The Odunpazari Modern Museum (OMM), a major new institution designed by Kengo Kuma and Associates, will open in the vibrant but ancient university city of Eskişehir in Turkey in June, The Art Newspaper has learned. With stylistic echoes of Kuma’s V&A Dundee, the museum’s stacked timber design reflects surrounding wooden houses from the Ottoman era, and is named after its historic “wood market” district—Odunpazari. — The Art Newspaper
Image courtesy of Odunpazarı Modern Museum (OMM)."The museum will house and show Turkish and international Modern and contemporary works from the 1,000 piece collection of Erol Tabanca, the architect and partner in Polimeks Holding, a leading Turkish construction firm," writes The Art Newspaper. View full entry
"[Hudson Yards] is, at heart, a supersized suburban-style office park, with a shopping mall and a quasi-gated condo community targeted at the 0.1 percent. — The New York Times
Ahead of the opening of the long anticipated Hudson Yards complex in New York City, New York Times architecture critic Michael Kimmelman spared little time in sharing his disgust with its turn out. Rendering of the Vessel, by Thomas HeatherwickKimmelman picks the complex apart building by... View full entry
The curators for the 2019 Chicago Architecture Biennial have announced early highlight contributors who will create newly commissioned projects and other materials for the exhibition. The initial list is comprised of 51 practices and practitioners from 19 countries. It includes architects... View full entry
Join us at Archinect Outpost on March 23th, from 7–9pm to host Liam Young and his newly edited book: Machine Landscapes: Architectures of the Post-Anthropocene. Young and Geoff Manaugh will be in attendance to present their thoughts on the book, followed by a book signing. Machine Landscapes can... View full entry
The Canada Council for the Arts on Thursday announced the curators and winning proposal for the Canadian Pavilion at the 2020 Venice Architecture Biennale. Led by Montreal architecture and design practice T B A and David Theodore of McGill University, the exhibition will be titled "Imposter... View full entry
Le Corbusier has been the subject of countless books, but this is a first: Richard Pare visited every known building designed by the Swiss architect over his 60 year career. Le Corbusier, The Built Work. Photography by Richard ParePublished by Monacelli Press, Le Corbusier: The Built Work is... View full entry
Q: How would you describe our particular time, architecturally speaking?
Elizabeth Diller: It’s more a time of collaboration, and a deeper contemplation about what buildings can mean and how they can have more social value. I think it’s a time where you have to make a case for architecture to still be relevant.
— Interview Magazine
Interview Magazine sits down to talk with OMA partner Ellen van Loon and Elizabeth Diller of DSRNY. Both are currently working on projects for long-awaited cultural spaces—van Loon on the Factory Manchester, a £110 million theater and arts venue, and Diller with the Shed, a major new arts... View full entry
Will Alsop's posthumous building, the £2m Neuron Pod, has completed at the Queen Mary University of London's campus. Shaped like a giant porcupine, the structure comes complete with illuminated fibre-optic spines and will serve as the school's new neurological education pod, where science shows... View full entry
Two new OMA-designed residential towers at Greenpoint Landing, Brooklyn were unveiled this morning by Brookfield Properties and Park Tower Group, the developers behind the endeavor. The towers, in conjunction with a lower seven-story building, will offer 745 housing units and are expected to... View full entry
By championing virtues such as speed, technology, youth, and flight, the Futurists worked to cement Italy’s status as highly advanced and, thus, superior. In Asmara, the handsome structures built between 1935 and 1941 became multi-faceted tools of oppression.
Eight decades later, these Italian-designed edifices are still standing, albeit in need of rehabilitation. But preserving Asmara’s Futurist architecture necessarily preserves the fascist agenda that erected them in the first place...
— Atlas Obscura
Though the Futurists are featured in virtually every textbook on Modernism, their politics can be described as more than controversial. As they embraced speed, technology and scientific progress, the Italian group was also upfront about its misogyny, sympathetic towards fascist ideologies and... View full entry
The Mexico City-based practice Pedro&Juana has been selected as the winner of MoMA PS1's 2019 Young Architects Program. Run by Ana Paula Ruiz Galindo & Mecky Reuss, the duo's winning entry, titled Hórama Rama, beat out proposals by fellow finalists Matter Design, TO, Oana... View full entry
Though he was described by architectural historians as "humorless," Walter Gropius "was in fact a charismatic figure," according to The Guardian's Fiona MacCarthy. His life and career are shrouded in myths of solemnity and passionlessness, though the fact remains that he imparted a significant... View full entry
Arata Isozaki was just awarded the 2019 Pritzker Prize at the age of 87. Isozaki once famously said that "the most important thing an artist can do is confront society with something it has never seen before, something in a sense improper." As a full life of work lies behind the Japanese... View full entry
Announced Tuesday morning, Arata Isozaki has been awarded the 2019 Pritzker Prize. Dubbed as the "Nobel Prize" of architecture, it is considered the industry's highest honor. Isozaki—whose notable works have included Ōita Medical Hall (1959-60) and Annex (1970-1972), the Museum of... View full entry
Ryan Scavnicky started off the year with a critique of the popular Instagram page @pleasehatethesethings (as well as McMansion Hell and other such snarky pages/sites) "The attitude the page displays is disparaging and elitist". Further "it feels unproductive to deflate the poorly executed... View full entry
