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.
http://architectmagazine.com/design…
(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.
https://placesjournal.org/article/r…
Architecture’s Cultural Cachet is Killing It
The cultural esteem that often surrounds architecture is actually detrimental to it.
http://commonedge.org/architectures…
Uniqlo Launches Eames-Inspired Collection in US
Who can resist those slippers?
http://architectmagazine.com/design…
Concrete examples: has London’s once-bold architecture lost its nerve?
The buildings of the 1960s and 1970s showed a daring lacking today
https://ft.com/content/a76cf0be-972…
Design Renaissance in Columbus, Indiana
More on Columbus Indiana from our pal David Sokol.
https://architecturalrecord.com/art…
Robin Hood Gardens deserved a second life
It’s wrong to be beastly to Brutalism, says Paul Finch.
https://architectsjournal.co.uk/opi…
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.
https://theguardian.com/cities/gall…
“Architecture as intellectual inquiry needs to take more risks”
Mimi Zeiger on the Biennial in Chicago.
https://dezeen.com/2017/09/26/opini…
Architects nail design of San Francisco Art Institute’s Fort Mason campus
John King on San Francisco Art Institute’s Fort Mason campus.
http://sfchronicle.com/bayarea/plac…
Labor of Love
Our pals Adam and Sofia Zimmerman launch their Brooklyn furniture design studio Ot/tra. Check it out.
http://worth.com/labor-of-love-ot-t…
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.
https://theguardian.com/artanddesig…
The Crazy Unbuilt Architecture That Almost Transformed N.Y.C.
Our pal Sam's show reviewed.
https://fastcodesign.com/90143253/t…
A Postmodern Predicament
Will the renovation of the Portland Building compromise its historic integrity?
http://architectmagazine.com/design…
Transbay Transit Center – a difficult journey
John King on Transbay's long process.
http://projects.sfchronicle.com/201…
Columbus, a Movie on Architecture, Drama and Romance
A film I will leave the apartment to see.
https://archinect.com/features/arti…
A Generation of Architects Making Its Mark at Dizzying Speed
A bumper crop of designers bringing new depth to contemporary architecture around the world.
https://nytimes.com/2017/09/08/arts…
Want To Fight Inequality With Design? Read These Books Now
In case you need something else to read.
https://fastcodesign.com/90139032/w…
Modernizing Gio Ponti’s fortress-like art museum
Hoping for a good facelift for one of my favorite US buildings!
https://curbed.com/2017/9/14/162223…
Eero Saarinen’s Michigan
The architect’s groundbreaking works gave him international prominence, but his earliest architectural and design laboratory was in Michigan.
https://nytimes.com/2017/10/06/trav…
‘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 social housing
https://theguardian.com/artanddesig…
