Latest News (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
Rafael Viñoly’s first completed project in the UK, the Curve theatre in Leicester, has been slammed by the Audit Commission for failing to provide good value for money.
The ArchitectsNewspaper Blog (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Last week, the Department of Design and Construction (DDC) broke ground on a police station in Staten Island designed by Rafael Vinoly. This week, the agency announced the completion of another such project: a firehouse in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. Both projects were commissioned under the DDC’s Design and Construction Excellence program, which has raised the bar [...]
Market Wire (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
... San Francisco Institute for Regeneration Medicine located on the Parnassus Campus. Architect Rafael Viñoly designed the institute, Smith Group is the design-build team architect and DPR Construction, Inc. is the general contractor on the project.
The ArchitectsNewspaper Blog (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
City-funded architecture work is becoming scarce, if the DDC’s latest list of Design and Construction Excellence firms is any indicator, so it’s heartening when public projects promised during the boom times move into the construction phase. Today, Mayor Bloomberg, Police Commissioner Kelly, and DDC Commissioner Burney broke ground on the Rafael Vinoly-designed 121st Precinct...
Paramus Post (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
... Frank Gehry and Partners' new Lewis Library, Venturi Scott Brown and Associates' Bendheim Hall, Rafael Vinoly Architects' Carl Icahn Laboratory, Pei Cobb Freed & Partners' Butler College; Demetri Porphyrios Associates' Whitman College; and Gwathmey Siegel & Associates McDonnell Hall. The architects noted that the campus comprises a living museum of architecture, with representation...
Architecture Revived (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
Rafael Viñoly designed the facilities for the CNSI Nanosystems Institute at the University of California Lose Angeles in southern California. Brick core sections of the building provide a coherent hierarchy of private laboratories and more open collaborative spaces. From the outset it looks like a typical California professional building. Three of the seven floors are construction on...
Latest News (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
A £5.5 billion plan for the redevelopment of Battersea Power Station in south London, masterplanned by Rafael Vinoly, has been submitted for planning.
Latest News (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
... will feature pieces by David Chipperfield, Richard Rogers, Norman Foster, Zaha Hadid, Toyo Ito and Rafael Viñoly, as well as artists including Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Anthony Gormley, Tracey Emin and Douglas Gordon.All the money raised by the auction at the Louise T Blouin Foundation in west London will go to Article 25, a four-year-old charity named after the 25th article of the...
arkitectoniq (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
... The center is named after philanthropist Sidney Kimmel. The architect of the Center was Rafael Viñoly, and the acoustician was Artec Consultants. The Kimmel Center opened in an unfinished state on December 16, 2001. Numerous cost overruns and construction delays led to the filing of a lawsuit in 2005 by officials of the Kimmel Center against Viñoly. The lawsuit was settled...
EADT24 - News (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
... is now, however, confident that the copper-covered building - designed by world-renowned architect Rafael Vinoly - can be completed within its revised budget of £25.5million.Once completed, it is due to become home for arts organisation firstsite, which will organise exhibitions, film screenings and events in the gallery.Yesterday, Paul Smith, the council's cabinet member with responsibility...
Latest News (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
... of the 4ha Radcliffe Infirmary site, a project that also involves schemes by architects including Rafael Viñoly and Bennetts Associates, but has been attacked by dons as overambitious and ill considered.
Architecture Revived (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
Rafael Viñoly designed the Kimmel Art Center for the Philadelphia Orchestra. A large glass barrel vault that is more familiar with train stations rises over the white box of a 2,500-seat symphony hall. It opened in 2008. Each performance hall is compartmentalized inside the glass structure, with rooftop gardens above the Commonwealth Plaza. They offer downtown views of the city. The main...
The Guardian - The blog Theatre (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
... Ridley), even if reviews have been mixed. The distinctive new building, designed by architect Rafael Viñoly, has been critically acclaimed, with judges of the RIBA awards considering it "genuinely iconic ... a new level of ambition in theatre design". Some new theatres, of course, emerge fully formed and ready to roll. When the Royal Court was revamped in 2000, it felt both...
ArchitectureChicago PLUS (Free subscription) | 09/27/2009
September 26, 2009. The music of Miguel and Sylvia de la Cerna at Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie House suo profumo è nell'aria down Woodlawn over Rafael Vinoly's Graduate School of Business and Bertram Goodhue's Rockefeller Chapel. (Remind me to clean my camera lens.)
