| 05/22/2013 | Amazon's Plan for Giant Spheres on New Campus Gets Mixed Reaction From Public
Seattle Times (WA)
May 22--CORRECTION: This story, published May 21, 2013, was updated May 22 to clarify comments by architect Mathew Albores. |
| 05/21/2013 | Amazon Proposing Glass-and-steel Biodomes on New Campus
Seattle Times (WA)
May 21--Amazon.com will show the public designs Tuesday for three glass-and-steel spheres it wants to build into its high-rise complex in Denny Triangle. |
| 05/19/2013 | Public gardens: A New Model Blossoms
The Washington Post
How do you open a $15 million public garden, New York-style? |
| 05/17/2013 | Book Review: West Coast Modern: Architecture, Interiors & Design
Press Democrat, The (Santa Rosa, CA)
May 17--Say "modern" and "design" in the same sentence and your mind is likely to conjure up images of steel and glass boxes filled with minimalist, Danish-modern furnishings and an iconic leather and molded-plywood Eames lounge chair. |
| 05/19/2013 | Shipping Container Hotel Project Floats Its Plan in Detroit
Detroit Free Press (MI)
May 19--The prototype for the "most important hotel in America" is sitting on a patch of grass at Eastern Market, says a national hotel guru. |
| 05/16/2013 | L.A. Artists, Architects' Effect on Each Other in New Exhibition
Los Angeles Times
May 16--"Everything Loose Will Land" has landed. |
| 05/16/2013 | Students Have Designs on Kentucky Bluegrass Museum
Messenger-Inquirer (Owensboro, KY)
May 16--Depending on how quickly another $3 million is raised to convert the former State Office Building to an International Bluegrass Music Center and Museum, an architect will eventually be hired to design the transformation. |
| 05/16/2013 | Plans Languish for Overhaul of NYC's Penn Station
Associated Press/AP Online
NEW YORK - The busiest passenger train station in the United States is a 1960s-era, utilitarian labyrinth in the basement of a basketball arena. |
| 05/17/2013 | Despite Gehry's Withdrawal, L.A. MOCA's 'New Sculpturalism' Show to Open June 16
Los Angeles Times
May 17--The Museum of Contemporary Art released a statement Friday saying it has moved back the opening date of its show about contemporary Los Angeles architecture, part of the Getty's "Pacific Standard Time Presents" initiative, by two weeks, to June 16. |
| 05/15/2013 | Architecture Firm Rossetti Is the Latest to Move to Downtown Detroit
Detroit Free Press (MI)
May 15--An award-winning architectural firm, Rossetti, is moving its headquarters from the suburbs into the historic Federal Reserve building in downtown Detroit. |
| 05/17/2013 | Condo, Apartment Developers Using Design Psychology
Chicago Tribune
May 17--The eclectic collection of framed art hanging in a condo hallway was carefully chosen and included a mix of sketches, pictures of insects and a poster that simply said "cinema." |
| 05/16/2013 | Masterplan Revealed for Pittsburgh Riverfront Park
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (PA)
Aspinwall Riverfront Park will include picnic and playground areas, a pavilion, boat ramp and entrance way from Freeport Road, according to the park's newly released master plan. |
| 05/15/2013 | Wright's Unity Temple Gets $10 Million Grant for Facelift
Chicago Tribune
May 15--Frank Lloyd Wright's Unity Temple, a pilgrimage site for architectural buffs, will get a face lift, thanks to a $10 million grant from a Chicago-based foundation. |
| 05/16/2013 | Show of Irish Architectural Skill Gives New Life to Shopping Mall in Dublin's Docklands
Irish Times
CHQ, the struggling shopping mall in Dublin's Docklands, is getting a new lease of life as the venue for an exhibition celebrating Ireland's extraordinarily successful participation in the 13th International Architecture Biennale in Venice last autumn. |
| 05/15/2013 | Diller Scofidio + Renfro's Hirshhorn "Bubble" Is Deflated a Bit in Cost Report
The Washington Post
The Hirshhorn Museum's proposed Seasonal Inflatable Structure, also known as "the Bubble," a project announced in 2009 and intended as an architecturally and culturally transformative space on the Mall, would operate at a loss in each of three scenarios examined in an assessment done by the Smithsonian. |
| 05/11/2013 | Important Atlanta Architecture Faces Wrecking Ball
Atlanta Journal-Constitution (GA)
May 11--It was a hard, bleak winter for historic preservationists in Atlanta, a city already infamous for not saving the sign posts of its past. |
| 05/13/2013 | As U.S. Workers Change, Buildings Must Also Adapt
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
May 13--Americans seem to work more than ever these days, but they're not necessarily tethered to the office. |
| 05/11/2013 | Christopher Hawthorne: 10 Buildings That Changed America Is a Rewarding Tour
Los Angeles Times
May 11--The new PBS program "10 Buildings That Changed America" is nothing if not efficient. |
| 05/11/2013 | Rem Koolhaas in South Beach
Miami Herald (FL)
May 11--The list of living architects who can cause a scrum at the door of a theater where they're delivering a lecture is, depending on your view of modern urban design, depressingly sparse or fittingly short. |
| 05/13/2013 | Frederick Fisher Addition to Colby College Museum Set to Open
"Sun Journal (Lewiston, ME)"
WATERVILLE -- The Colby College Museum of Art will celebrate its reopening and inaugurate the Alfond-Lunder Family Pavilion on Saturday, July 13. |
| 04/24/2013 | Perkins+Will Defines Inclusive Design at New Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital
PRNewswire
Hospital of the Future Incorporates Community, Sustainability and Resiliency BOSTON, April 24, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Global architectural and design firm Perkins+Will adds to the reputation of its award-winning healthcare design practice with the opening of the new 262,000-square-foot Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital. |
| 05/07/2013 | Committee Picks Libeskind Design for Ohio Holocaust Memorial Despite Lawsuit Concerns
Columbus Dispatch (OH)
May 07--A design by an internationally known architect and artist featuring a yellow Star of David was chosen yesterday for a $2 million Statehouse Holocaust memorial -- despite concerns that a religious symbol would open the state to legal challenges. |
| 05/10/2013 | New York's Tallest Tower Reaches Symbolic Height
Associated Press
NEW YORK -- The World Trade Center's rebirth in New York City has long revolved around creating symbolism on the site of tragedy: a skyscraper 1,776 feet tall, an homage and a bold statement about looking forward. |
| 05/10/2013 | Spire Permanently Installed on WTC Tower
Associated Press/AP Online
NEW YORK - The silver spire topping One World Trade Center on Friday was fully installed on the building's roof, bringing the structure to its full, symbolic height of 1,776 feet. |
| 04/01/2013 | Review: The Hand of Corb
"Architectural Review, The (UK)"
It is the painter who did architecture we meet at the exhibition on Le Corbusier at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm. |
