The BLUEPRINT exhibition, curated by SO–IL and Sebastiaan Bremer, is currently on view at the Storefront for Art and Architecture. The blueprint, invented in the 1840s, was ubiquitous in architecture offices—to which it lent a slightly acrid smell—for much of the 20th century. Now the medium confers a certain authenticity, a kind of Instragram-ish patina, says architect Florian Idenburg, though, he notes that paradoxically, a blueprint is also a plan for the future. Building on that paradox, Idenburg and Jing Liu (his partner in the architecture firm SO–IL Solid Objectives) and artist Sebastiaan Bremer have created BLUEPRINT, a show
The renovation market is relatively immune to economic ups and downs with fairly stable performance in both good times and bad. For the coming year, the value of renovation construction starts is expected to grow 6%, to $45.3 billion. Click the image above to view a full presentation of these stats [PDF].
At the National September 11 Memorial & Museum at the World Trade Center site, beneath the fountains conceived by Michael Arad and an entry pavilion by Snøhetta, Manhattan architects Davis Brody Bond created a series of inspiring spaces, set between the slurry wall of the original World Trade Center and equally powerful elements of their own devising.
Andrés Jaque designs a water purifying pavilion for MoMA PS1. COSMO, the winner of MoMA PS1’s Young Architects Program, by Andrés Jaque, will naturally purify water 3,000 gallons every four days this summer. Can plumbing be sexy? Architect Andrés Jaque, a 2014 Design Vanguard winner, proposes that it can indeed with COSMO, a gargantuan water-purifying pavilion. On February 5, the Museum of Modern Art’s contemporary-art space MoMA PS1 announced Jaque’s design as winner of its annual Young Architects Program and as the centerpiece of its outdoor music series in the courtyard of the Long Island City building. The other finalists
More than five years since Human Rights Watch (HRW) first documented migrant labor abuses on Saadiyat Island—the impressive cultural development off the coast of Abu Dhabi—abuse remains, according to a progress report issued by the organization today.
The first version of B&B's Landscape chaise lounge, designed by Jeffrey Bernett, was released in 2001. Rumors are swirling that Knoll—makers of such classics as Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona Chair, Marcel Breuer's Wassily Chair, and Eero Saarinen's Tulip and Womb Chairs—is ready to buy contemporary Italian furniture line B&B Italia, known for stylishly elegant pieces by the likes of Antonio Citterio, Patricia Urquiola, and Mario Bellini. For its part, B&B Italia issued a denial of the rumors late Friday evening, following a story about the potential sale to Knoll on Italian website Pambianco.com, a go-to news source among Italy's
A cultural foundation brings designers to Dhaka and announces a new institute for architecture, landscapes, and settlements. A view of the old city of Dhaka near the Buriganga River. Political unrest and sporadic violence on highways and roads in Bangladesh provided the backdrop to a three-day architectural conference in the country’s capital, Dhaka, in mid-January. Organized by the Bengal Foundation, a private trust dedicated to promoting the arts in Bangladesh, the event brought together speakers such as Fumihiko Maki, William J.R. Curtis, and Ken Yeang to examine how notions of “place” and “presence” shape the built environment. Other participants included
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