Kiasma was opened in May 1998. The building, located right in the centre of Helsinki (Finland) was designed by the American architect Steven Holl. The design is pure with curves and white walls with plenty of natural light coming from the roof. The main entrance with the reflection in the window of the nearby statue of Marshal Mannerheim. The curved roof of the building is made of solid zinc that has...
I live in a Steven Holl | Palace of Grace | LEGO style | the work of Thom Mayne | vertical farms don't work | broken glass | the women of the Bauhaus | the rolling house aka a reality show waiting to happen | an increased demand for construction software | KPF rips at the seams check out an interactive floor plan of the Shed House in the Isle of Skye To make a house, you grab a fist of air and then...
"> " 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...
Facebook is, like, sooo September 2009. If you're an architect, there's a new social network in town: Architizer . According to Metropolis mag, a couple of starchitecture firms have already joined, including Archi-Tectonics, Steven Holl Architects, and OMA, as well as a bunch of lesser known firms. So far the site seems light on the LA architects, but we did notice Tom Kovac Architecture , INABA ,...
The 220,000 square-meter linked hybrid complex includes eight towers linked by a ring of eight sky bridges housing a variety of public functions. The complex is located adjacent to the former city perimeter of Beijing.
As a rule museum directors tend to step down within a few years after completing a major expansion. Marc Wilson, who saw through the great Steven Holl addition to the Nelson-Atkins, will be leaving his job soon. And as we've known for a while, Lewis Sharp, 63, will be retiring at the end of [...]
Why didn't I get the October calendar up until the 5th? Is that what you're asking me, Alice? Why didn't I get the October calendar up until the 5th ? Well, I'll tell you why I didn't get the October calendar up until the 5th . I'm a bit on the lazy side. More to the point, I've been assembling an astonishing 75 great events for October , and I know I still don't have them all. There's CTBUH's two-day...
A quick note about the Open House New York schedule, now live online (OHNY is Oct. 10-11) . No offense to the cemeteries, churches and landmarks on the list, but there are a number of sites with recent Curbed relevance that will be open for exploring and we wanted to shout them out (reservations are often required, so act fact!). In Manhattan, The Standard , Smyth Tribeca , Riverhouse (Leo!), The...
How many people can say that they've lived a chunk of their lives inside the walls of a starchitect-designed building? In light of September's Back To School spirit, this is the first in a short series in which we peek inside unconventional living spaces on a college campus (specifically at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where this writer is currently based.) We talk to Amanda Levesque...
"It's the first earthwork I know of to have two states: one wet, one dry," says one of the women who almost 30 years ago helped to bring Herbert Bayer's earthworks to a place otherwise known, if at all, only as " the lettuce capital of the world ": Kent, Washington. Her voice is heard in the 25-minute documentary "A Place for People," which premieres Thursday night at...
With a couple of hours to kill in Helsinki, I wandered into the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma , an intriguingly shaped glass-and-zinc building designed by the US architect Steven Holl. The exhibits were a mix of Finnish and international modern art, which were beautifully set off by the gently surprising space. Of course, you can always judge an art gallery by its gift shop, and Kiasma’s...
Sitting on the outskirts of Beijing, Steven Holl’s eco city-within-a-city is now accepting more than 2,500 new residents. Featured previously on Inhabitat, Holl’s Linked Hybrid Development is a completely self-contained housing complex that features of one of the largest geothermal heating and cooling systems in the world, serving the development’s entire 6.18 hectares [...]
Sitting on the outskirts of Beijing, Steven Holl’s city within a city is now accepting more than 2,500 new residents. Featured previously on Inhabitat, Holl’s Linked Hybrid is a completely self-contained housing complex that features of one of the largest geothermal heating and cooling systems in the world, serving the development’s entire 6.18 [...]
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