RIOS Sets the Stage for the Performing Arts with a Transformed Public Plaza in Downtown Houston Houston Matt Hickman December 12, 2023 No Comments Flanked by major cultural venues, Lynn Wyatt Square brings the performing arts outside in Texas's largest city—with ample shade, of course.Read More
RECORD Forum The Las Vegas Sphere and the Promise of a New Earth Izzy Kornblatt December 1, 2023 One Comment Forum: Izzy Kornblatt looks to the Enlightenment to understand the lavishly immersive $2.3 billion venue.Read More
The Sydney Opera House Celebrates 50 Years Matthew Marani October 20, 2023 No Comments The photogenic UNESCO World Heritage Site stands the test of time.Read More
LMN Architects and TEF Design Unveil New San Francisco Home for Famed Diego Rivera Mural Matt Hickman July 7, 2023 No Comments Rivera’s Pan American Unity will return from its sojourn at SFMOMA to a new performing arts facility at City College of San Francisco.Read More
New York’s David Geffen Hall Plans a Fall 2022 Reopening James S. Russell, FAIA Emeritus December 3, 2021 4 Comments After a troubled history, Lincoln Center’s home to the New York Philharmonic rushes toward a comeback.Read More
No Magic Cure for COVID-19 Closures of Performance Spaces James S. Russell, FAIA Emeritus July 21, 2020 No Comments The need to socially distance within locations designed to create intimacy has made reopening performance spaces a distant dream.Read More
The Shed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro with Rockwell Group New York City Joseph Giovannini April 26, 2019 No Comments With just one striking design move, an ambitious cultural building in New York lets the creative activity it fosters make all the noise.Read More
Renderings Unveiled for Diller Scofidio + Renfro's London Centre for Music Miriam Sitz January 21, 2019 No Comments The $370-million concert hall will be located at the southern tip of the Barbican complex.Read More
Review of ‘Great Performances: The Opera House’ Dante A. Ciampaglia June 18, 2018 No Comments A new film documenting the design of the Met Opera’s current home in New York City also offers an incisive discussion of postwar urbanism.Read More
Frank Gehry to Design a New Youth Orchestra Center for LA Philharmonic Erin Hudson November 9, 2017 No Comments The new center will be renovated from a pre-existing building in Inglewood.Read More