Book of the Moment: Six Canonical Projects by Rem Koolhaas

Ingrid Böck's Six Canonical Projects by Rem Koolhaas: Essays on the History of Ideas will be released by Jovis on July 28.Per the publisher's website:Rem Koolhaas has been part of the international avant-garde since the nineteen-seventies and has been named the Pritzker Architecture Prize for the year...

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Book Review: MONU #22

MONU #22 - Transnational UrbanismReviewed by Iulia Hurducaș[All photographs are courtesy of MONU Magazine.]Continuing the conversation on urbanism, this issue of MONU Magazine picks up on a topic opened in MONU #8 on border urbanism. Transnational Urbanism expands the topic of trans-border relations...

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Andrei Tarkovsky, Sculpting in Time

Mark your calendars: MAD (Museum of Arts and Design) is presenting a retrospective of director Andrei Tarkovsky's films this Summer. Andrei Tarkovsky, Sculpting in Time "presents the work of the revolutionary director and includes screenings – all on 35 mm – of all seven feature films and a behind-the-scenes...

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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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