A Weekly Dose of Architecture Updates: This weeks dose features Brooklyn Botanic Garden Visitor Center in Brooklyn, New York by WEISS/MANFREDI: The featured past dose is the The Diana Center at Barna...
Back in the summer of 2009, when it was reported that Chicagos Prairie Avenue Bookshop would close its doors, I held on to the notion that somebody might save the architecture bookstore, or at least ...
Here are a couple photos of the Parque del Cabo in Gijón, Spain by Ángel Noriega Vázquez, 1997. Photographs are by Paul Prudence. To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just: :: Join and...
"Book Briefs" are an ongoing series of posts with two- or three-sentence first-hand descriptions of some of the numerous books that make their way into my library. These briefs are not full-b...
[Looking southwest across Prince and Greene Streets | All photos by John Hill] On Tuesday evening, Camper unveiled its new Shigeru Ban-designed store on the corner of Prince and Greene Streets in Soh...
Here are some photos of the Eye Film Institute Netherlands in Amsterdam, The Netherlands by Delugan Meissl Associated Architects, 2012. Photographs are by Klaas Vermaas. To contribute your Flickr ima...
Recently I watched documentaries on a couple architects -- Costas Kondylis and John Portman -- who Id least expect to receive the treatment. Which begged the question, "Why?" Perhaps the answ...
[All photos by John Hill] Thanks to the AIA, Doug Aitkens Song 1 installation on the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C. was extended to May 20 for conventioneers and others interested in the filmic...
The first issue of the World-Architects eMagazine last month featured an installation at Rice University Art Gallery: reverse of volume RG by Japanese artist Yasuaki Onishi. The striking images of th...
Im off to Washington, D.C. for the AIA Convention, so posts will resume early next week, and my weekly page will be on hiatus until the Tuesday after Memorial Day.
The deadline for NYITs sLAB Costa Rica Kickster campaign, a project I featured previously, is six days away (May 21). As I type this they are ~$7,500 short of their new goal of $24,000. Below is a vi...
Fondation Vuitton, originally uploaded by JP2H. Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris France by Frank Gehry (expected completion 2014). Per the Fondations website: Like a floating ship in the trees; wide ...
A Weekly Dose of Architecture Updates: This weeks dose features Mini-Studio in Mexico City, Mexico by FRENTEarquitectura: The featured past dose is the Azteca Multimodal Transfer Station in Mexico Ci...
[Photos by John Hill, unless otherwise noted] Last week, a bunch of press folks squeezed into MoMA PS1s Performance Dome to listen to artist Marina Abramović, architect Shohei Shigematsu (of OMAs Ne...
Here are a few photos of the Conrad Hotel in Beijing, China by MAD Architects, 2012. Photographs are by Willian Veerbeek, who has many more photos of buildings new and old in his Beijing/CN, 2012 set...
Behind this unassuming facade two doors up from the New Museum of Contemporary on the Bowery is the Salon 94 Gallery. While I dont see mention of the project on their website, the gallery is designed...
Mark your calendars: On Monday, May 21, Going Viral, a panel discussion organized by the AIANY Global Dialogues Committee that explores the impact that social media and technology have on design, wil...
Im often intrigued by the differences between renderings and photographs, especially since advances in the realism of the former and the digital nature of the latter are increasingly bringing the two...
Looking forward to the weekend, it looks like Saturday will be a great day for a walking tour. Ill be giving a walking tour that starts at Van Alen Books (30 West 22nd Street) and heads north to Brya...
A Weekly Dose of Architecture Updates: This weeks dose features The Arch in Mandal, Norway by 3XN: The featured past dose is the Holmenkollen Ski Jump in Oslo, Norway by JDS Architects: This weeks bo...
Here are a couple buildings by NL Architects, both photographed by Ken Lee, who has more photos of these and other buildings in his Amsterdam set on flickr. Funen Blok K Verdana in Amsterdam, The Net...
Trying to locate the Foreign Office in Berlin featured on my blog earlier today, I came across Caroline-von-Humboldt-Weg with a blurry patch covering a portion of a row of townhouses. Whichever direc...
I couldnt decide which one of these projects to feature, so Im featuring both. Here are a couple photos of the Auswärtiges Amt (Foreign Office) extension in Berlin, Germany by Rolf Mühlethaler, 2012...
[All images courtesy MAD; Photos are by Ty Cole] On a tree-lined Upper East Side street, Matiz Architecture & Design (MAD) have expanded a five-story townhouse into a seven-story building serving...
Here are some photos of the Drents Museum in Assen, The Netherlands by Erick van Egeraat, 2011. Photographs are by Klaas Vermaas. To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just: :: Join and...
This Saturday, May 5 at 11am Ill be giving a walking tour of parts of Tribeca, Soho, and the West Village. The focus of the tour, which is organized with the 92YTribeca, focuses on recent changes to ...
A Weekly Dose of Architecture Updates: This weeks dose features House in Piedra Roja, Santiago, Chile by Riesco + Rivera Arquitectos Asociados: The featured past dose is the Concrete and Water Buildi...
Here are some photos of the Handelsbeurs Bridge in Gent, Belgium by Office Kersten Geers David Van Severen, 2008. Photographs are by victortsu. See more on the project at Public Space. To contribute ...
[All images courtesy NYIT/Holler Architecture] sLAB Costa Rica is a design-build initiative of the School of Architecture and Design at New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) located in Nosara, Cost...
Here are some photos of the Oriel Mostyn Gallery in Llandudno, Wales by EllisWilliams Architects, 2010. Photographs are by Mr sAg. To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just: :: Join an...
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