East Coast Architecture Review (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
Alumni Hall Parking Structure (Lehigh University), Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA - Bohlin Cywinski Jackson via flickr: alish863psu Feature your photographs here: + join our flickr pool
Fashion Architect (Free subscription) | yesterday
[pic BKRW ] You want fashion and architecture? I'll give you some. Hell, I'll even throw in a pop star and a dose of avant-garde art, while we're at it. So, here's Lady Gag a debuting her new ballad at the MOCA's 30th anniversary party, wearing a hat designed by Frank Gehry and a dress by Prada, while playing on a Steinway grand piano painted pink with blue butterflies by Damien Hirst . [pic Nicola...
The Independent (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Maxxi Contemporary Arts Center, which was completed by London-based Zaha Hadid Architects last week, will open to the public after all collections have been moved in.
Artdaily (Free subscription) | yesterday
CHICAGO, IL.- Italian born, Berlin-based artist Monica Bonvicini (b. 1965) creates videos, sculptures, installations, and drawings that explore the physical and psychological effects of institutional, particularly museum, architecture. The first focus contemporary art exhibition presented in the Art Institute of Chicago 's Modern Wing, Monica Bonvicini: Light Me Black--on view November 20, 2009 through...
Archinect (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Ever pass by a standout building and wonder -- who the hell lives there? Spain's TVE went around visiting apartments in the new housing by architects like FOA and MVRDV, and also older classics, like Casa Mil�. (in Espa�ol -- and it might only transmit for the next week) watch
The Art of Fiction (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
When Urbis was designed and built, following the 1996 IRA bomb which ripped the heart out of the city, it was as part of a new visioning of that part of the city. Public space was transformed, with that part of the city, ravaged by sixties town planners and soulless shopping centres, opened out again so that the great buildings of Chethams, the Corn Exchange and the Cathedral became integrated back...
A Daily Dose of Architecture (Free subscription) | yesterday
The idea of a Louvre branch on Abu Dhabi's Saadiyat Island is just mind-boggling. When completed in 2013, the museum will present "works drawn from the Louvre and other French museums and from its own permanent collection." But if the numbers in Adran Hornsby's article on the end of "starchitecture" in the latest Hunch are any indication -- approximately half of the $1.4 billion...
Architechnophilia (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
Studio Banana TV interviews Italian architect Benedetta Tagliabue from the studio Miralles-Tagliabue ( EMBT )in Barcelona.
Archinect (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
We've received many inquiries about when we'll be re-stocking our t-shirts . The answer is very soon!... in the next few days actually. If you're interested please make sure you're signed up to our mailing list as we'll send out an announcement there first to let those of you that are interested to get the first chance. Some of the designs/sizes will sell out fast. And on a related note, we'll be releasing...
Avignon in Photos (Free subscription) | yesterday
Palais des Papes - Paul Andreu (architecte) Inside the Popes Palace yesterday afternoon, conference on "Beyond GDP - how can we integrate culture?". Speaking here is Paul Andreu (France) giving his point of view as an architect . Can architecture create happiness? Certainly no but it can contribute to quality of life and the huge work produced by architects around the "grand Paris"...
Archinect (Free subscription) | yesterday
As we hear reports of Alameda County sheriffs entering the Berkeley campus with tear gas today, and (on the positive side) the University of California teams doing very well in the WPA 2.0 competition (winners UCLA's cityLAB as well as Berkeley faculty runners-up Rael and de Monchaux), it's worth listening to this report on Democracy Now. | Don't forget, we're also documenting the contribution of the...
A Daily Dose of Architecture (Free subscription) | yesterday
Here are a couple Friday afternoon facades. [Beekman Tower in Manhattan by Gehry Partners, under construction | photo by Philippe2032 from Paris ] [Campus Audiovisual in Barcelona, Spain by David Chipperfield Architects , 2008 | photo by jmtp ] To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just: :: Join and add photos to the archidose pool , and/or :: Tag your photos archidose
The Daily Transom (Free subscription) | yesterday
At a topping-off ceremony for his Beekman Tower yesterday, 80-year old architect Frank Gehry took to the podium and made one of those slightly randy jokes that men can get away with when they're 80. Mr. Gehry pointed his finger upright toward the 76-tower residential complex and bluntly proclaimed: "No Viagra." Mr. Gehry said he will wait awhile to see the view from what will eventually...
PrairieMod (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Frick’s Center for the History of Collecting in America announced recently that author Julia Meech is the first winner of its Sotheby’s Book Prize for her book, Frank Lloyd Wright and the Art of Japan: The Architect’s Other Passion. Read more about it here. Image via Artdaily.org
Retro To Go (Free subscription) | yesterday
If you missed out on the exhibition of the same name a couple of years ago, then the book “Joe Colombo – Inventing the Future” is a most have for any fans of the pioneering designer. This beautiful hardback book...
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