The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City is getting a surprisingly tall, and stunningly slender, neighbor. Real estate developer Hines is planning a 75-story tower designed by Ateliers Jean Nouvel for a narrow, 17,000-square-foot site directly west of the museum. When complete, the building is expected to rise nearly as high as the 1,047-foot-tall Chrysler Building. Images courtesy Ateliers Jean Nouvel Atelier Jean Nouvel has designed a 75-story tower for a slender site adjacent to the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan (left). The building could rise more than 1,000 feet tall (right). Hines purchased the land
Philip Johnson was perhaps the most famous of the Harvard Five and the only one of these noted mid-century Modernists whose entire residential oeuvre remains standing. That might soon change. The New Canaan Historical Review Committee’s demolition delay on his 1953 Alice Ball House, in New Canaan, Connecticut, expires today. Photos courtesy Connecticut Trust for Historic Preservation Located on one of New Canaan’s ritziest streets, the 1,700-square-foot Alice Ball House was designed by Philip Johnson and was finished in 1953 (top). It features 10-foot ceilings, glass-enclosed living areas, and private bedroom and service areas (above). Related Links: Philip Johnson's Glass
Correction appended February 01, 2008 RK Stewart, FAIA, the most-recent past president of the American Institute of Architects (AIA), is leaving the San Francisco office of Gensler and moving down the street to join Perkins + Will, he confirmed in an exclusive interview with RECORD today. As an associate principal, Stewart, who starts his new job on February 7, will focus on commercial and civic projects with an emphasis on sustainable design. Perkins + Will has offices in 43 countries and 49 states. As a principal at Gensler, which has offices in five countries and 18 states, Stewart had specialized
Spain’s highest court has upheld the decision in a 17-year-old case that requires the removal of a controversial 1993 restoration of a Roman theater in the coastal city of Sagunto.
There was a time when architects designed furniture at the start of their careers while patiently waiting for their first buildings to be constructed. In 1972, some six years before Frank Gehry created a stir with his unorthodox house in Santa Monica, California, he was designing his beloved cardboard chairs.
A ceremonial groundbreaking took place on Wednesday for Frank Gehry’s new home for the New World Symphony orchestra in Miami Beach. The $200 million building, featuring a 700-seat performance hall, will be part of a campus located behind the orchestra’s existing facility, Lincoln Theatre. “Though its simple, rectilinear design doesn’t offer the daring of the titanium-roofed Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, or the audacious sail-like curves of the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, the yet-to-be-named facility will solve logistical problems faced by the New World Symphony,”The Miami Herald wrote on January 22. The orchestra’s current home has “acoustical
The California Building Standards Commission (CBSC) moved in December 2007 to allow the re-classification of potentially hundreds of seismically questionable hospitals in the state to avoid possible closure due to code non-compliance. The decision will likely ripple through the large market for health care design and construction that developed following Southern California’s Northridge earthquake in 1994, which left many hospitals still standing, but structurally unsound. “This is giving hospitals more time to do what’s right,” says Chris Poland, a structural engineer and the president and CEO of San Francisco-based Degenkolb Engineers. After the 1994 earthquake, Poland served on an advisory
The Serpentine Gallery, in London, has chosen Frank Gehry to design this year’s summertime pavilion. Gehry is the first American to be commissioned to design the structure, which he will realize in four months for a June launch.
The Smithsonian-affiliated National Museum for American Jewish History (NMAJH), the nation’s only museum documenting the Jewish-American experience, has assiduously expanded its collection from 40 objects, when it opened in 1976, to more than 20,000. In doing so, it has outgrown the meager 6,000 square feet of exhibition space in its current home, a half-block from the spot on Philadelphia’s Independence Mall where it is constructing a new 100,000-square-foot complex designed by Polshek Partnership. NMAJH hopes that when the $150 million space opens on July 4, 2010, it will be able to expand its programming and quintuple its attendance to 250,000