Building on HafenCity's success, the German city of Hamburg reinvents its Elbe Islands as a test bed for innovative and experimental mixed-use projects. This article first appeared on GreenSource. The "Building Exhibition within the Building Exhibition" is home to 18 futuristic housing complexes. In 2007 the International Building Exhibition (IBA) Hamburg – a real-time urban research and development laboratory – began to shine its spotlight on the city’s Wilhelmsburg district, the world’s largest inhabited river island outside Manhattan. IBA Hamburg follows the unmitigated, mixed-used triumph of Hamburg’s HafenCity. Ten years ago HafenCity was an abandoned port and industrial center, wasting
Five days after the Museum of Modern Art announced it would raze the former home of the American Folk Art Museum (which it purchased in 2011) for a planned expansion, the controversy continues to simmer.
Behnisch Architekten and Ayers Saint Gross consolidate the School of Law's program under one roof for the first time in its 88-year history. The University of Baltimore's John and Frances Angelos Law Center, designed by Behnisch Architekten and Ayers Saint Gross. Vice President Joe Biden, Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley, and other legal luminaries convene in midtown Baltimore today to attend a preview of the John and Frances Angelos Law Center at the University of Baltimore. The 192,000-square-foot building, designed by Behnisch Architekten in partnership with Ayers Saint Gross, consolidates classrooms, offices, clinics, and a library for the first time in
A look at some of the off-site exhibits during Milan’s Design Week. Composite steel-bar furnishings from the Belgian design studio Muller Van Severen on display in the Lambrate district in Milan. For those who see the Milan furniture fair as a cultural event, and are less interested in the ups and downs of the contract furniture business, it’s all about the fringe. Away from the wheeler-dealing hordes of the Saloni, the city blossoms with design exhibitions that are less commercial and more searching, more propositional. This year, however, there seemed to be less of the curated, thematic shows that have
After years of instability and sharp declines, the housing market is finally on the rebound. Both new construction and home renovations have posted recent gains, a good sign for the entire U.S. economy. Source: McGraw-Hill Dodge Analytics Click the image above to view a full presentation of these stats [PDF].
In this issue of RECORD, we explore works of architecture as urban catalysts—buildings that raise the stakes for design in their neighborhoods while successfully engaging the surrounding context.
The parlous state of the economy seems to be making manufacturers risk averse and innovation shy. The Bikini Island modular island sofa by Werner Aisslinger for Moroso. Milan makes a habit of celebrating its own heroes. Every year, the Triennale holds an exhibition dedicated to the same (now mostly dead) maestri—Sottsass, Mendini, Magistretti, and the like. Wonderful though that generation was, Milan ought to be a place that generates new heroes. But this year, far from being a hotbed of innovation, Milan was in the grip of the tried and tested. Where normally the fringe events are so numerous and
Sizing up the firm's new collection for Knoll at the Milan furniture fair. The Tools for Life collection is on view during the 2013 Salone del Mobile at Prada’s Milan exhibition space at via Fogazzaro, 36. One of the interesting aspects of the Milan furniture fair in the last couple of years is the way in which a particular group of journalists and critics has set the agenda before the fair has even begun. In 2011, there was a concerted move to raise awareness of the way designers are not always fairly treated by the design industry (this is a
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