Daniel Roche

1 week ago | archpaper.com | Daniel Roche

Almost 2,000 objects from three disparate geographic areas are back on view at The Met in a light-filled wing overlooking Central Park redesigned by WHY Architecture and Beyer Blinder Belle. Kevin Roche and John Dinkeloo were the original architects of the Michael C. Rockefeller Wing, which opened in 1982. Baaba Maal, a Senegalese musician, was invited to give opening words to inaugurate the wing’s reopening this week, as well as Māori dancers, and Nahuatl poets.

1 week ago | archpaper.com | Daniel Roche

City of Los Angeles, LA4LA, and cityLAB-UCLA launched the competition Small Lots, Big Impact in March to address the need for housing in Southern California, a crisis recently heightened by the ravenous wildfires. The full list of winners in the competition was shared today and the proposals include various designs for lowrise and midrise dwellings realized in a range of building materials. Small Lots, Big Impact is steered by Dana Cuff, cityLAB director and professor of architecture at UCLA.

1 week ago | archpaper.com | Daniel Roche

There’s a growing list of professional celebrity athletes that turn to real estate in retirement—Floyd Mayweather (VADA Properties), Alex Rodriguez (Arod Corp), and Magic Johnson (Magic Johnson Enterprises), to name but a few. Denver Nuggets point guard Russell Westbrook founded his real estate group, Russell Westbrook Enterprises, in 2020. Russell Westbrook Enterprises is behind a forthcoming sports-anchored entertainment district in Oklahoma City, where Westbrook played for a decade.

1 week ago | aninteriormag.com | Daniel Roche

It’s a tale as old as time: A young family moves into a 19th-century Brooklyn rowhouse and the place is full of charm and idiosyncrasies. Its joists are mangled, floors are slanted, brick walls are crumbled, but it’s still vibrant. Design-savvy homeowners Kwame Taylor-Hayford and Tamara Tribula had tried their hands at renovating the place before, but it soon became apparent more surgical work was necessary.

1 week ago | archpaper.com | Daniel Roche

AIA25 is coming to Boston June 4–7. Former U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg will take the stage as the keynote speaker. The conference comes on the heels of a major development boom in the City on a Hill, which has no sign of slowing down. There’s also important preservation work underway in Boston to maintain what’s already there. Boston City Hall is now a designated landmark, as is Paul Rudolph’s Blue Cross – Blue Shield building.