Architecture
In general, red carpet, the word “fun,” and architecture rarely go together — but it seems that’s about to change. Last night’s inaugural Architizer A+ Awards gala at Cedar Lake Studio saw the likes of Elizabeth Diller and Bjarke Ingels popping bottles of...
From palatial mansions on Long Island to skyscrapers in Manhattan, it's not hard to find architectural remnants of the roaring 20's exemplified in F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" and the new film adaptation starring Leonardo DiCaprio.
In 1963, Richard Meier left the office of Marcel Breuer to start his own firm, a staff of one that operated out of his apartment. “I lived in one room, and I worked in one room,” Meier told ARTINFO. “It wasn’t great.” He eventually upgraded, hiring his first...
Last year marked the first year New York City’s commercial buildings were mandated to publicly disclose their energy usage levels, and with that, some of the city’s most esteemed works of architecture were subjected to a new wave of scrutiny. While the...
“The fifth floor is extremely special for its sanctuary quality,” Rainer Judd told ARTINFO recently, recalling the vast childhood bedroom she once shared with her brother Flavin and their father Donald. Donald Judd had named his...
The relationship between art and its architectural space can be tenuous. Traditionally, galleries prefer the white cube, where flat blank walls serve as a compliant canvas for displaying artwork. Planning exhibitions in historic buildings such as the Upper...
On April 19, 1965, New York City mayor Robert Wagner enacted the city’s Landmarks Preservation Law, and the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission was formed, tasked with safeguarding the city’s rich architectural history by identifying and...
Architecture and filmmaking are not the two most obvious artistic bedfellows. But for Lee Yong-joo, an architecture graduate from Yonsei University, the appeal of the latter tempted him away from his original path, and in 2009 he wrote and produced his first...
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s 1958 Seagram Building is a landmark that hardly needs introduction. The handsome Manhattan office tower — famously set back from the street to form a dramatic Park Avenue piazza — has consistently garnered praise for its...
Although perhaps not universally known, the late Brazilian architect Lina Bo Bardi was a well-loved and influential force in tropical modernity and a champion of Brazilian artists. Arguably the best-loved of her works is the 1951 Casa de Vidro, or Glass House...
