News from GlobeSt.com - 07/15/2011
As Demand Rises Downtown, 2 Rector Gets New Tenants
NEW YORK CITY-As interest in the Lower Manhattan market continues to grow , owner/manager Stellar Management has executed a 25,462-square-foot lease at 2 Rector Street with non-profit organization Ithaka --and is currently in the process of negotiating over 30,000 square feet of new leases to be announced shortly, GlobeSt.com has learned.
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News from The Irish Times - 07/14/2011
No Minister: the arts cannot save Ireland
SO ONCE again, kitted out in ramshackle armour and sat upon a flea-bitten nag, Ireland’s artistic heritage is called upon to embark on a quixotic attempt to rescue the country, gamely tilting at the windmills of national catastrophe. Noble as his intentions may be, the proposal by Minister for Arts Jimmy Deenihan to convert Bank of Ireland’s College Green headquarters into a cultural space ...
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News from The Huffington Post - 07/11/2011
Steve Rosenbaum: REFLECTING ABSENSE: Exploring the 9/11 Memorial
tickets for the memorial go online today Michael Arad is someone you need to listen closely too. At first, he seems soft-spoken, almost as if...
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News from Art Daily - 07/10/2011
MoMA Exhibition Examines the Work of Architects and Their Ideas on Urban Renewal in the U.S.
Louis I. Kahn. Traffic Study, project Philadelphia. 1952. Ink, graphite, and cut-and-pasted papers on paper, 24 1/2 x 42 3/4" (62.2 x 108.6 cm). Image courtesy of The Museum of Modern Art.
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News from St. Petersburg Times - 07/08/2011
Design competition for the Pier draws big name architects
ST. PETERSBURG — The architect of New York City's ground zero memorial wants to design the city's $50 million Pier project.
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News from St. Petersburg Times - 07/08/2011
Architect of Ground Zero among big names bidding to design St. Petersburg Pier
By Michael Van Sickler, Times Staff Writer Friday, July 8, 2011 ST. PETERSBURG — The architect of New York City's ground zero wants to design the $50 million Pier project. World-renowned architect Daniel Libeskind's firm is one of 16 firms to notify city officials that they are bidding on the design competition portion of the project. They have until 5 p.m. Friday to register for the contest ...
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News from St. Petersburg Times - 07/08/2011
Big names bidding on Pier design
By Michael Van Sickler, Times Staff Writer Friday, July 8, 2011 ST. PETERSBURG — The architect of New York City's ground zero wants to design the $50 million Pier project. World-renowned architect Daniel Libeskind's firm is one of 16 firms to notify city officials that they are bidding on the design competition portion of the project. They have until 5 p.m. today to register for the contest ...
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News from Curbed LA - 07/05/2011
Arrested Development: Daniel Libeskind Tower's Downtown Site For Sale For $17 Million
Get out your coffin nails, the 43 story Daniel Libeskind tower proposed for South Park is looking sicker than ever--the project site's been put up for sale for $17 million. The project, which comes from a Korean investment group,...
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News from Independent - 07/02/2011
Serpentine Gallery Pavilions, By Philip Jodidio
The opening of the 11th annual Serpentine Gallery Pavilion on Friday marked what has become a celebrated event in London's summer diary.
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News from Wired News - 06/28/2011
June 28, 2005: It’s an Office Tower, Yet So Much More Than That
The building that will replace the fallen World Trade Center towers is fraught with symbolism -- and reinforced as hell.
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News from Crain's New York Business - 06/21/2011
WTC master planner takes top award
The author of the design road map for rebuilding the World Trade Center site will receive the highest honor bestowed by the New York chapter of the American Institute of Architects Tuesday evening. Daniel Libeskind, who became an overnight celebrity in the city in 2003 when his proposal for the World Trade Center site, dubbed “Memory Foundations,” was chosen by officials to be the master plan ...
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News from Denver Post - 06/19/2011
Clay goes out on a limb with DAM's "Overthrown" exhibit
Wet and raw. Glazed and fired. Mounted, stacked, suspended and combined. Clay in nearly every permutation imaginable can be seen in "Overthrown: Clay Without Limits" — the largest and most ambitious of the eight new exhibitions that make up "Marvelous Mud" at the Denver Art Museum.
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News from Art Daily - 06/14/2011
Museum-Wide Exhibition Celebrates Clay Through the Ages and From Around the World
Dieter Appelt, Untitled (Erinnerungsspur / Memory's Trace), 1979. Gelatin silver print, no. 11/25; 15-3/4 x 12 in. Courtesy Priska C. Juschka Fine Art.
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News from The Kansas City Star - 06/11/2011
The are plenty of engaging art shows that are worth a road trip
If you’re willing to hop in the car or spring for a plane ticket, you can get dreamy in St. Louis, sate yourself on installation art in Denver, fly the flag for homegrown art in Wichita and take in one of the year’s hottest traveling shows in Chicago.
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News from Los Angeles Times - 06/07/2011
Party time again: Michelle Obama explains the Angela Merkel state dinner for you guys without invites
Germany's leader is feted at the Obamas' fourth White House State Dinner.
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News from PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance - 06/02/2011
TAG Heuer Opens First North American Flagship in Las Vegas
Reinforcing its position as a purveyor of technologically advanced and aesthetically arresting timepieces, TAG Heuer, the leading Swiss luxury watch brand, will celebrate the opening of its first North American flagship, located within Las Vegas' most prestigious shopping destination, Crystals at CityCenter. Â The official grand opening commences with a Ribbon Cutting at 10am on Thursday, June 2 ...
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News from Antiques and the Arts - 05/31/2011
New Exhibition Celebrates Clay Through The Ages & From Around The World
:The Denver Art Museum takes a closer look at the medium of clay in its exhibition "Marvelous Mud: Clay Through the Ages." Celebrating the prolific and diverse material, "Marvelous Mud" reveals how clay has shaped culture, creativity, science and industry over time and around the globe.
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News from Los Angeles Times - 05/27/2011
Critic's Notebook: When it comes to architecture, museums forsake the past
Institutions including SFMOMA, the Whitney, the Barnes Foundation and MoMA plan various additions and exits, a boom for contemporary architects but a bust for architectural history. Even with the economic recovery limping along, American museums keep planning, raising piles of money for and opening new wings. An architecture critic — at least one with a high tolerance for the work of Renzo Piano ...
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News from New York Times - 05/26/2011
Talea Ensemble Performs at Bohemian National Hall - Review
The Talea Ensemble offered a program of striking works by the Austrian composer Olga Neuwirth at Bohemian National Hall.
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News from Guardian Unlimited - 05/22/2011
BBC North – review
MediaCityUK, Salford Quays The BBC has long been bipolar when it comes to its buildings. The balance of power has long swung between its visionaries and bean-counters, at least since the rising architect Norman Foster designed a dazzling new building for BBC Radio in 1982, only for it to be scrapped in favour of some dim sheds in White City. Early in the last decade the Beeb tried to play Medici ...
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