The ubiquitous “Keep Austin Weird” movement seems more defined by what it’s against — big-box stores, Mediterranean-style buildings, Hummers — than what it’s for.
Toward the turn of the 20th century, the world’s fair as galvanizing cultural phenomenon had long been capturing the collective imagination, while its more demure cousin, the regional expo, busily proliferated in its shadow.
Featured in our Performing Arts BTS for its qualities as a musical performance venue, Studzinski Recital Hall captured our attention again, this time for its ingenious story of adaptive reuse from a college swimming pool to an auditorium for musical celebration.
Harvard University recently acquired the 1887 Hasty Pudding Club building, formerly owned by the oldest society at Harvard, a secret society that transitioned into a theatrical group by the 1840s.
The two-story storefront at 4611 North Lincoln Avenue on Chicago’s North Side may not be Louis Sullivan’s highest-profile commission, but its delicate ornament and graceful proportions certainly reveal his skillful hand.
The Sheila C. Johnson Design Center establishes a new 32,800-square-foot campus nexus for Parsons The New School for Design by uniting and radically reorganizing the street-level spaces of the school’s four buildings around a new urban quad.
First came the reconstruction. Jianfu Palace Garden (Garden of the Palace of Established Happiness), a compound in the northwest corner of the Forbidden City in Beijing, burned down in 1923.
At a fund-raiser held recently at the Diane von Furstenberg Studio Headquarters in New York City, a guest, Hugh Hardy, FAIA, ebulliantly broke out into a Gershwin tune, “I’ll build a stairway to paradise, with a new step every day.”