Stephanie Meeks, CEO of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, has mustered an array of data in this book demonstrating the virtues of architectural adaptation.
Today, the National Trust for Historic Preservation released its annual list of the most at-risk architectural and cultural sites in the United States.
Preservationists are imploring Russian president Vladimir Putin to take decisive measures to restore Shabolovka Tower, a deteriorating Constructivist masterwork in Moscow.
Architects spend a great deal of time making sure their buildings stay put. But the whims of nature and real-estate development can uproot the best of plans and make relocating an important structure the only way to save it.
One day in 1962, Oscar Niemeyer found himself strapped into the seat of a helicopter thundering over a tract of land on the outskirts of Tripoli, Lebanon. After two circuits over the city, the nervous architect (Niemeyer hated flying) told his project manager, “OK, we can go back. I’ve decided the best location for the fair.”
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill’s United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs is one of Modernism’s triumphs — perhaps the most successful campus ever created as a single International Style work.
Dutch architecture firm Mecanoo will lead the renovation of the Stephen A. Schwartzman Building at 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue and the Mid-Manhattan Library on 40th Street.