Our Design Miami correspondent offers a glimpse at the new Herzog & de Meuron project, David Gauld's renovation and expansion of an Isozaki museum, and a show highlighting the friendship of Richard Meier and Frank Stella.
Situated just west of the Getty Center in the Santa Monica Mountains, brand new renderings of the think tank’s campus include a floating rectangular structure of concrete and two massive spheres.
Rumor has it that the quaint town inspired the architecture in Disney’s animated film Beauty and the Beast. But in a recent renovation of the city’s Musée Unterlinden, Herzog & de Meuron made a conscious effort to avoid the preciousness of a Disney film.
Eclectic and eccentric, with influences that range from Islamic to Celtic to Japanese, the Veteran’s Room at the Park Avenue Armory was reopened to the public in March as an intimate space for lectures and recitals.
The Sky's The Limit: The expansion of a vast trade-fair complex satisfies demanding exhibition-hall requirements and figures into a city's plans for urban renewal.