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

Highlights from the renowned ceramic tile show, held in Bologna in September, reveal bold new directions.

New York-based architect Toshiko Mori has been tapped to design a new home for the Center for Maine Contemporary Art (CMCA). The non-collecting museum, a fixture in the harbor village of Rockport since its founding by a group of local artists in 1952, has chosen a new site 10 miles south of its current location in the commercial center of Rockland, where it plans to open in 2015. Photo © Sioux Nesi Toshiko Mori No stranger to Maine’s rocky coastline, or its thriving art scene, Mori has shared a house in the midcoast with her husband, the artist James Carpenter,

Image courtesy Storefront for Art and Architecture The curators of the United States's Pavilion at the 2014 Architecture Biennale in Venice call their project OfficeUS. The curators of the United States Pavilion at the 2014 Architecture Biennale in Venice have very ambitious plans: to transform an exhibition space into an architectural office. Announced last week, the State Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs selected the team of Ashley Schafer, Ana Miljački, and Eva Franch i Gilabert and their proposal to reinterpret the last 100 years of American building outside our borders in a project called OfficeUS. "We want to

A model of Renzo Piano's Parco della Musica (2002) in Rome, on display at Manhattan's Gagosian gallery. The art and architecture worlds have come together of late for several exhibitions at some of the most prominent art galleries in New York. The Marlborough Gallery announced this spring that it was adding Spanish architect and engineer Santiago Calatrava to its roster of artists, just in time to feature his work during the all-important Armory Show. Often the subject of solo exhibitions at museums worldwide, Maya Lin’s Here and There at Pace Gallery just closed. The latest convergence of these sometimes disparate