BIG's 2WTC for FOX

Wired magazine has unveiled Bjarke Ingels' design for Two World Trade Center, which he took over from Norman Foster after Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox and News Corp decided to move into the tower developed by Larry Silverstein.[All images are screenshots from the video found at the bottom of this...

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A Short Guide to the LFA

Head on over to World-Architects to see some highlights from the London Festival of Architecture taking place this June.[Yellow Pavilion by Hall McKnight Architects in King’s Cross, as part of ID2015’s New Horizon_architecture from Ireland, for the London Festival of Architecture 2015. Photo: ©Ed Reeve]...

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Today's archidose #842

Here are some photos of The 606 by Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, which opened today in Chicago, Illinois. Photos by John Zacherle.To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just::: Join and add photos to the archidose pool To contribute your Instagram images for consideration, just:::...

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The Collectivity Project

Last Thursday, artist Olafur Eliasson, with some architects from the area (OMA, Field Operations, Steven Holl, DS+R, BIG, etc.), unveiled The Collectivity Project on the High Line at 30th Street. It looked like this:[Photo by Timothy Schenck, courtesy of Friends of the High Line] Two days later, when...

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Book Review: Portraits of the New Architecture 2

Portraits of the New Architecture 2 by Richard SchulmanAssouline, 2015Hardcover, 170 pagesAs the title to this coffee table book makes clear, it is the second Portraits book by photographer Richard Schulman; the first was released in 2004. Paul Goldberger, in his introduction, states Schulman didn't...

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Book Review: Conversations with Architects

Conversations with Architects: In the Age of Celebrity by Vladimir BelogolovskyDOM Publishers, 2015Paperback, 584 pagesCurator and author Vladimir Belogolovsky did not set out to make a book on the celebrity phenomenon in architecture, as the name to this collection of 30 interviews with well known...

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Today's archidose #841

Here are some photos of the Communist Party Headquarters (PCF, 1972) in Paris, France, by Oscar Niemeyer, photos by Victor Tsu.To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just::: Join and add photos to the archidose pool To contribute your Instagram images for consideration, just::: Tag...

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