Jan 28
Taipei Performing Arts Centre by OMA
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Architects Office for Metropolitan Architecture have won a competition to design a new performing arts centre in Taipei, Taiwan. (more…)
Jan 27
Ex Fonderie Riunite by Modostudio, CCDP and Studio Cattinari
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A team of Italian architects comprising Modostudio, CCDP and Studio Cattinari have won first prize in a competition to regenerate a former industrial area in Modena, Italy, into a mixed-use public space. (more…)
Jan 27
The New Yorkers Paul Goldberger Takes a Walk Around the New Alice Tully Hall
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We can’t embed the video, which makes us sadder than a box full of crying puppies, but fortunately it’s all just a click away. Thanks to a point in the right direction from Archinect, we were led to a video version of the New Yorker‘s architecture critic Paul Goldberger‘s tour of the just finished renovating Alice Tully Hall, which is part of Lincoln Center. Like an earlier post we had up featuring a tour of Renzo Piano‘s addition to Chicago’s Art Institute, if you’re interested to see what Diller Scofidio + Renfro and FXFOWLE‘s work looks like before the official opening on February 22nd, or you just like taking a sneak peek at architecture, mid-construction, it’s just the ticket (even though, before it was all wrapped up, they really didn’t seem to have given permission to Goldberger to go anywhere else but inside the lobby). It might also help ease your tension if you’d been passing by the construction at Lincoln Center recently, wondering if they were actually doing anything inside or just blocking the roads to make you mad.
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Jan 27
Casa Llorens by Eneseis Arquitectura
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Spanish architects Eneseis Arquitectura have completed a family residence in Alicante, Spain. (more…)
Jan 26
Meeting the Glass Houses Neighbor
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Elsewhere in the world of famous, rural East Coast architecture, the New York Times‘ Pilar Viladas took a walk around the Glass House‘s neighborhood and put together this great piece and slideshow about the residence across the street, also designed by the immortal Philip Johnson. What seems like the more practical, livable version of its more famous relation across the street, Johnson designed the building for a family, resulting in a similar look but more multi-functional. The photos are great and the story of the houses’ construction is really interesting, from the way it was built in pieces to this bit about how the original family found Johnson in the first place:
When Richard Hodgson and his wife, Geraldine, first visited the five acres on which the 4,550-square-foot house now sits, a man crossed the road to ask them if they had an architect. They said no, whereupon Johnson offered his services.
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Jan 26
Robert Venturi Struggles to Save House From Wrecking Ball in Just 10 Days
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Famed designer and architect Robert Venturi is going to be busy over what’s sure to be a stressful next couple of days. After a house he designed in 1968 in Long Beach Island, New Jersey was recently sold, the new owners of the property said they were planning to demolish the house and build something new. This didn’t sit well with Venturi who decided to make a deal with himself and the new owners: if he could move the house out in ten days, it would be spared. So now the race is on, with a crew trying to move it onto a barge where it will be moved to Long Island where a couple have already agreed to purchase it. Assuming Venturi can get through a city council somewhat hostile to the idea of loading a house onto a boat in the middle of their town, the process should hopefully be going full steam soon, all of which should make great footage for his son, who is in the middle of making a documentary about his father. Here’s a bit about the house:
The Lieb House, a two-story box-shaped home, now gray and weather-beaten, features a five-foot-high number 9 next to its front door and a 24-foot-wide stoop that stretches across the front of the home. In August 1970, an article in the New York Times called the Liebs’ vacation retreat a “real dumb house” in a “banal environment.” Robert Venturi’s son, Jim, said his father embraced the word “dumb”.
“Dumb sort of means the opposite of showy. The home gets its artistic identity through the iconic elements – its large nine, round window and the original two-tone tile,” Jim Venturi said.
Can we tell you how much we love that the Times used to write things like “a real dumb house” in their architecture reviews?
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Jan 25
Split Rotate by Nicos Kalogirou
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Split & Rotate, a holiday home designed by architect Nicos Kalogirou, has been nominated for the Mies van der Rohe Award 2009.
Jan 23
Zaha Hadid to Design Port Authority…in Belgium
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(Zaha Hadid Architects)
When Zaha Hadid‘s press office told us that she had won the competition to design a new building for the Port Authority, we couldn’t contain our excitement: at long last, an end to bus trips that begin or end in a sticky-floored subterranean doom chamber! Alas, Hadid won’t be bringing her swooping lines and shimmering pods to Times Square anytime soon. The Port Authority she’s impressed is that of Antwerp, Belgium.
Zaha Hadid Architects has been selected to build Port House, the new headquarters of the Antwerp Port Authority. Located on the boundary of the city and its harbor, the building will consist of a former fire station (a Hadid favorite!) and a new extension described as “a crystalline volume lifted above the retained building.” The design of Hadid and Patrik Schumacher calls for the glass- and aluminum-paneled extension to be supported by three sculpted concrete pillars that will contain stairs and elevators. Its asymmetric position over the central courtyard of the existing fire station will allow light to enter the heart of the building. “The dichotomy between the reflective, faceted form of the new extension and the powerful structural mass of the existing fire station creates a bold and enigmatic statement for the city,” said Hadid in a statement issued earlier this week.
Click “continued…” for three of Hadid’s renderings for the project. They were enough to make us seriously consider moving to Antwerp and becoming involved in the shipping trade—or at least inquiring as to whether Ann Demeulemeester is in the market for a housekeeper/blogger.
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Jan 23
AIAs Billing Index Inches Up Slightly
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When it’s one bad economic story after another, you look for any ray of sunshine you can, no matter how small the detail or how relatively bleak it still all is in context. Such is the little bit of hope in the American Institute of Architects‘ latest Architecture Billing Index for December, which took a slight increase over the utterly depressing low the month prior (you’ll recall that we discussed that here). Although increasing just barely over a point and still well-below the score of 50 that indicates an increase in billings, maybe this is a sign of what the AIA’s new president, Marvin Malecha, had forecasted, that things will turn around for the industry in ’09. Here’s a bit:
…the December ABI rating was 36.4, up from the 34.7 mark in November (any score above 50 indicates an increase in billings). The inquiries for new projects score was 37.7.
“The inability to get financing for construction projects is a key reason that business conditions continue to be so poor at design firms,” said AIA Chief Economist Kermit Baker, PhD, Hon. AIA. “It will be important to see what the proposed economic stimulus package includes that is geared towards the construction industry, and how quickly developers who have had to put projects on hold can get them moving again.”
Also, only vaguely related but worth talking about here none the less, we found this story interesting, that the College of Architecture at Texas Tech has now decided to require all of its students to study abroad after their senior year to earn their diploma. Their reasoning: to get a well-rounded, worldly view of the industry and, as the college’s dean put it, “At some point in their lives, most will be working abroad anyway.” Curious. We’d like to know how many other colleges and universities are doing this. Seems like a good idea, if not a bit controversial.
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Jan 22
LAMoCA Savior Eli Broad Picks List of Architects to Compete Over His New Museum
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You’d think after having to bail out the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art to the tune of $30 million, and having to install his friend as the head of that museum to make sure they didn’t mess up their second chance, would have put Eli Broad off museums for a while. But like we reported a short while back, he has plans to open his own personal museum in Beverly Hills and according to The Architect’s Newspaper, he’s plugging along full steam. What’s more, it doesn’t sound like he’s planning to spare many expenses in the building department, as it’s been revealed which architects he’s invited to compete in designing his new home for art:
…the shortlist for an invited competition to design the museum includes Thom Mayne, Jean Nouvel, Shigeru Ban, Rafael Vinoly, and Christian de Portzamparc. The architects will present schemes in mid-February. Advisors to the competition include Frank Gehry, long associated with various Broad undertakings; critic Joseph Giovannini; Joanne Heyler (Director/Chief Curator for the Broad Foundation), and Marcy Goodwin (museum planning consultant).
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