With more than 17.4 million residents and a growing middle class eager to trade its Mao-era housing for new apartments, Beijing has been building residential towers at a breathless clip for much of the past decade.
Project Specs Linked Hybrid Beijing, China Steven Holl Architects << Return to article the People Architect Steven Holl Architects 450 W. 31st street, 11th floor T: 212-629-7262 F: 212-629-7312 Design architects Steven Holl, Li Hu Partner in Charge Li Hu Project Architect Hideki Hirahara Assistant Project Architect Yenling Chen Technical advisors Chris McVoy, Tim Bade Project Designers Garrick Ambrose, Yimei Chan, Rodolfo Dias, Gong Dong, Peter Englaender, Guido Guscianna, Young Jang, Edward Lalonde, JongSeo Lee, Richard Liu, James MacGillivray, Matthew Uselman Project team Jason Anderson, Lei Bao, Christian Beerli, Johnna Brazier, Cosimo Caggiula, Kefei Cai, Guanlan Cao, Shih-I Chow, Sofie
A tectonic shift took place among winners at this year’s World Architecture Festival (WAF), as projects from developing countries accounted for a significantly larger percent of the honors than they had in the past.
Project Specs High Line New York James Corner Field Operations and Diller Scofidio + Renfro << Return to article the People Architect James Corner Field Operations 475 Tenth Avenue, 10th fl New York, NY 10018 Phone: 212 433 1450 Fax: 212 433 1451 Diller Scofidio + Renfro 601 West 26th Street, Suite 1815 New York, NY 10001 T: 212-260-7971 F: 212-260-7924 James Corner Field Operations Project Leader / Landscape Architecture / Urban Design James Corner, Lisa Switkin, Nahyun Hwang, Sierra Bainbridge, Tom Jost, Danilo Martic, Tatiana von Preussen, Maura Rockcastle, Tom Ryan, Lara Shihab-Eldin, Heeyeun Yoon, Hong Zhou Diller Scofidio
Lorcan O’Herlihy and Stephen Kanner refer to the checkerboard wall snaking through their Performance Capture Studio (PCS) north of San Francisco as a “strange loop,” a term used in film and other arts to describe something that breaks down the usual hierarchies of time or space and ends up where it started.
Project Specs Art Gallery of Ontario Toronto, Canada Gehry International << Return to article the People Team Aaron Turner Adam Wheeler Anna Marie Flaherty Apurva Pande Cara Cragan Colby Mayes Craig Gilbert Dave Hardie David Pakshong Doug Glenn Doug Pierson Elizabeth Grace George Metzger Heather Waters Henry Brawner Jason Tax Jeff Guga John Passmore Julie Lai Karen Tom Laura Bachelder Laura Killam Lauren Taylor Leif Halverson Leon Cheng Lisa Cage Monica Valtierra Day Natalie Magarian Nathalie Kull Patrick Hwang Peter Buffington Randy Jefferson Rogan Ferguson Ronald A. Rosell Stephen Traeger Su Kim Susan Beningfield Zach Burns the Products Curtain
Nearly 16 years after founding Costa Rica’s trailblazing architecture school, Universidad del Diseño (UniDis), Alvaro Rojas, AIA, has decided to close it.