Art
PARIS — "What should a museum look like, a museum in Manhattan?" architect Marcel Breuer asked in explaining his design for the Whitney Museum of American Art. "Surely it should work, it should fulfill its requirements, but what is its relationship to the New York landscape? What does it express, wh
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The architecture of Thorncrown Chapel, with its soaring windows inviting the verdant depths of the Ozarks, is a study in instilling peace. Yet a new plan may shatter the tranquillity by installing invasive power transmission lines just outside its pine and glass walls.
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"Build the Past Today" crows the brochure for a new licensing project for architect Richard Neutra's mid-century modernist house designs. Announced earlier this week, it's an intriguing approach to commercially continuing Neutra's vision in new construction.
Books
Originally designed as a separata to be included in a larger publication, The Light Pavilion captures the seven years that lead up the only built work of visionary architect Lebbeus Woods (1940–2012).
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It's shocking that a building designed by the biggest architect of the past century could disappear so quickly and quietly, but last month Frank Lloyd Wright's auto showroom on Park Avenue was demolished and the architectural world is just now feeling the reverberations.
Art
Le Corbusier may have been one of the most influential and prolific modern architects of the 20th century, but I'd never had a chance to step inside one of the Swiss-born visionary's structures until I found myself walking down a long alleyway in Paris' 16th arrondissement to his Villa La Roche.
Opinion
There is a growing uproar over the news, first reported in the New York Times yesterday, that the venerable Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) will be demolishing the 12-year-old former American Folk Art Museum designed by Tod Williams and Billie Tsien to integrate the site into its masterplan.
Opinion
A powerful company deserves a powerful building for its headquarters — Apple is getting a UFO-style office building from Foster + Partners in Cupertino, after all. So Facebook’s decision to ask none other than Frank Gehry to design their new space in Menlo Park, California.
Opinion
One of the advantages of living in a city is that the urban environment is in many ways more sustainable than suburbia — mass transit provides easy access to different areas without cars or highways, and dense planning efficiently fits more people into less space. But the quintessential architectura
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Bjarke Ingels Group (or BIG), the Danish architecture firm helmed by its namesake, is getting even bigger. New plans to create a LEGO museum and develop the master plan for the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C., signal that the buzzed-about firm is on the cusp of becoming the world’s next bi
Art
New York’s East 53rd Street, between Madison and Fifth Avenues, is full of nondescript Manhattan skyscrapers. In the courtyard of one of these clinically clean buildings, however, there are five crumbling, old slabs of concrete covered in graffiti. It’s hard to believe that these blocks, so out of p
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While the New York Public Library is reconsidering their architecture through a luminous, yet radical, Norman Foster proposal that would modernize the Schwarzman Building and reconfigure its stacks into reading areas, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is unearthing the architect who popularized those