New York City's local NPR station, WNYC, just ran a brief story about UrbanCanvas, a join initiative of the Department of Buildings and Department of Cultural Affairs that has eight artists competing to dress up the fences, sidewalk sheds, scaffolds, and nets that separate pedestrians from construction sites. View a slideshow of UrbanCanvas contenders at WNYC and then vote for your favorite on the competition site.
I have to say up front that I was never much for dropping acid. Even without it I’m constantly seeing things that aren’t there, some of them are quite unpleasant, and in general they depress me. That leads me to the Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health.
While Frank Gehry's lamps, currently on view in an exhibition at NYC's Jewish Museum, may be a failure, the show has an interesting argument to make about the influential/inspiration role of fish forms in Gehry's career.
The topic of MoMA’s latest show, the evolution of the modern kitchen, has universal appeal: Everyone spends some time in their kitchen, even if it’s just reheating leftovers.
Richard Meier revealed last night that his design plans for a new home for actor Rowan Atkinson in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB)in Oxfordshire, England were approved by the South Oxfordshire District Council. This will be Meier's first built work in Great Britain.
It's finally official: After months of speculation, Eli Broad announced that Diller Scofidio + Renfro will design his Broad Collection museum on Grant Avenue in Los Angeles. Construction on the 120,000-square-foot museum, for which the Santa Monica office of Gemsler will serve as executive architect, is anticipated to begin in spring 2011 and to be completed in late 2012.
While the design team for the controversial mosque and community center near the World Trade Center site has not yet been named, the developer--who himself " wanted to be an architect "--has pointed to two recently completed (but very different) New York City buildings as possible models for his vision of of what final shape his Park 51 might take.
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