Curbed SF (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
In today's dose of John King, the urban design critic does a rundown of downed projects in the city. Toyo Ito's Berkeley Art Museum? Check. Don Fisher's Presidio art museum? Check. Rem Koolhaas' Prada building, check. Renzo Piano's 1,200-foot-tall Transbay...
12 Degrees of Freedom (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
I do love cities. I realize that no two cities are alike, so maybe what I love is the idea of the city. That doesn't mean that I don't like rural and wild areas. Given the fact that The world population has been growing pretty steadily since the end of the Black Death around 1400 (and is currently around 6.799 billion), rural and wild areas would be under much greater pressures than they currently...
SFist (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Rendering courtesy of SF Planning Dept. The Planning Department just released their 25-year plan for the Transbay Terminal-adjacent "Transit Center District." Above is a rendering of what the San Francisco skyline might look like, 20 or 25 years hence, if six new proposed skyscrapers actually get approved and built, including the central 950-foot Transbay Tower, which would be 100 feet taller...
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
CHICAGO, IL.- Italian born, Berlin-based artist Monica Bonvicini (b. 1965) creates videos, sculptures, installations, and drawings that explore the physical and psychological effects of institutional, particularly museum, architecture. The first focus contemporary art exhibition presented in the Art Institute of Chicago 's Modern Wing, Monica Bonvicini: Light Me Black--on view November 20, 2009 through...
Abduzeedo by design - (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
This week we're going to talk about Renzo Piano and his main works that marked the history of architecture. Technology, in its unique and unusual ways, is still characteristic of his work that leaves people perplexed in all corners of the world. <!--break--> Renzo Piano was born in Genova, Italy, on September 14th 1937. In a family full of builders, we are fortunate to have contradicted the...
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...
Flavorwire (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Slated to open in February 2010 is Zaha Hadid's plan for Maxxi, the Italian national museum of 21st century art. The museum is situated in the northern outskirts of Rome, near the grounds of the 1960 Olympics and a stone's throw away from two other architectural attractions, Renzo Piano's music hall and Pier Luigi Nervi's sports palace. The museum, empty of artwork until the spring, will be the main...
kenneth in the (212) (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
For those who don't already know (my bosses had asked me not to mention it), I've spent the last seven years employed as a staff editor at The New York Times. For a guy who set up his own newspaper in his family's basement back in elementary school, you can imagine what a dream this is. Working in the venerable paper's News Service department -- where stories are edited on deadline for distribution...
Curbed (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
"> " style="font-size: 9px; text-align: center;"> Click the image above to view the full photogallery. [Photos via Steven Holl Architects .] If it's November it must be time for another Best Tall Building award from the terrificly named Council of Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat. Last year's overall winner was Shanghai's big bottle-opener, while the Best Tall Building Americas...
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
BOSTON, MA.- The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston has reached a critical benchmark in early fundraising for its new building and palace restoration project. The Gardner Museum has raised, to date, more than $100 million in gifts and pledges, representing support from the museum's entire Boardof Trustees, as well as from museum overseers, other individuals and institutional funders. This early...
Collecting my Thoughts (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
“James Cuno, president and director of the Art Institute of Chicago, walks us through the Museum's Renzo Piano-designed Modern Wing. He explains how the addition, a "luminous box" that opened in May, creates optimal conditions for viewing art.” I like the old Museum. I prefer that museum design not distract from the art. Don’t care much for scrims, flying carpets and curtain...
Fast Company (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Like everyone else, the design field braced for the fallout from the financial meltdown. At the time, some of us argued that good things could come from a period of constraint and reexamination. The consumer culture of design had become overwrought, with limited edition candleholders that sell for $2,700. For all its pain, the downturn gave design a chance to revitalize by taking on the pressing problems...
Architecture Revived (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Renzo Piano transformed the historic Lingotto building into a mixed-used complex of hotels, concert halls, cinema, shops, and businesses. Mattè Trucco designed the automobile factory 1923 with its distinctive racetrack on the rooftop. Modernist Le Corbusier praised the innovative design as the largest and most respected plant of its day. Fiat closed the factory, but Lingotto moved to solidify...
Architecture Revived (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
The 1.45-mile section of elevated freight railroad in west Manhattan opened as a refurbished urban greenway Park for pedestrians in June 2009. James Corner Field Operations, Piet Oudolf and Diller Scofidio + Renfro contributed to the $50 million. Inspired by natural plant growth on the site during its abandonment, over 210 species now fill the cracks and crevices of this modern urban ruin. More Info...
High Line Blog (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
The New York Times reported yesterday that the Whitney Museum has signed its contract with New York City’s Economic Development Corporation to take over a city-owned site next to the southern end of the High Line. The Whitney is planning a new museum designed by Renzo Piano, with 50,000 square feet of exhibition space– nearly [...]
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teatrends | 04/01/2008
Roberto Casiraghi, the director of R.O.M.A. Road to contemporary art, wanted to respond to these requirements within this event. R.O.M.A is the first art exhibition dedicated to contemporary art organised in Rome from the 28th February to the 2nd March 2009 with the participation of more than 80 Italian and foreign galleries.
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