COOL HUNTING (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
by Paolo Ferrarini of Future Concept Lab Designed by Pritzker Prize-winner Zaha Hadid, the new MAXXI (National Museum of the Arts of the 21st Century) is the newest astonishing piece of architecture in Rome. With a planned opening in spring 2010, it will house collections of contemporary art and architecture. To celebrate the conclusion of construction, the museum opened its doors to the general public...
Flavorwire (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
According to the press release that accompanied this image, Sheikh Sultan bin Tahnoon Al Nahyan was inspecting a prototype of the dome for the Louvre Abu Dhabi, which is expected to open in 2013. Jean Nouvel, Pritzker Prize-winning architect for the project, smiles to his left. Give us your best caption. Our favorite response will [...] Related posts: The Onion [Open Caption]'> Pic of the Day: God...
Curbed (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Extell has become so tight-lipped on its planned 73-story condo/Park Hyatt hotel that we keep having to mine international news sources for updates. Already we received word from France that Pritzker Prize-winning starchitect Christian de Portzamparc will design 157 West 57th Street , across the street from Carnegie Hall. Now, via Abu Dhabi's English-language newspaper The National and carrying the...
Architechnophilia (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Today is the 65th birthday of Dutch architect and 2000 Pritzker Prize Laurette Rem Koolhaas and at an age when most have to legally retire he seems to be going as strong as ever and such I've decided to do a post devoted specifically to all things Rem. Happy Birthday. 1975 ::: sets up the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) 2000 ::: awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize 2005 ::: completes...
Pop Wuping (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
The Chanel Mobile Art Container is a traveling exhibition space built by Pritzker Prize winning architect Zaha Hadid at the invitation of Karl...
Places and Spaces (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Kate John-Alder, Landscape Architect 2009 Rutgers Outstanding Landscape Architecture Alumni of the Year The Garden and The Greenhouse: The Landscapes of Kevin Roche Born in Ireland, but practiced and taught in the US. Came out of a modernist tradition with Saarinen. Saarinen's sudden death lead to the formation of Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo and Associates. Decent credentials: 1982 Pritzker Prize in...
Looking Around (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Not long ago, in connection with a story I'll be posting soon on Time.com, I had a conversation with Thom Mayne, the Pritzker Prize-winning architect who heads the Santa Monica-based firm Morphosis. This fall New York got its first building by Mayne, a really compelling project in the East Village that holds offices, laboratories [...]
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Peter Zumthor "is known to be uncompromising when it comes to his designs, and he exhibits his work rarely. He also tries to maintain an ethical orientation to design and practice, working mainly on public and institutional projects, and repeatedly turning down lucrative offers from developers and private clients."...
Curbed LA (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
We never thought we'd put Pritzker Prize winning architect Thom Mayne and Sarah Jessica Parker in the same sentence, let alone serving on the same Arts Committee for President Obama, but politics makes strange, well, you know. The White House has announced the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, and Mayne and Parker join Vogue's Anna Wintour, CAA's Bryan Lourd, and cellist Yo-Yo...
The ArchitectsNewspaper Blog (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Granted he’s won the Pritzker Prize and had a string of recent successes, but all the same we were more than surprised to get a forwarded White House press release from Morphosis today touting the appointment of Thom Mayne, one of the industry’s gruffer individuals, to the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities. He [...]
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
BOSTON, MA.- The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston has reached a critical benchmark in early fundraising for its new building and palace restoration project. The Gardner Museum has raised, to date, more than $100 million in gifts and pledges, representing support from the museum's entire Boardof Trustees, as well as from museum overseers, other individuals and institutional funders. This early...
Curbed (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
"> " style="font-size: 9px; text-align: center;"> Click the image above to view the full photogallery. As megadeveloper Extell continues adding elements to its Riverside South community along the West Side just north of 59th Street, it should come as no surprise that the biggest piece of that puzzle is generating a touch of controversy. After all, this land was one earmarked...
Archinect (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
Miami Art Museum Director Terence Riley resigned Monday after nearly four years on the job, but he will remain affiliated with the museum through June 30, as a consultant, focused exclusively on MAM's new, $220 million home planned for Bicentennial Park. In leading the new museum project, Riley helped commission the Pritzker Prize winning architectural firm of Herzog & de Meuron to design the new...
greenbuildingsNYC (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
Fanboyish eruptions of enthusiasm and admiration are presumably not what you, The Reader, turn to gbNYC to read. (Neither are rhyming headlines, but... yeah, see what I did there?) No, you're here for the buried links to "classic" rock performances and self-referential leads and, theoretically, news on green building in Gotham. Which I do try to keep in mind, but... have you seen the new...
Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn (Free subscription) | 18/10/2009
The Prospect Heights biennial house tour is TODAY: Sunday, October 18th from 12:00 PM to 5:00 PM. Rain or shine. Appease your curiosity. See how the other half lives. be voyeuristic. Get ideas. Dream. The self-guided tour will include 11 wonderful homes and apartments. As one of Brooklyn’s premier brownstone neighborhoods, Prospect Heights’ historical and aesthetic significance was recognized...
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