Architecture
Stanton Williams had never before been shortlisted for the RIBA Stirling Prize, but that didn't stop the London-based firm from pocketing the UK's most prestigious architecture award for their science research centre in the University of Cambridge Botanic...
In August 2011, M. Wells, an audacious, Quebecois-inspired diner in Long Island City, New York, bid farewell to the cult following it had amassed in just over a year’s time. Having failed to settle a rent dispute with their landlord, owners Sarah...
The Space & Design panel at this year’s Blouin Creative Leadership Summit began with a question that, to panelist and architect Charles Renfro of Diller Scofidio + Renfro, immediately intimated “a line drawn in the sand.” Renfro was among a group of five...
“See that curve? This is probably pretty close to the light that it’s gonna get,” Claire Weisz of WXY Architecture + Urban Design said during a recent interview. I had one eye pressed against a three-quarter-inch hole cut into a sketch model of a new gallery...
The temporary structure housing Frieze Masters' inaugural edition next month will be airy and connect the inside with the surrounding Gloucester Green and Regent's Park, the art fair has announced. Designed by Selldorf Architects, the New York-based practice...
Zaha Hadid’s new building Pierresvives ("Living Stones") houses the Cité des Savoirs et du Sport (Center for Knowledge and Sport) in the southern French city of Montpellier and was inaugurated last week to great fanfare. It’s the Anglo-Iraqi...
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has released the names of the five architectural practices shortlisted for the Manser Medal, which rewards innovative house design.The selection comprises Jarmund Vigsnaes Architects and Mole Architects's 243m2...
The former Essex Market warehouse on the Lower East Side seems like an unlikely (and uncomfortable) place to hold an exhibition. It’s dark and dank, conjuring the feeling of being in an underground tunnel, but that’s what makes it the perfect location for the...
OMA is no stranger to luxury retail, having worked with the likes of Prada and G-Star to construct everything from boutiques, to headquarters, to Fashion Week runways. It’s fitting, then, that Sheikh Majed Al-Sabah of Kuwait would tap the Rem Koolhaas-helmed...
In February of last year, Danish architecture firm Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) unveiled the truly spectacular design for its much-anticipated New York debut, a massive residential complex that spans the area of an entire Manhattan city block. The project’s...
