Apartment Therapy - San Francisco (Free subscription) | 06/12/2008
UC Berkeley is planning a new building to house their art museum and film archive. The Chron has all the information on the new project, which is designed by renowned architect Toyo Ito.
Material Interest (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
UC Berkeley's Art Museum won't open until 2013, but renderings were released today, and the building looks to be stunning. It marks the American debut of Japanese architect Toyo Ito (known for the Tower of Winds in Yokohama, among other...
Curbed SF (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
New deets are out on Japanese architect Toyo Ito's new building for the Berkeley Art Museum, the plans for which first dropped a few months back. Ito bases many of his designs on the grid, and the new BAM-to-be...
DATA news (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
The University of California, Berkeley, Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive have unveiled the design for the first American project by the Japanese architect Toyo Ito.
New York Times (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
The University of California, Berkeley, Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive have unveiled the design for the first American project by the Japanese architect Toyo Ito.
SocketSite™ (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
"He doesn't have the name recognition of a Frank Gehry or a Daniel Libeskind, but Toyo Ito is one of Japan's most acclaimed and adventurous architects. Looking at the design for a downtown Berkeley museum that would be his...
Travelblog (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
I still had a free travelday on my seichun hiachu kippu so today i went for some free train travel on this ticket kippu. I visited the two most contrasting places in Japan Nikko the world heritage site of the old meji era and Yokohama the most bustling city in japan so i decided to update them also seperately. Maybe due the contrast it was an amazing day with a lot of fun. So now it's yoko
The blog art (Free subscription) | 03/26/2008
Frank Gehry is to design this summer's Serpentine Pavilion. Is his feted 'Bilbao effect' about to sweep through Britain?
Looking Around (Free subscription) | 03/25/2008
Rendering of Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive, Toyo Ito, 2008 / Image: UC BERKELEY I sat down last week with Julia White, senior curator for Asian art at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. We talked about a few things, including Berkeley's upcoming show called Mahjong, a selection of contemporary Chinese art from the collection of Uli Sigg, the former Swiss ambassador to Beijing....
Modern Art Notes (Free subscription) | 03/20/2008
I don't know about you, but if I see one more Renzo Piano museum I'm going to silently protest by taking the stairs. So it's with happiness and relief that Curbed SF brings us a preliminary sketch for the Berkeley Art Museum's new Toyo Ito building. The museum is targeting a 2013 opening for what would be Ito's first U.S. building. Sure, Ito has a ways to go to really fully understand Berkeley: In...
Archinect (Free subscription) | 03/20/2008
The University of California Regents Committee on Grounds and Buildings got its first peek at Toyo Ito & Associates, Architects' preliminary conceptual design for a new Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA) near the main western entrance to the UC Berkeley campus. UC Berkeley News |...
Curbed SF (Free subscription) | 03/19/2008
Another architectural gem just arrived in the CurbedWire inbox. Here, fair archilovers, are the preliminary plans for architect Toyo Ito's much-anticipated Berkeley Art Museum. The building, tentatively set to open in 2013, will house the museum's collection along with the...
Travelblog (Free subscription) | 03/04/2008
As soon as i arrived with the superfast and smooth shinkasen train at Sendai city I went immediately to the sendai mediatheque of architect toyo ito. But this particulair day it was closed due the yearly cleaning day. I walked around a little bit and around noon i checked in at my hostel a traditional ryokan. So shoes out washing in a wooden tub sleeping on the tatami and served tea in my roo
Archinect (Free subscription) | 02/11/2008
This year Mayne will be the 9th architect to design a poster for Cersaie , the international ceramic tile and bathroom furnishings fair, taking place September 30-October 4 in Bologna, Italy. Previous designers include Toyo Ito, Antonio Citterio, Alessandro Mendini, and Ettore Sottsass.
Hankblog (Free subscription) | 01/30/2008
On February 9 at 5 PM, Kazuyo Sejima of SANAA will now be lecturing instead of Ryue Nishizawa. However, the topic of the lecture will remain the same (see below for lecture description and ticketing information). Kazyuo Sejima studied architecture at Japan's Women's University and worked for Toyo Ito after completing her studies. She established her own practice in 1987 and [...]
