The 53rd edition of the Salone Internazionale del Mobile (International Furniture Fair) officially gets underway tomorrow, but Monday in Milan is an opportunity to preview events and product introductions throughout the city center, before the trek to the Massimiliano Fuksas-designed fairgrounds in the Eastern suburb of Rho.
In July 2012, Dominique Perrault Architecture won a competition to transform France's biggest post office into a mixed-use municipal and commercial facility. The Poste Centrale du Louvre (Central Post Office of the Louvre) in Paris was built between 1880 and 1888. For French architect Dominique Perrault, 2014 is off to an impressive start. Last month, he inaugurated two new projects—DC Tower 1 in Vienna and a Grand Theater for the small town of Albi in southern France. At the same time that his Paris-based firm is designing tall buildings and large developments throughout Europe and Asia, he’s taken on several
The newly completed tower along the Danube is the tallest in Austria. The tower, overlooking Vienna, has a facade of folded glass planes that appear to weave in and out. The heart of Vienna lies within its famous Ringstrasse—a circular road completed nearly 150 years ago punctuated with Neo-Renaissance, Neo-Baroque, and Neo-Gothic monuments, and later, icons of Viennese Secession architecture. Like most modern capitals however, Vienna has expanded well beyond its historic center. In recent decades, the city has embraced a part of its geography it had long shied away from—the fabled Danube River. Donau City, or Danube City, began
If it were only a case of “practice what you preach,” the sustainably designed Midwest offices of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) would offer an impressive enough example, with a new space that exploits daylight and incorporates reclaimed materials.
High Marks Below Grade: Limited by a dense site and preservation concerns, an Italian firm creates an underground academy in the heart of a South Tyrol city’s historic center.
Limited by a dense site and preservation concerns, an Italian firm creates an underground academy in the heart of a South Tyrol city’s historic center.
This article first appeared on GreenSource. Renderings of KPF's Sequis Centre Tower Indonesia’s burgeoning economy has turned Jakarta into a hotbed of construction activity. Crews broke ground last week on the Sequis Centre Tower in the city’s central business district. Designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF) to be Indonesia’s first LEED Platinum building, the mixed-use tower includes office space, executive zones, trading floors, boutique retail, restaurants, conference centers, heath facilities, and concealed parking. In response to the diverse program and in contrast to Jakarta’s conventional all-glass rectilinear office buildings, Sequis Centre Tower’s massing “recomposes an extruded tower into four
As the design world converges on Miami this week for Design Miami’s ninth annual congregation of curators, collectors, critics, and celebrities, design icons from the past are taking center stage.
Grimshaw transforms a one-time World's Fair pavilion into a series of light-filled exhibition spaces. The west facade of the renovated Queens Museum features glass panels illuminated with programmable LED lighting. Built to house the New York City Pavilion for the 1939 World’s Fair, whose theme was “World of Tomorrow,” the now nearly 75-year-old Queens Museum of Art building has certainly seen its share of yesterdays. It was a recreation center, a home to the General Assembly of the newly formed United Nations from 1946 to 1950, a pavilion once again for the 1964 World’s Fair, and for much of the