News from New York Post - 03/16/2010
He will survive! A timeline of Bruce Ratner's Atlantic Yards
Thursday’s symbolic groundbreaking of the Atlantic Yards project practically demands a look back at the long history of this ambitious and controversial project. Here’s a timeline.December 10, 2003Flanked by Jay-Z, his starchitect Frank Gehry, Mayor Bloomberg, the former Nets and Knicks legend Bernard King and Borough President...
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News from Palm Beach Daily News - 03/16/2010
Building consensus: Coudert Institute experts debate modern architecture, design
Although it wasn't billed that way, a forum on design and architecture sponsored this month by the Coudert Institute at the Sailfish Club ended up exploring how modernism frequently turns its back on classicism — and whether that's ultimately a good idea.
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News from Playbill - 03/16/2010
PHOTO CALL: Gehry's Models for the New Signature Theatre Venue
The Signature Theatre Company unveiled architect Frank Gehry's models for the Signature Center, a new permanent 3-stage Manhattan home for the company.
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News from Playbill - 03/16/2010
Signature Theatre Shows Off Models for Its New Three-Venue NYC Home
Signature Theatre Company unveiled the models for the Signature Center, a new permanent Manhattan home for the company, currently under construction as part of Related Companies' mixed-use development on 42nd Street and 10th Avenue.
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News from The Moscow Times - 03/16/2010
Construction to Begin on Prokhorov's NJ Nets Stadium
NEW YORK — Officials broke ground Thursday on a much-delayed 9-hectare development project that will bring the NBA's New Jersey Nets, owned by billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov, to Brooklyn.
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News from Interior Design - 03/16/2010
Omni+ Giving Away Prism on Twitter for St. Patrick’s Day
The lucky Twitter follower will be chosen at random on March 18. It will take the luck of the Irish to win the Omni+ St. Patrick’s Day promotion. The home-theater furniture manufacturer is giving away an appropriately colored green Prism, a Karim Rashid -designed trapezoidal media console, to a randomly selected winner who retweets the promotion anytime through St. Patrick’s Day, when the ...
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News from Interior Design - 03/16/2010
Big BAM
Commissioned to replace the carpet in the cinema center at New York's Brooklyn Academy of Music, designers with a flair for the obvious might have simply rolled out the red. Madeline Weinrib, on the other hand, conjured up free-flowing botanical imagery.
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News from WLOX-TV Biloxi - 03/15/2010
Biloxi City Council will discuss Ohr-O'Keefe funding request
BILOXI, MS (WLOX) - First Hurricane Katrina and then a national recession. Construction of the Ohr-O'Keefe Museum of Art in Biloxi endured significant setbacks from both the storm and the economy.
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News from Arts Journal - 03/15/2010
Signature Theatre Gets New Home, Just Not At Ground Zero
The 42nd Street space still has "three theaters of varying sizes; an open lobby with a cafe and a bookstore; and the prominent [Frank] Gehry as designer."
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News from Independent - 03/15/2010
History with room to breathe
Tonight, Nigella Lawson will be guest of honour as London's Jewish Museum opens its new grey metal doors in Camden. Inside the extended building, the (almost) fabulous baker boys – not to mention Yiddish karaoke – are waiting for a new audience. Bakers and karaoke are not just trivial factoids. They're typically lively subjects in a reborn museum determined to illuminate the values, history and ...
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News from New York Times - 03/15/2010
New Signature Theater, Close to the Old
The Signature Theater Company’s new home, designed by Frank Gehry, won’t be as grand as the one planned for the World Trade Center site, but it is more affordable.
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News from The Moscow Times - 03/15/2010
Construction to Begin on Prokhorov's NJ Nets Stadium
NEW YORK — Officials broke ground Thursday on a much-delayed 9-hectare development project that will bring the NBA's New Jersey Nets, owned by billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov, to Brooklyn.
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News from New York Times - 03/15/2010
At the Corner of Grit and Glamour
Jean Nouvel’s new residential tower in Chelsea conjures a downtown New York we once loved and can now barely remember.
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News from Interior Design - 03/15/2010
Herzog & de Meuron’s VitraHaus Opens in Germany
The new headquarters for the manufacturer’s home collection features products by Charles & Ray Eames, Isamu Noguchi, Antonio Citterio and Jasper Morrison.
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News from New York Times - 03/14/2010
At the Corner of Grit and Glamour
Jean Nouvel’s new residential tower in Chelsea conjures a downtown New York we once loved and can now barely remember.
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News from Vancouver Sun - 03/14/2010
Home unimprovement: Inside the Vancouver Art Gallery’s rejected renovation plans
VANCOUVER - The Vancouver Art Gallery’s proposal to build a new gallery on the old Greyhound bus depot site at Georgia and Cambie has stirred a fair bit of controversy.
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News from Express India - 03/14/2010
Women chefs in Canada put food, not minority status on menu
Canadian women chefs say it is time to stop worrying about their minority status in the cutthroat restaurant business because there are plenty of other things to put on the menu.
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News from Guardian Unlimited - 03/13/2010
Brad the builder in New Orleans
After the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, Brad Pitt called in the world's top architects for his acclaimed Make It Right project. The plan was to build green homes to replace those destroyed in New Orleans.
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News from Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - 03/13/2010
Where Art and Haute Cuisine Meet in Paris
THE rectangular white box beckoned from the exhibition room, mysterious and inscrutable. As winter clouds rolled across the Parisian sky, I watched as visitors to the Palais de Tokyo contemporary-art museum paused before the work -- "Untitled (A Curse)," by the American conceptual artist Tom Friedman -- and puzzled over its significance. Were we staring at something groundbreaking or derivative ...
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News from The World - 03/13/2010
Opponents protest groundbreaking for Brooklyn arena
NEW YORK -- Officials broke ground Thursday on a much-delayed 22-acre development project that will bring the NBA's New Jersey Nets to Brooklyn.
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