Architecture
In light of several factors — an ailing global economy and the United States’ less-than-stellar reputation with the rest of the world, for starters — the U.S. Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale this year (opening August 29) has taken a decidedly...
With the arrival of Frank Gehry’s twisting, titanium-clad Guggenheim Museum in 1997, the small, shipbuilding town of Bilbao became a cultural destination, its name forever bonded to a dreamy urban renewal scheme known as the “Bilbao effect.” Fifteen years...
David Chipperfield’s intention in naming the theme of this year’s Venice Architectural Biennale “Common Ground” was to highlight the common characteristics held by members of his profession: they share a mutual intellectual lineage, a collective memory from...
It could be the sign of a change of mood in the architecture world. Britain won't promote a starchitect's lifetime achievement at the 13th Venice International Architecture Biennale opening next week. No one will be using the pavilion as a manifesto for...
In the years following the wildly popular 1893 Chicago World’s Fair, planner and architect Daniel Burnham had a vision to build a manmade island along Chicago’s lakefront. Part of his grand “Plan of Chicago,” Northerly Island was to be a...
Now here’s an unusual case of NIMBYism: Evan Williams, co-founder of the social media outlet Twitter, has plans to construct a 7,700-square-foot property in a wealthy San Francisco suburb with enough solar panels and green roofs to qualify as a net zero...
Richard Neutra’s former home, the VDL Research house, is leaking. The Viennese immigrant, an icon in modernist architecture, built the house on Los Angeles’s Silverlake Boulevard 80 years ago for his family of five — he, his wife Dione, and their three...
The Brutalist silhouette of the Southbank Centre might be about to change forever. An ambitious redevelopment plan for the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Purcell Room, and Hayward Gallery is in its early stages — and it could radically transform the experience of...
For years now, Google Street View technology has helped the masses get a better glimpse of a destination. The 360-degree navigation has enabled anyone with Internet access to scout out unfamiliar locations by the comforting light of their computer screens....
In 1963, architect William L. Pereira made the cover of Time Magazine. That same year, the planner of "Vistas of the Future" (the title of the September 1963 issue) completed a building in Salt Lake City. Though not as formally daring as his later, more...
