Hello Beautiful! (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
Now in Vegas you won't just see No, there's a new culture on the Strip. Daniel Libeskind opens today in Vegas, starring in "Crystals" - that's the name of his Las Vegas A-list retail and entertainment complex: There it is in the foreground left in a photo I took about a week ago. You can't mistake the Libeskind brand for another. Libeskind's line of shops for Louis Vuitton, Roberto Cavalli,...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
The kilometre-high skyscraper, the underwater hotel, the cloud on stilts ... Steve Rose mourns the eye-popping erections that should never have been commissioned Pundits have been lining up to say "I told you so" over the bursting of Dubai's construction bubble, so now it's my turn. I did tell you so , a year ago. But what now? In architectural terms, Dubai has surely been the story of the...
Fast Company (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
MGM Mirage's CityCenter is claiming itself to be the face of the "new Vegas" when it opens this week. The $8.5 billion, 18 million-square-foot development right on the Strip bucks the mega-resort trend by corralling multiple hotel and residential concepts in one master-planned site. But it's also a revolutionary convergence of starchitects--Daniel Libeskind, Rafael Viñoly, and Norman...
Flavorwire (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
Contemporary art devoid of irony, imagine that. In what artist John Zinsser describes as a 25-year love affair with the New York art scene, his new show at James Graham & Sons delineates old-school gallery alliances with geographical borders. Think of it as a primer for whatever happens at Miami Basel this week: without Leo Castelli, would Warhol be selling for a bajillion dollars today? Can the...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
Coming up the week of November 30 and the following weeks: design weeks in Hong Kong, Miami, and Tokyo, the world's largest building opens some parts to the public, and architects including Norman Foster and Frank Gehry take part in a London auction.
Traves Tangents (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
One Melbourne landmark is Flinders St station . There's a urban myth that the design was meant for India, and was sent to Australia by accident. In contrast, here's the Norman Foster designed Southern Cross .
varnelis.net - network culture (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Unfortunately I won’t have a chance to see this show, but I had the chance to contribute a brief piece on Archizoom’s “Structure for Leisure in Prato–Permanent Luna Park in a Shopping Centre” to the catalogue for First Works: Emerging Architectural Experimentation of the 1960s and 1970s , now on display the AA. The show explores the first projects that architects of that...
felixsalmon.com (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
In September, Tyler Cowen picked Berlin as his “preferred exile”: There would be plenty of art and music, lots of smart people to talk to, access to other good locales, and the near-certainty of public order, yet with bearable winters and good health care. Today, on the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, he's not so enthusiastic : I like spending time in Berlin. But I am never...
Archinect (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
News Did you know that Yelp was co-founded by an architect that once worked for Norman Foster? Did you know that this same ex-architect also helped define the RSS standards? Well, now you know! Learn more about how David Galbraith in the newest Working out of the Box feature. Gabby Uvidia is the winner of Archinect's "Why are you studying Architecture?" contest . Here answer; Architecture...
Flavorwire (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
The Dia Arts Foundation — purveyor of large-scale installation and performance art since the 1970s, starting with seminal arts space The Kitchen — announced this morning its impending plans to return to Manhattan with a major exhibition space at 545 West 22nd Street, on the footprint of a building that Dia has owned since 1992. Also noteworthy: for the first time in its 35-year history,...
Archinect (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Did you know that Yelp was co-founded by an architect that once worked for Norman Foster? Did you know that this same ex-architect also help define the RSS standards? Well, now you know! Learn more about how David Galbraith moved from architecture to "maker of 'Internet Stuff'" in the latest installment in our Working out of the Box series . And for some inspiration for the young struggling...
Archinect (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Working out of the Box is a series of features presenting architects who have applied their architecture backgrounds to alternative career paths. Are you an architect working out of the box? Do you know of someone that has changed careers and has an interesting story to share? If you would like to suggest an (ex-)architect, please send us a message . Archinect: Where did you study architecture? David...
Latest News (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Norman Foster is drawing up plans for a cluster of tall buildings on the site of the New Covent Garden Market in Nine Elms.
explo guide (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
The viaduct of records History and description Millau Viaduct represents the missing link of A75 motorway, to make the crossing of the Tarn valley near Millau deep here 270 metres. Project start dates back to 1987. In 1996, after a tender, the solution designed by Michel Virlogeux, Chief Engineer of bridges and pavements, and drawn by Sir Norman Foster, architect, is retained. Will be a work of art...
The Economist (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
While other cities are tightening their belts, Dallas is polishing its buckle ON ONE side of Flora Street is the Bill and Margot Winspear Opera House, an airy space designed by Norman Foster. Across the street is the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre, a silver cube designed by Joshua Prince-Ramos and Rem Koolhaas. “Aesthetically, it’s stoic, even off-putting,” said the theatre manager,...
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