A revival finally opens in New York’s Union Square. The restored pavilion at night. Nearly four years after it was painstakingly restored by Architecture Research Office (ARO), the Beaux Arts pavilion at the north end of New York City’s Union Square finally opened to the public in May. Delayed by a lawsuit over its use, the open-air building serves as a restaurant from May through October and then as a multiuse space for educational and community activities the rest of the year. Critics of the project said a commercially-operated restaurant was inappropriate in a public park, while supporters countered that
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has been collecting architecture and design since 1870, when it was given a Roman sarcophagus. More recent acquisitions include a stairway from the Chicago Stock Exchange Building, by Louis Sullivan, and an entire living room by Frank Lloyd Wright.
An exhibition at the Architecture and Design Museum riffs off of S, M, L, XL by Bruce Mau and Rem Koolhaas and explores the ways in which Los Angeles has nurtured design at all scales, from tiny to enormous. Cut Bend Fold Score, by Jonathan Louie, uses postcard sized models to reconfigure the forms found in S, M, L, XL. Come In! S,M,L,XLA is the Los Angeles Architecture and Design Museum's new exhibition of work by young, local design practitioners. Devoted to “spatial interventions reflecting on the inquiry of scale," the group show (through August 31) takes inspiration from
Dancing architectural models channel "West Side Story" as a group of artists pay homage to the architect in an unusual exhibition. Gunpowder-equipped mobiles by artist Cai Guo-Qiang illuminate models of Frank Gehry's work in Solaris Chronicles, an exhibition at the future site of LUMA Arles. In 2018, Frank Gehry’s 180-foot-tall Arts Resource Center, with towering swaths of pixelated-looking steel, is set to open on a 20-acre former train repair site in the South of France. It will be the centerpiece of LUMA Arles, an art and culture campus founded by Swiss collector Maja Hoffmann that is slowly taking shape
Entrepreneur Ivan Pun and New York-based architecture firm Leong Leong have transformed a transit shed into a light-filled space showcasing rotating art exhibitions, design-oriented retail, a restaurant, and other programming. The gritty, textured exterior of the shed contrasts with the light, minimal interior. To visit Yangon, Myanmar, now is to experience a city in flux. The downtown riverfront, once a bustling cosmopolitan dream, is home to streets lined with stately old colonial buildings, full of lost history and oozing with potential. Amidst the recent handover of power from the military to a civilian government, rustlings of revitalization projects
Museum curators tend to stay behind the scenes, especially when high-profile artists are involved. But the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, which runs through October 19, has been so lavishly praised that its curator, Scott Rothkopf, couldn’t stay out of the spotlight if he tried.
The recovery of the office-building construction market began slowly at first, lagging behind other commercial property types. But the sector's rebound is beginning to pick up energy as U.S. job growth improves. Click the image above to view a full presentation of these stats [PDF].
Architects seeking safe, sustainable materials for their buildings have often had to operate in either an information vacuum or wade through an array of rating systems that can be burdensome and baffling. The complexity of supply chains sometimes means that no one is certain what substances a product contains; in other cases, a known material passes muster with one program while raising red flags with another. Manufacturers, too, struggle with the discrepancies and redundancies of different programs' reporting requirements. Now, with support from the U.S. Green Building Council, four major green-manufacturing organizations are striving to simplify the process of assessing
This article first appeared on ENR. Four months after URS agreed to an activist investor's demand for a reshaped board and new strategic options to boost its share price, the firm is set to be acquired by AECOM. The deal, worth about $6 billion in cash, stock, and assumed debt, would keep URS intact. The firms, which announced the transaction on July 13, said it would create the latest global giant, particularly in oil, gas, power, and government services, with more than $19 billion in revenue and 95,000 employees in 150 countries. The $56.31 per share price is about 19
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