| 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 | 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. |
| 05/07/2013 | In Philly, from Family Court to Elegant Hotel?
Philadelphia Inquirer (PA)
May 07--From Family Court to elegant hotel? |
| 04/01/2013 | Profile: Herman Hertzberger
"Architectural Review, The (UK)"
Herman Hertzberger is the exception to the rule that nearly all famous architects design their most significant works between the age of 30-something and their late 50s. |
| 04/01/2013 | Why Don't Innovative Architects Build Above a Dozen Stories?
Architectural Review, The
A whistle-stop tour of Melbourne, Hong Kong, Santiago, Buenos Aires, Tokyo, Frankfurt and the Gold Coast. |
| 04/01/2013 | Review: Et in Arcadia Ego
"Architectural Review, The (UK)"
Et in arcadia ego AYLALEPINE White Cube, Green Mase: New Art Landscapes, Yale School of Architecture Gallery, New Haven, CT, USA, until 4 May 2013 |
| 05/03/2013 | Frank Gehry Pulls out of Major Architecture Exhibition
Los Angeles Times
May 03--Frank Gehry has pulled out of a major architecture exhibition set to open June 2 at the Museum of Contemporary Art, a move that could force the show to find a new venue or face the prospect of being canceled altogether. |
| 05/04/2013 | Architects To Present New Plan for Old Chicago Post Office
Chicago Tribune
May 04--Architects for the British developer who owns Chicago's old post office building say they have a new proposal for the structure that will be ready for presentation to the city's Plan Commission in June. |
