Olajumoke Adenowo has been practicing architecture in Nigeria for more than a quarter of a century. Still, she became significantly better known when CNN named her “Africa’s star architect” in December, as part of a report on her Lagos-based practice, AD Consulting.
Presidents Barack Obama and Raúl Castro stunned the world on December 17, 2014, when they announced that the United States and Cuba would restore diplomatic relations after 55 years of estrangement.
The pace of construction in the K-12 market is expected to quicken over the coming years as the fiscal condition of city and state governments improves and the economy continues to rebound. Click the image above to view a full presentation of these stats [PDF].
Design-oriented nonprofits and foundations choose their best contributions to the built environment last year. The Design Trust for Public Space erected the Boogie Down Booth as part of its Under the Elevated project. The temporary installation transformed an underused space beneath subway tracks in the South Bronx into a seated bus stop with solar-powered lighting and directional speakers playing local artists’ music. The end of one year and the start of a new one belong to the makers of lists—of most fascinating people, brightest ideas, and biggest red-carpet disasters. At RECORD, we decided to combine clickbait and goodwill, asking a
The exhibition center as it looks today. Last spring, the sound of hammers started up, reverberating along the wide pedestrian avenues of the All-Russia Exhibition Center in Moscow (known to Muscovites as VDNKh). After decades of neglect, the city of Moscow has begun the process of renovating the most iconic pavilions of its 13,000-acre, Stalin-era exhibition center. The cheap cafes and makeshift booths selling seeds or electronics that had occupied the ornate spaces built to showcase Ukraine, Belarus, Azerbaijan, and others have been dismantled. A couple of slick new food courts and the city’s chicest McDonald’s have gone in.But, say
Currently on view at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris is Olafur Eliasson: Contact, a monographic exhibition devoted to the internationally renowned Danish-Icelandic artist. In his show, which closes February 16, Eliasson explores the mysterious spatial effects of electric light, mirrors, and other materials to superbly complement the architecture of the strikingly sculptural building designed by Frank Gehry.
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