Architecture
Over a decade ago, when New York architect Peter Syrett and interior designer Chris Youssef were designing a cancer center for Brooklyn’s Maimonides Hospital, the duo pitched a simple and inspired idea: to build a completely carcinogen-free facility. The...
The morning after the London Olympics’ closing ceremony, an explosive display of pyrotechnics, acrobatics, and Spice Girls, the athletes have packed their bags, Posh Spice has reassumed her identity as Victoria Beckham, and the Olympic Park is now blocked off...
At a glance, the proposed design for a new memorial in Mexico City commemorating victims of the drug war appears fittingly simple and somber. Renderings depict 15 steel walls, rusted and inscribed with undefined text and arranged around a reflecting pool....
New renderings of One World Trade Center were unveiled this past Tuesday, the first new images of the rising Manhattan supertall the public has seen in five years. For most, the digital vistas — many of which show the David Childs-designed skyscraper cast in...
With five days left in the 2012 Olympic Games, the pressure is on for athletes in London eager to make their marks in sporting history. But for a year now, the pressure has been on, more or less, for the architects, city planners, and engineers behind the...
The famous Blue Plaque scheme, which marks houses once lived in by the great and good with a commemorative sign, is to be significantly scaled down, English Heritage has announced. The number of plaques awarded every year will be reduced by a quarter in an...
In support of the artists, architects, and engineers who played a major part the 2012 Olympic Games, the Royal Institute of British Architects did a little name-dropping on Friday — quite literally. The London-based association dropped a list of Olympic...
In 2005, San Francisco-based art and design studio Rebar took it upon themselves to seize a parking space, roll sod out over the pavement, and install a bench and a tree. In the two hours the installation stayed there (the length of time they could legally...
In 1985, when I.M. Pei proposed his design for a 70-foot-tall glass pyramid in the courtyard of the Louvre Palace, skeptics reacted in horror. The design was viewed as an apotheosis of modern glass-and-steel engineering and, to some, a flagrant affront to the...
At age three, your children are too young to play the Modern Architecture Game or assemble the LEGO version of Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater — all those tiny pieces make both of them starchitectural choking hazards. Age three is not too...
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