Soft concrete may be an oxymoron, but Ellipse Sky, a four-story residential building designed for an obstetrician, his family, and several tenants, deftly pokes holes in that notion.
Too Big To Fail?: Long awaited and much debated, the enormous headquarters for CCTV finally opens, already a symbol of the new Beijing. But what does it actually say about architecture and China today?
Promising to “kill the skyscraper,” Rem Koolhaas and his colleagues at Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) grabbed international attention in 2002 when they won the competition to design a huge headquarters in Beijing for China Central Television (CCTV).
As if sparked by divine intervention, a design team led by Thomas Heatherwick completed and revitalized an important Modernist church by Francis Pollen (1926'87) for a historic Benedictine abbey, illuminating the late British architect's vision with craft and 21st-century technology.
Architectural Resources Group renovates a historic laboratory building in California, combining respect for the past with technical innovation and energy conservation.
Rising Star: Snøhetta's first completed U.S. project emerges from the earth like a high-tech outcropping, enlivening Bowling Green University's campus.