Photo courtesy Michael Graves Architecture & Design Shortly before he died on March 12, Michael Graves gave his last artwork to the Sir John Soane Museum in London. A longtime advisor to the fabled house museum’s New York-based fundraising foundation, Graves donated the acrylic-on-paper piece, 5.8 by 8.3 inches, as part of an auction to help the Soane digitize its extensive drawings collection. On June 22, Steven Holl found he was the new owner of the unframed work: His bid of $2,500 is being matched by the Leon Levy Foundation in this intensive effort to electronically archive 18,000 items. Holl
There’s a new resource for young architects navigating the tricky waters of international work authorization: Architect-US. Sponsored by the Spain-United States Chamber of Commerce, the new organization, launching June 25, will place international visa candidates in United States-based architecture firms. Architect-US will screen participants, help with the State Department’s J-1 visa application process, and match qualified candidates to employers. The J-1 visa allows students and recent graduates to work as interns for up to 12 months; young professionals can work as trainees for up to 18. The full-time positions will provide real-world experience and compensation, with interns earning at least
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.
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