generation of Architects Making Its Mark at Dizzying Speed
A bumper crop of designers bringing new depth to contemporary architecture around the world.
Modernizing Gio Ponti’s fortress-like art museum
Hoping for a good facelift for one of my favorite US buildings!
Eero Saarinen’s Michigan
The architect’s groundbreaking works gave him international prominence, but his earliest architectural and design laboratory was in Michigan.
‘I’m dumbfounded!’ … Neave Brown on bagging an award for the building that killed his career
It was late, over-budget and ended his career. But 40 years on, Neave Brown has just won British architecture’s top award for the Alexandra Road estate and similar masterpieces of