Daniel Roche

1 week ago | archpaper.com | Daniel Roche

Canada Prime Minister Mark Carney wants to hit the ground running: “Build baby build” were among his first words after winning this week’s election. Toronto, Canada’s finance capital, is already booming—construction cranes are ubiquitous in the city of 3 million people. The census bureau anticipates another 1 million new Torontonians by 2050, explaining the new residential complexes that dot Lake Ontario’s shoreline, and further afield in the exurbs.

1 week ago | archpaper.com | Daniel Roche

Chicagoans already enjoy one of the world’s best urban shorelines—Navy Pier, the Lakefront Trail, and other assets make for impeccable destinations, at least during the warm months. Now, Ross Barney Architects is improving upon existing Chicago green space. DuSable Park is a 3.4–acre swath of land getting renovated in conjunction with SOM’s 400 Lake Shore Drive, one of David Child’s last projects before his recent passing.

2 weeks ago | archpaper.com | Daniel Roche

Tolia Astakhishvili works with ephemera she encounters at flea markets, on the sidewalk, everywhere really. She’s based in Berlin and Tbilisi, Georgia, where she was born, and collaborates with her partner Dylan Peirce, and parents Maka Sanadze and Zurab Astakhishvili. Pieces by Astakhishvili, her parents, and Peirce occupy two rooms at MoMA PS1’s new group show, The Gatherers, curated by Ruba Katrib and Sheldon Gooch, with support from Serena Moscardelli.

2 weeks ago | archpaper.com | Daniel Roche

Agrest and Gandelsonas: Fabric Object II Diana Agrest & Mario Gandelsonas Curated by Steven Hillyer The Cooper Union New York Through May 2“Life didn’t end in 1989, we kept doing stuff,” Diana Agrest told me one morning a few days after Fabric Object II debuted in New York City, a retrospective about her and Mario Gandelsonas curated by Steven Hillyer. That remarkable stuff is now on view at The Cooper Union, where Agrest has taught for the past 50 years.

2 weeks ago | archpaper.com | Daniel Roche

The tourism industry is among the world’s worst polluters, accounting for 8 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. To help buck that trend, a new hub for environmental education and sustainable tourism designed by ArchitectureWorks and WATERSHED has opened in Gulf Shores, Alabama. The Alabama-based firms designed the new Gulf Coast Ecocenter with the City of Gulf Shores and the Gulf Coast Center for Ecotourism and Sustainability.