Architecture
Oscar Niemeyer, the prolific architect who gave form to Brazil’s twentieth-century sociopolitical optimism, died this Wednesday at a Rio de Janeiro hospital. He was 104. When news of his passing was confirmed yesterday evening, the world seemed almost ready...
Although the one-time poet and artist will forever be associated with his 1972 live-masturbating “Seedbed” performance at Sonnabend Gallery, Vito Acconci has worked almost exclusively with design and architecture since the 1980s, when he...
Early into "Skyfall," James Bond's most recent return to the big screen, the audience finds the legendary MI6 agent in Shanghai's Pudong district, scaling the interior of a Norman Foster-esque high-rise to reach a dazzling fight scene backdrop of LED signage...
For the uninitiated viewer, “Massimo Scolari: The Representation of Architecture,” a retrospective show now in its final week at the Cooper Union, appears only vaguely connected to the discipline with which it engages. With over 160 drawings, paintings,...
David Lynch’s “Mulholland Drive”-inspired Parisian club Silencio will be bringing its unique brand of eccentric glamor to Miami during Art Basel, in a collaboration with Morgans Hotel Group.Silencio Miami will be residing at the ...
On October 30th, 2012, architect Lebbeus Woods passed away in his New York City apartment at the age of 72. Amid the haze of a disastrous hurricane, news of his death crept out somewhat discreetly over Twitter that morning. Those who recognized his name — the...
Since they were discovered by chance in 1940 by four teenagers and a dog, the Paleolithic cave paintings of Lascaux, created about 17,000 years ago, have lost none of their power to fascinate. Researchers recently suggested that the drawings were early...
During its summer seasons, the 172-acre New York Harbor isle known as Governors Island welcomes weekending New Yorkers by the ferry-load. The city’s denizens arrive clutching bicycle helmets and picnic blankets, ready to bask in the car-free utopia of an...
After announcing his new vision for Toronto’s entertainment district, renowned architect Frank Gehry discussed with the National Post his views on the city’s broader architectural landscape. In this excerpt, Gehry touches on the...
In 1973, New York governor Nelson Rockefeller and mayor John Lindsay announced plans for a new memorial honoring president Franklin D. Roosevelt. Louis Kahn had been singled out as the architect to transform the site of the memorial, the undeveloped southern...
