During this season of Michael Graves, the architect's work is being celebrated in exhibitions and is the subject of a daylong symposium. Michael Graves Denver Central Library Assessing the legacy of Michael Graves is no small task. During a 50-year career, Graves has completed so many projects that the current retrospective at Grounds for Sculpture (an indoor-outdoor art park near Trenton, New Jersey) requires several buildings. Some parts of the exhibition are organized by decade—starting with the all-white houses of the 1970s and ending with the anything-but-white buildings of recent decades; others are arranged by category (toasters alone could fill
The film crew, including Bassett (center) talks to John Boiler, CEO of 72andSunny, a design and advertising agency. By day the CEO of design and brand strategy firm Bassett & Partners, Tom Bassett moonlights as an occasional filmmaker. His first film, the 18-minute Connecting released in 2012, was co-produced by Microsoft Design and focused on the “Internet of Things.” His latest work is more ambitious. Briefly, a 26-minute film released for free online last month that explores how some uber-creatives work with, bend, manipulate, and subvert the document that kicks it all off—the project brief—to accomplish great end products. “We
Paul Rudolph's Sarasota High School—a boldly conceived 1958-60 addition to an older building, with folded concrete planes that emphasize the play of light and shadow—is being restored. Sarasota’s preservation community is feeling the pressure. With no ironclad protections in place, the Gulf Coast Florida city—which, thanks largely to Paul Rudolph, who maintained a presence there from 1941 until 1962, became an epicenter of architectural ingenuity—is in a race to save what’s left of its repository of significant mid-20th century homes, schools, and churches. Among the fallen: Rudolph’s elegant, skeletal steel Riverview High School, designed in 1958 and demolished, after an
The Fulton Center's metal-clad oculus can be seen emerging from Grimshaw’s steel and glass station. The 125-year-old Corbin building, to the right of the station, was renovated and provides another entrance into the station. For months, commuters have been traveling through the almost complete Fulton Center, the transit hub conceived for Lower Manhattan in the wake of the September 11 attacks. But much of the $1.4 billion complex was off limits, hidden by temporary partitions and construction tarps as final construction and systems testing wrapped up. But the tarps and partitions have come down and nearly a decade after the
Fourteen years in the making, the imposing and controversial museum opened this fall. The Museum is located in the Forks, a large park adjacent to Winnipeg’s downtown. Rising more than three hundred feet in the Winnipeg skyline, the tower of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights aspired to be a “beacon for humanity.” But despite its inclusive goals, the massive building has proven to be as much a lightning rod as a beacon. Designed by Antoine Predock Architect, with Canadian firm Architecture 49 as executive architect, the museum was first conceived in 2000 by late Winnipeg media mogul Israel Asper.
On October 31st, the Wood Innovation and Design Centre (WIDC)—a 96-foot-tall, 51,000 square foot structure built almost entirely out of engineered wood components—opened in Prince George, British Columbia.
An artist urges New Orleans, by some measures the fastest growing city in America, to think about the implications of changing population. An enormous public art installation on view in New Orleans is a force to be reckoned with. And that’s the point. The piece, created by New York City-based artist Tavares Strachan and presented as a part of the Prospect.3 art exhibition, is deceptively straightforward: A giant 100-foot-long magenta neon sign with the words “You belong here” scrawled in refined cursive. But don't be fooled by the playful pink lights—the cheery words belie a searing commentary.The subtext of the
Last week in New Orleans the U.S. Green Building Council fulfilled a promise it made—after hurricanes Katrina and Rita pounded the Gulf Coast in 2005—to bring the organization’s annual Greenbuild show to the Big Easy.
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