Recent news coverage for the 7-acre parcel, Manhattan’s biggest undeveloped, publicly owned development site south of 96th Street, has provided the chance to contemplate many important urban issues. Firstly, are we taking full advantage of this great opportunity to develop a vast land in the heart of Manhattan, or just limiting our imagination under current [...]
YASUAKI ONISHI reverse of volume RG 13 APRIL – 24 JUNE 2012 OPENING CELEBRATION Friday, 13 April 5:00 – 7:00 pm Talk by Yasuaki Onishi at 6:00 pm GALLERY TALK AND REFRESHMENTS Saturday, 14 April 11:00 am – 1:00 pm Talk by Yasuaki Onishi at 12:00 pm NEW ART/NEW MUSIC: CASTING THE INVISIBLE Saturday, 14 [...]
During the New York International Auto Show, MINI USA has company news and North American vehicle debuts worth checking out this week. Below is a short summary of the news MINI is announcing and the vehicles that will be featured: MINI John Cooper Works Countryman will make its North American debut at the New York [...]
The house is sited on a bluff overlooking the bay within a grove of cedar and locust trees. Discrete volumes of varying public and private functions are organized around an axial promenade, extending to the outdoors. Single story volumes, separated by glass interstitial spaces, were utilized to lessen the overall impact of the structures while [...]
Shapiro’s Rice Gallery installation, on view through March 18, is a gravity-defying array of color, form, shape and line. Wooden elements, vibrantly painted with supersaturated pigment and casein, seemingly levitate in the air as they are held in tension by string stretching from the center of the gallery’s floor to points on the ceiling. The [...]
CHALLENGE: In the heart of the meat packing district in New York, turning a meat storage space into a luxury flower shop SOLUTION: The solution was based on the juxtaposition of the program and urban changes in the area. One’s memory is carved with images of cows skinned hanging on large steel overhangs required to [...]
Shared by a New York-based architect Delaine Isaac, he has recently completed the first episode for “Great Spaces“: UNStudio Amsterdam Pavilion. The Amsterdam Pavilion was commissioned by the Battery Conservancy, is a gift from the Netherlands to New York in honour of 400 years of friendship. It was unveiled to public in September 2009, if [...]
Guillaume Gentet was given the task of converting a 1 bedroom, 2 bathroom luxury loft apartment into a 3 bedroom, 3 bathroom unit. The total area was also increased by 500SF from 2,673 to 3,073 through the extension of the upper mezzanine. + Project Highlights One bedroom, two bathroom loft apartment converted into a three [...]
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[global] Crisis & Design ver.1.0: Living in the Crisis Era, between Anxiety and Desire Architects and Designers in New York City Team up to Develop Projects Addressing Currents Global Issues Thursday, November 17– Saturday, December 3, 2011 Opening reception and book launch: Thursday, November 17, 6 – 8pm The Institute of Multidisciplinarity for Art, Architecture [...]
Veronica Morales shared with us her photography of the residential tower in Manhattan by world-renowned architect Frank Gehry. The tower features 265 metre-high and is now the eighth tallest building in New York (the tallest residential building in the Western Hemisphere). + Photography: Veronica Morales | http://www.veronicamoralesangulo.com/ + All images courtesy Veronica Morales
An exhibition of Brazil’s most iconic designers and architects Opening reception for the designers: Tuesday, September 20, 2011 from 6-9pm ESPASSO is pleased to announce ETEL for ESPASSO – an exhibition of Brazil’s most iconic designers and architects, brought together for the first time in the US, beginning September 20, 2011. This group show comprises [...]
New York artist Michael Beitz‘ Picnic Table was commissioned by the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, in Omaha, Nebraska, as a permanent installation on its front loading dock, in conjunction with the Bemis Gardens exhibition and design laboratory. While in residence at the Bemis Center in 2010, Beitz produced a series of conceptual furniture drawings [...]
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PALAZZO DEL LAVORO (Palace of Labour) \ Alberto Apostoli
Italian Architect Alberto Apostoli signs the renovation of a building in which colors and details of the facade redefine the volume through a geometrical but refined language. The project starts from a building renovation from the 60’s that was partially wrecked by the terrible earthquake that seriously damaged the old town of L’Aquila (the heart [...]
Private Colege in Oporto \ OVAL – Avelino Oliveira
Photographer João Morgado shared with us his recently photography of the Private Colege in Oporto designed by OVAL – Avelino Oliveira. A group of buildings for the new facilities of the College Cebes (secondary school), which is situated in Foz do Douro, in the municipality of Porto. The project proposes a building that is based [...]
Sejong Art Center Winning Proposal / designcamp moonpark dmp
Sejong Art Center (hereafter SAC) is designed for various performing arts such as musical, ballet, dancing and etc. There are two theaters, a main theater with more than 800 seats and a medium sized theater with 300 seats, and a film theater with 250 seats and art gallery in SAC. It is located in the [...]
