Dante Ciampaglia

1 month ago | villagestar-revue.com | Dante Ciampaglia

“Baseball isn’t statistics,” legendary New York sports columnist Jimmy Cannon once wrote. “Baseball is DiMaggio rounding second.” I wonder if Tim Bassett, second baseman for Adler’s Paints, had that in mind when he quipped, decades later, “Is there anything more beautiful than the sun setting on a fat man stealing second base?”It’s entirely possible. Bassett, like his Adler’s teammates and their opponents, the Riverdogs, are creations of Carson Lund.

2 months ago | architecturalrecord.com | Dante Ciampaglia

Descending into subterranean civic infrastructure for cultural events feels decidedly Old World. But MASS Design Group has brought the experience to upstate New York by transforming a decommissioned 3 million-gallon water tank into a unique performing arts space. The Poughkeepsie Cistern, completed in 1923 and buried under a hill in the city’s Northside neighborhood, is one of approximately six such containers scattered across the United States.

2 months ago | architecturalrecord.com | Dante Ciampaglia

The Aga Khan IV posing as a student at Harvard University, 1958. Photo courtesy AKDN Prince Karim Al-Hussaini, the Aga Khan IV and 49th Imam of Nizari Ismaili Muslims, died February 4 in Lisbon. He was 88. The Aga Khan’s eldest son, Prince Rahim Al-Hussaini, has been designated the Aga Khan V. Prince Karim, who was born in Geneva in 1936, came into the hereditary role of spiritual leader of the global Ismaili Muslim community in 1957 after the death of his grandfather.

2 months ago | architecturalrecord.com | Dante Ciampaglia

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) announced SANAA as the recipient of the 2025 RIBA Gold Medal. Pritzker Prize-winning architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa’s firm was cited by the institute for “producing works that bring simplicity, light, and elegance to the fore” and reshaping “the global design landscape.” “We are delighted and very honored to receive the Royal Gold Medal,” the architects said.

2 months ago | architecturalrecord.com | Dante Ciampaglia |Aric Chen

The Obel Award announced its jury has set Ready Made as its 2025 focus to explore how to prioritize “what already exists” in the built environment and “how we can rethink, reinterpret, and repurpose” those resources.” In choosing Ready Made, the jury, chaired by Snøhetta founder Kjetil Thorsen, aims to bring the issue of resource use and scarcity to the center of the conversation about architecture’s impact on a world increasingly shaped by climate change.