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1 week ago | 
archinect.com | Niall Patrick Walsh |Nam Henderson |Orhan Ayyuce
A new 12-part documentary series is set to premiere on July 1st, spotlighting a formative era in Los Angeles architecture. Produced by nonprofit FORT: LA and hosted by architectural journalist Frances Anderton, Rebel Architects: From Venice to the World Stage revisits the creative context of 1980s...
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2 months ago | 
archinect.com | Josh Niland |Antonio Pacheco |Nicholas Korody |Orhan Ayyuce
Ennead is behind a newly completed dinosaur fossil museum project for Rowan University, a private school with an enrollment of 23,000 located in Gloucester County, New Jersey. Their design for the Edelman Fossil Park & Museum with KSS Architects situates the 44,000-square-foot building...
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Jan 28, 2025 | 
archinect.com | Josh Niland |Nam Henderson |Orhan Ayyuce
John Chase, the trailblazing Black architect and 1952 MArch graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, has received recognition from his alma mater with the official renaming of the SoA’s Architecture & Planning Library building. The Cass Gilbert design, which was dedicated nearly...
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
archinect.com | Josh Niland |Orhan Ayyuce |Nam Henderson
The forthcoming Calder Gardens museum and cultural space designed by Herzog & de Meuron with landscape designer Piet Oudolf in Philadelphia has announced it will open to the public in September 2025. Sited along a 1.8-acred site on Benjamin Franklin Parkway, the sculpture garden...
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
archinect.com | Josh Niland |Orhan Ayyuce
Dutch architect Sim Van der Ryn, a pioneer of green architecture and a longtime professor at the UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design, has died at age 89 according to the San Francisco Chronicle. He will be remembered for his experimental teaching methods and approach to designing...
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Aug 29, 2024 | 
archinect.com | Orhan Ayyuce
The false columns in the foyer were part of the intended spatial sequence, conceived as a procession from shadow to light, inspired by the entry to an ancient church. Visitors would enter this crypt-like lower level, proceed up a grand staircase, and arrive in the airy galleries above.
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Aug 29, 2024 | 
archinect.com | Orhan Ayyuce
The false columns in the foyer were part of the intended spatial sequence, conceived as a procession from shadow to light, inspired by the entry to an ancient church. Visitors would enter this crypt-like lower level, proceed up a grand staircase, and arrive in the airy galleries above.
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Jul 7, 2024 | 
archinect.com | Josh Niland |Sean Joyner |Alexander Walter |Orhan Ayyuce
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill has shared photos of its new bus shelter designs for the City of Los Angeles. The LAST STAP (short for Sidewalk and Transit Amenities Program) shelters are the first prototype designs for the initiative that will eventually install 3,000 shelters and 450 shade...
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Jun 20, 2024 | 
archinect.com | Josh Niland |Amelia Taylor-Hochberg |Orhan Ayyuce |Julia Ingalls
Frida Escobedo and the French studio duo Moreau Kusunoki have announced their plans for the prolonged renovation of the Centre Pompidou in Paris a year after the museum announced its closure for five years in order to realize the project, whose costs are estimated at around €262 million...
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Jun 20, 2024 | 
archinect.com | Josh Niland |Orhan Ayyuce
Techxplore.com has some interesting insights concerning flaws in the AI-led architectural image generation of historic Islamic architecture after a report about its inaccuracies surfaced in the journal Buildings this March. "[The] inability to obtain precise visual representations of...
