Architects

Reports: 101-yr-old Brazil architect back at work

kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago

Famed 101-year-old Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer is reportedly back at work just weeks after surgery for gallstones and an intestinal tumor.

Review: Gil Shaham performs the Berg Violin Concerto with LA Phil, Dudamel

Violinist.com (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago

By Laurie Niles: I realized on Thursday night that despite having listened to recordings of the Alban Berg Violin Concerto countless times, I hadn't come close to understanding it. Seeing a live performance enlightened me; moreover, seeing a live performance with violinist Gil Shaham , conductor Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic at Disney Hall energized my senses. The evening also included...

Pope meets 250 artists to renew friendship

MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago

Pope Benedict met artists from around the world in the Sistine Chapel and urged them to inject spirituality into their work, saying contemporary beauty was often "illusory and deceitful."

Reports: 101-yr-old Brazil architect back at work

Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago

Famed 101-year-old Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer is reportedly back at work just weeks after surgery for gallstones and an intestinal tumor.

Art review: 'Kandinsky' at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Culture Monster (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago

Just over a year ago, New York's Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum completed a three-year restoration project for its great landmark building by Frank Lloyd Wright. Among much else, the beautifully done project put a grayish white skin on the original...

Reports: 101-yr-old Brazil architect back at work

San Diego Union (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago

Famed 101-year-old Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer is reportedly back at work just weeks after surgery for gallstones and an intestinal tumor.

Reports: 101-yr-old Brazil architect back at work (AP via Yahoo! News)

WorkAtHome (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago

Famed 101-year-old Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer is reportedly back at work just weeks after surgery for gallstones and an intestinal tumor.

Dalrymple on Le Corbusier

Execupundit.com (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago

Theodore Dalrymple discusses the architect as totalitarian : At the exhibition, I fell to talking with two elegantly coiffed ladies of the kind who spend their afternoons in exhibitions. “Marvelous, don’t you think?” one said to me, to which I replied: “Monstrous.” Both opened their eyes wide, as if I had denied Allah’s existence in Mecca. If most architects revered...

Pope art

BBC News (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago

Vatican meeting reaches out to art world

The Roni Horn Memorial Signage System

greg.org: the making of (Free subscription) | yesterday

Pentagram has nice coverage of Abbott Miller's work for the crisp signage and graphics systems at Thom Mayne's spectacular new building for the Cooper Union. Which looks, in some of its particulars, quite like Roni Horn sculptures. I look...

Redding CA Real Estate

Timothy Reynold's Blog (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago

Redding is located in the Sacramento Valley in the shadow of Mt Shasta and is the county seat of Shasta County. It now has a population of approximately 107,741 due to recent annexations. Redding CA real estate is always in demand because of being close to Shasta Lake. Rain falls abundantly in the [...]

Atlantic Yards nears its climax

No Land Grab (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago

The Brooklyn Paper By Michael P. Ventura This article includes a thumbnail history of the proposed Atlantic Yards project and a question as to whether the project (or even just the proposed Nets arena) will ever be built. In 2003, Ratner finally unveiled his plan for Atlantic Yards — a 16-skyscraper residential, hotel, office and commercial complex with a basketball arena at the core. His goal...

Ratner and Gehry Party Ruined by Atlantic Yards

No Land Grab (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago

The proposed Atlantic Yards project cast a pall over the celebration between the starchitect who was canned from the project and developer Bruce Ratner during the topping-off ceremony for the Beekman Tower. The New York Observer - Gehry Gets Topped Out in Lower Manhattan By Eliot Brown Developer Bruce Ratner (left) took some time away Thursday from fretting over his planned Atlantic Yards project...

• Ratner And Gehry's Beekman Tower Topped Off - Gothamist

the exotic places she has called home

Plurter Article Sharing (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago

Tiffany & Co. operates an approximately 1,600-square-foot boutique in the Entetsu department store, located at 320-2 Sunayama-cho, Naka-ku, Hamamatsu, a major city on Honshu Island. The boutique’s exterior combines granite and marble with a modern, varicolored glass Tiffany jewellery jewellery and stainless steel details that reflect the Art Deco-inspired façade of Tiffany’s...

Basques of the net: Bilbao's iconic football team

The Independent (Free subscription) | 21 hours ago

The picture that shows you what makes Bilbao tick cannot be found in the Guggenheim. For all its undeniable magnificence, the Frank Gehry-designed gallery that rises sleekly beside the Nervió*River does not contain the famous photo of the celebrations after Athletic Club, the city's football team, won the Spanish league and cup double in 1984 (without the help of the hand of God). To find that,...

The Sagrada Familia Church, universal symbol of Barcelona

liz level | 08/06/2009

Discover an unparalleled architectural gem, a unique creation that has become Barcelona's most universal symbol. Come and get to know the Sagrada Familia, the pinnacle of Antoni Gaudi's creation, a monumental church comprised of shapes, towers, curves and complex, unique sculptures.