Editor's Picks #242

2011-12-18T12:32:07-05:00

Snøhetta has released a virtual tour exploring their proposed expansion/redesign for SFMOMA. SUVERK noted that he spends a lot of time walking through that hood and argues "the new Snohetta design is very stealthy...The surrounding towers St. Regis(SOM) and the W Hotel(Hornberger and Worstell) dominate the skyline to the point that one would not right away notice the SFMOMA expansion- (which is the same size as Botta's).- It will sneak up on you and then you will be curious -WTF is that?

Archinect’s most recent ShowCase feature highlights VLP Chapel in Grand-Bigard, by tcct, a firm based in Bruges, Belgium.

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Portuguese collective DOSE sent us images and a fascinating time-lapse video of their project BLUETUBE BAR, a temporary bar to operate at the annual academic festival in Oporto, Portugal, Queima das Fitas.

Wallpaper brought together five young firms of note at the V&A+RIBA Architecture Gallery in London and asked them to reveal how they got started. Apurimac reacting to the images of one of the firms ACME’s porposal for Universidad Distrital, in Bogotá commented "Those poor bricks in that Columbia project... Its like they "asked the brick what it wanted to be" and it said ‘raped’."

Snøhetta has released a virtual tour exploring their proposed expansion/redesign for SFMOMA. SUVERK noted that he spends a lot of time walking through that hood and argues that "the new Snohetta design is very stealthy - kind of a you don't know it's there until it's in ...

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Editor's Picks #242