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.
David Mohney has taken a one-year-leave from the University of Kentucky College of Architecture to help create the Michael Graves School at Kean University, which will have two campuses, one in New Jersey and the other in Wenzhou, China.
A project of The Missing 32%, the results of the largest known grassroots architectural survey to date were released last weekend at the sold-out Equity by Design symposium in San Francisco.
With help from a California-based architect and engineer, Rafael Viñoly's Walkie-Talkie building in London is getting a system of aluminum fins to diminish its destructive reflectivity. Image via City of London A rendering of 20 Fenchurch shows how it will look with aluminum brise soleils. The 37-story building at 20 Fenchurch Street in London was first nicknamed the Walkie-Talkie, for its shape, and then the Walkie-Scorchie, for its reflectivity. Sun bouncing off its south façade melted part of a car last year, exciting tabloid editors and sending the building’s owners searching for a fix. Image via City of London
The Domus shelter in front of Materials & Applications in Los Angeles. Every day, the earth quivers and convulses. Hardly anyone notices. The United States Geological Survey (USGS) estimates there are 500,000 detectable earthquakes in the world each year; only 20 percent of those can be felt by human beings. In Los Angeles—in a bid to open the eyes of an endangered community—artist and engineer D.V. Rogers, along with a group of volunteers, has constructed Domus, an experimental installation that allows visitors to experience the world’s constant, pulsating seismic activity. “The idea is create a contemplative space that will help
The Kings Theatre under renovation. Shuttered for almost 40 years, the ornamental façade of the Kings Theatre—towering over the storefronts along Brooklyn, New York's busy Flatbush Avenue—stood as a sad reminder of the area’s decline, beginning in the 1970s, from a once glorious past. Now its decorative terracotta panels and sculptural flourishes are a sign of progress as the theater prepares to reopen in January 2015. The façade, however, does not come close to equaling the splendor of the newly restored interiors. Opened in 1929 as one of five Loew’s Wonder Theatres constructed in New York and New Jersey, it
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