Contentious museum redesigns have become commonplace lately, from Diller Scofidio + Renfro's plans for the Museum of Modern Art in New York, to Peter Zumthor's divisive proposal for a new LACMA superstructure. But as the documentary The New Rijksmuseum: Years of Metamorphosis shows, it's not a problem confined to the United States. The film, which opened in Los Angeles June 19, tracks the decade-long renovation of Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum in almost excruciating detail. Begun in 2003, the project intended to bring Pierre Cuypers' 1885 building up to 21st century "museological" standards.Seville and Amsterdam-based architects Antonio Cruz and Antonio Ortiz's original plan
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation announced the winning design for its proposed museum in Helsinki: a scheme of low-slung, pavilion-like volumes designed by Paris-based firm, Moreau Kusunoki Architects.
The U.S. Department of State announced today that the University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning will organize the U.S. Pavilion at the 2016 Venice Architecture Bienniale.
David Adjaye and Moshe Safdie remember the Indian architect, who died at the age of 84 Tuesday. The architect pictured here in 2012. His black round eyeglasses, in the style associated with Le Corbusier, were a nod to western architectural ideas. But Charles Correa, who died June 16 at the age of 84, reportedly of cancer, was deeply committed to the culture of his native India, which gained independence in 1947. His buildings, completed over nearly 60 years, were the “the physical manifestation of the idea of Indian nationhood, modernity and progress,” says architect David Adjaye, who designed an exhibition
Construction activity for the health-care sector has been flat over the past four years. The lackluster performance is expected to continue this year due to lingering questions surrounding the Affordable Care Act. Click on the image above to view a full presentation of these stats [PDF].
When news that Norman Foster’s design for 2 World Trade Center would be swapped in favor of a more eccentric scheme by Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), speculation as to the reasons stacked up as high as the glazed volumes in the elected design.
Today, architecture firm Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) showed off its new design for 2 World Trade Center—a gleaming, 1,340-foot-tall stack of seven glazed volumes—that will replace an earlier scheme by Foster + Partners.
UP Express Union Station in Toronto by Zeidler Partnership Architects. A rail link that can transport travelers directly from the airport to downtown is a simple concept, yet one that has never come to fruition in North America until now. On June 6, Toronto began service of its new Union Pearson Express, a train that connects Canada’s two busiest transportation hubs, Pearson International Airport and the downtown Union Station, every 15 minutes in fewer than 25 minutes. The new railway was, of course, in need of new stations, and the transit authorities at Toronto’s Metrolinx commissioned Canadian firm Zeidler Partnership