A look inside the 2012 London Olympics velodrome, by Hopkins Architects. A look inside the 2012 London Olympics velodrome, by Hopkins Architects. Via BBC News View full entry
In reaction to the recent news of BIG's NYC apartment building unveiling, John Hill at Archidose has put together a somewhat amusing collection of BIG's mountain-like designs. In reaction to the recent news of BIG's NYC apartment building unveiling, John Hill at Archidose has put together a... View full entry
News just broke that BIG + realities:united + AKT + Topotek 1 & Man Made Land have been selected to design the new Waste-to-Energy Plant that doubles as a ski slope for Copenhagen’s citizens and its visitors by 2016. Instead of considering the new Amagerforbraending as an isolated... View full entry
Museum of space? Museum of space? designboom View full entry
Los Angeles architect/writer John Southern pens a contextual critique of DS+R's much talked about museum design for philanthropist Eli Broad on Bunker Hill. Los Angeles architect/writer John Southern pens a contextual critique of DS+R's much talked about museum design for philanthropist Eli Broad... View full entry
Architect Frank Gehry made an official presentation this afternoon to the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, one of the oversight panels that must approve his designs for a new memorial to Dwight D. Eisenhower. And it was mostly smooth sailing. Architect Frank Gehry made an official presentation this... View full entry
For a biopharmaceutical company H&deM have designed two new buildings. The business center has recently opened and the R&D building is due later this year. The piled and cut floor slabs feature an very visible steel-structure. For a biopharmaceutical company H&deM have designed two new... View full entry
New York's best new museum just opened in... Astoria? Designed by Leeser Architecture, the Museum of the Moving Image - dedicated to preserving not just artifacts but actual films - doubled its size with this new crystalline expansion. New York's best new museum just opened in... Astoria? Designed... View full entry
Charles W. Moore is indeed one of the pivotal architect and the author of the now notorious and often inadequately understood (and naively dismissed on formal grounds) Po Mo period of 70's and 80's. In early eighties, Moore's collaborative, still known and functioning to date as Moore Ruble... View full entry
Experience tells us that it would be unwise to build up expectations for Eli Broad’s proposed new museum, whose design was unveiled at a ceremony in downtown Los Angeles last week. Despite the tens of millions he has poured into the city’s art institutions, Mr. Broad’s reputation... View full entry
L.A.'s premier philanthropist Eli Broad and his architects DS+R reveal the work in progress version of the private art museum in downtown Bunker Hill, just behind the Disney Hall and kitty corner from MoCA. It's simply called "Broad." There are elements like "vault," "veil," and "dimple." Even... View full entry
MVRDV have created a visualization for a future post-industrial/harbour development in Basel (Switzerland), for the IBA Basel 2020. More Info here. View full entry
Jonathan Glancey, architecture and design correspondent at The Guardian, risks a look ahead to the year's architecture highlights: Zaha Hadid's Guangzhou Opera House in China, the topping out ceremony at the One World Trade Center by David Childs of SOM Architects in New York, as well as the... View full entry
World-renowned architect Frank Gehry has unveiled plans for his first building in Australia - a state-of-the-art business school to be built in Sydney. The building will feature a wrinkly facade built using a combination of brick and glass. "The hardest thing to do with modern architecture is... View full entry
Safe, sleek, inoffensive corporate architecture is offered that does little to elevate the conversation about the kind of large-scale civic architecture we want or need in downtown and region. Safe, sleek, inoffensive corporate architecture is offered that does little to elevate the conversation... View full entry
