Architecture
The Royal Bank of Canada will be exhibiting the first full “living roof” garden to ever show at London’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show from May 21-25.The RBC Blue Water Roof Garden, designed by Professor Nigel Dunnett and the Landscape Agency, will present an urban...
The Canadian collector and national arts philanthropist Michael Audain has revealed architectural plans for a museum that would exhibit his impressive holdings of British Columbia artists, and focus on temporary exhibitions of the “contemporary.” The L-shaped...
Last year marked the first year New York City’s commercial buildings were mandated to publicly disclose their energy usage levels, and with that, some of the city’s most esteemed works of architecture were subjected to a new wave of scrutiny. While the...
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s 1958 Seagram Building is a landmark that hardly needs introduction. The handsome Manhattan office tower — famously set back from the street to form a dramatic Park Avenue piazza — has consistently garnered praise for its...
Although perhaps not universally known, the late Brazilian architect Lina Bo Bardi was a well-loved and influential force in tropical modernity and a champion of Brazilian artists. Arguably the best-loved of her works is the 1951 Casa de Vidro, or Glass House...
The exhibition “Public Works – Architecture by Civil Servants” created by Rem Koolhaas’s Office for Metropolitan Architecture for last year’s Biennale of Architecture in Venice has now been invited by Berlin gallerist Johann Koenig to his still-to-be-...
BANGKOK — Leafing through “The Modern Thai House”, a new coffeetable book profiling some of the most “sophisticated and sensitively designed” houses in the country, you’d be forgiven for asking what exactly is Thai about them. The pointy roofs, flame-shaped...
SEOUL — The idea of your old teenage flame, who is now a successful architect, building you a house as promised 15 years ago completely captivated South Korean moviegoers last year, and “Architecture 101” became one of the highest grossing local melodramas of...
It’s safe to say that few in the architecture community were surprised when Toyo Ito was named the 2013 Pritzker Architecture Prize laureate this past Sunday. For many, Ito’s newest accolade is long overdue: The 71-year-old has produced a robust portfolio,...
In a recent farewell speech as outgoing Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton made a rather unexpected reference to Frank Gehry, using the architect’s signature slapdash compositions as an analogy for a new approach to foreign relations: “Where once a few...
