Richard Meier, Peter Eisenman, and Paola Antonelli pay tribute to their collaborator and mentor. From left: Tadao Ando, Lella Vignelli, Richard Meier, and Massimo Vignelli, in January 1990. Massimo Vignelli, one of the leading graphic artists of his generation who designed some of the most recognized logos and branding materials of the second half of the 20th century, died Tuesday after a long illness. He was 83. Vignelli applied his strict minimalist aesthetic to some of America’s most iconic brands, designing the austere American Airlines logo, consisting of sans-serif AAs, introduced in 1967 and used until it was replaced last
With a small staff based in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, David Benjamin is taking his young, research-based firm, The Living, to the next level. Living Light, 2009The LivingSeoulThis permanent pavilion in a public park uses LEDs and data from government-monitored sensors to map air quality throughout the city. David Benjamin, the principal of Brooklyn-based firm The Living, is not one for convention. His research interests—mussels, slime mold, bone growth, to name a few—are not exactly mainstream. But his unusual design approach—the application of biological systems to architecture, coupled with a geeky software and programming sensibility—has led to collaborations with a
REX principal Joshua Prince-Ramus is renovating a Brutalist office building near Hudson Yards. For his firm’s first project in New York City, REX principal Joshua Prince-Ramus is giving an unloved Brutalist office building a $200 million makeover. The firm unveiled plans yesterday for the renovation of 450 West 33rd Street, a 16-story, pyramid-shaped edifice dating to 1969 in Midtown Manhattan.
Jon Lott, the principal of New York'based Para-Project, says he wants the firm's work to allure while raising questions. “Ambiguity, distortion, and estrangement are essential tools for me,” says the architect, who cofounded the practice months after graduating with his M.Arch. from Harvard's Graduate School of Design in 2005.
Two New York artists, seeking a respite from city life, had lofty energy-saving goals for the renovation of a modest house, built in 1975, on a jagged bluff overlooking Long Island Sound.
The New York City firm transforms a former parking lot into an urban garden and teaching space for an elementary school. A public elementary school in New York City is an odd place to come across an abundance of fine, farm-fresh dining options—until now. At P.S. 216, a pre-K to 5th grade school in working class Gravesend, Brooklyn, a team of architects has transformed a parking lot into a verdant garden, greenhouse, and interactive culinary classroom where students learn to grow and cook their own fruit, vegetables, and herbs. Earlier this week, the architects at WORKac, a firm based in