“Is architecture really as guileless as Aravena’s Biennale suggests?”
Mimi Zeiger reviews the Venice Architecture Biennale 2016.
http://dezeen.com/2016/06/01/opinio…
Eight Alternative Careers for Architects
Transitioning to a new vocation isn't as difficult as you might think
http://architectmagazine.com/practi…
Albion Street Residences / Kennerly Architecture & Planning
Owen Kennerly's three new condominiums.
http://archdaily.com/788129/albion-…
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.
https://theguardian.com/artanddesig…
In Union Square, Apple Store is spiffy but plaza needs work
John King on San Francisco's grand new Apple store.
http://sfchronicle.com/bayarea/plac…
Sunset Magazine
Eva Hagberg Fisher checks out Sunset's new offices by RMW.
http://contractdesign.com/projects/…
The Bargain That Revived Bell Labs
A plan to save Eero Saarinen's Bell Labs.
http://architectmagazine.com/design…
Renzo Piano’s Whitney is an architectural “tourist trap”
Matt Shaw takes on the Whitney a year later.
http://archpaper.com/2016/05/renzo-…
Review: SFMoMA’s Expansion Sets a New Standard for Museums
Roberta Smith also wishes the Botta building could have been erased.
http://nytimes.com/2016/05/14/arts/…
Play Ground: how a Dutch landscape architect is reinventing the park
Alexandra Lange on West 8.
http://newyorker.com/magazine/2016/…
How America’s Most Iconic Design Brand Is Planning Its Next Century
Returning, in part, to textile and objects.
http://fastcodesign.com/3059416/how…
Calatrava’s transit hub feels utterly scrubbed of memory and dislocated from New York
Good to see Alan Brake writing for Dezeen.
http://dezeen.com/2016/05/07/opinio…
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 – or keep its citizen-focused design?
http://theguardian.com/cities/2016/…
At SFMOMA, Stairways to Creative Heaven
Julie Iovine on the addition to SFMOMA.
http://wsj.com/articles/at-sfmoma-s…
Richard Florida on the Enduring Legacy of Jane Jacobs
A good piece for you urbanists out there!
http://commonedge.org/richard-flori…
Whispers of Louis Kahn’s Vision at the Yale Center for British Art
I want to hear the whispers!
http://nytimes.com/2016/05/01/arts/…
SFMOMA’s new extension – a gigantic meringue with a hint of Ikea
Oliver Wainwright weighs in.
http://theguardian.com/artanddesign…
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.
http://inhabitat.com/san-joses-new-…
Discovering Modernism in the Jewel of the Inland Empire
The modernist work of architect, Clare Henry Day.
http://modernistarchitecture.blogsp…
Reviving San Francisco’s Cinema History With A Contemporary Twist: New Mission Theater
Architectural Resources Group revives the New Mission Theater / Alamo Drafthouse Cinema.
https://argsf.com/blog/new-mission-…
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!
http://aiatopten.org/
