| NEWS | DESIGN | BUILDING | DESIGN TOOLS | ENVIRONMENT | CULTURE |
| DESIGN | ||
|
|
Pugh + Scarpa Step Up | |
|
|
Five Works by Zaha Hadid | |
|
|
Connecticut Science Center by Pelli | |
|
|
Nagasaki Art Museum | |
|
DESIGN THIS WEEK |
|
|
Walking or driving past the new Step Up on Fifth project in downtown Santa Monica, California, one could mistake the colorful building — with its front facade of yellow, white, and purple metal panels — for a contemporary art center or a fashionable condominium. The mixed-use residential building in the heart of this affluent, picturesque city was actually built to serve people suffering from mental illness and homelessness.
|
|
Zaha Hadid was asked to design the BMW Central Building in Leipzig, Germany (2005), described as the "nerve center of the whole factory complex," subsequent to an April 2002 competition she won, when the layout of adjacent manufacturing buildings had already been decided. Suppliers chosen for the rest of the factory provided many prefabricated elements, in harmony with the "industrial approach to office spaces" decided by BMW.
|
|
CONNECTICUT SCIENCE CENTER BY PELLI The Connecticut Science Center is a new architectural showpiece in the city of Hartford, Connecticut, designed by Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects. The design expresses themes that have been part of Cesar Pelli's oeuvre for many years: the importance of public space and its role in the city.
|
|
The Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum in Nagasaki, Japan, is one of Kengo Kuma's most successful designs in an urban setting. In this project, a small canal with flanking pedestrian promenades runs between two interconnected sections of the complex, bringing a part of the nearby sea, the port area, and the public realm of the city into the domain of the museum.
|
|
More Architecture and Design Vegas $8.5 Billion CityCenter Has Classy Casino, Empty Rooms — Bloomberg, 2009.1210Review of the Decade: Jonathan Glancey on Architecture — Guardian Unlimited, 2009.1207 Media Lab Aims to Elevate Transparency — Boston Globe, 2009.1206 A Former Shop Becomes a House in Singapore — New York Times, 2009.1203 Pugh + Scarpa Step Up — ArchitectureWeek, 2009.1202 State of the Cooper Union — Wall Street Journal, 2009.1202 Letter from Baltimore: Design for Aging — Metropolis Magazine, 2009.1125 New Yale Building Draws Mixed Reactions — New Haven Register, 2009.1119 Surface Tension — New Yorker, 2009.1118 Zaha Hadid's Museum Opens in Rome — The Times (UK), 2009.1117 Wellington Architecture Prizes Reward Sustainability — Stuff, 2009.1113 More Accolades for Austin Architects' Prize-Winning Potty — Austin American-Statesman, 2009.1113 Making Waves a New Spin on the Skyscraper — Chicago Tribune, 2009.1112 In Poland, Modern Among Traditional — New York Times, 2009.1111 K Rd Building Named One of World's Best — New Zealand Herald, 2009.1111 Five Works by Zaha Hadid — ArchitectureWeek, 2009.1111 Officials Consider History in UVa Design — DailyProgress.com, 2009.1111 Cool for School — New York Times, 2009.1108 The Architect's Own Place, Small but Full of Poetry and Surprise — Washington Post, 2009.1107 Local Projects Earn Architecture Awards — Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 2009.1107 Audi Showroom by Wilkinson Eyre — Wallpaper, 2009.1103 What a Posh Hotel and a New Library Share — Boston Globe, 2009.1101 Frank Escher and Ravi GuneWardena Design a Hillside Gallery — , 2009.1031 Cultures Successfully Crossed at Oxford's Ashmolean — BD, 2009.1029 Design Has Gone Digital but We're Still Waiting for the Wonder Walls — Brisbane Times, 2009.1029 Of Museums and Cemeteries — Wall Street Journal, 2009.1029 Connecticut Science Center by Pelli — ArchitectureWeek, 2009.1028 A Neighborly New Police Headquarters — Los Angeles Times, 2009.1024 Charles Was Right to Pan 1980s Buildings, Chipperfield Says — Bloomberg, 2009.1023 British Embassy, Warsaw, Poland by Tony Fretton Architects — Architects' Journal, 2009.1022
Note: Pages will open in a new browser window Library : more Contemporary Design and Architect Articles Special thanks to our Sustaining Subscribers BuilderSpace.com, |
|
