News from Art Daily - 03/03/2010
Guggenheim Announces Online Auction to Benefit Exhibition Programming
Matthew Ritchie (b. 1964, London), The House of GI–A Proposal, 2009. Ink on vellum paper, 72.1 x 100.3 cm. Artwork © Matthew Ritchie. NEW YORK, NY.-
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News from Arts Journal - 02/18/2010
Contemplating The (Guggenheim's) Void
"As part of its ongoing 50th anniversary celebration, the museum invited nearly 200 architects, artists and designers to propose fanciful new uses for the 90-foot-high rotunda of its Frank Lloyd Wright-designed building."
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News from Interior Design - 02/17/2010
Architects and Artists Re-imagine New York's Guggenheim Museum
Controversial when it opened in 1959, New York’s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum , designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, today is a revered architectural work that continues to inspire the current crop of architects.
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News from Interior Design - 02/16/2010
Architects and Artists Re-imagine New York's Guggenheim Museum
"Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum" exhibits nearly 200 reinventions of the building's rotunda.
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News from Interior Design - 02/16/2010
Retail Tree House
In Toyo Ito's flagship store for Tod's in Tokyo, the latticework exterior in cast concrete and glass represents an abstract version of the zelkova trees lining Omotesando Avenue below. The framework is structural and carries the full weight of the building.
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News from Art Daily - 02/13/2010
Artists Imagine Dream Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum
MVRDV, Rotterdam, Netherlands. Let's Jump!, 2009. Digital print, 95.3 x 68.6 cm. Artwork © MVRDV. NEW YORK, NY.-
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News from Japan Today - 02/09/2010
Book Reviews › Twenty-first Century Tokyo: A Guide to Contemporary Architecture
Authors Julian Worrall and Erez Golani Solomon present 83 buildings, from world-renowned projects such as Herzog & de Meuron's Prada building and FOA's spectacular Yokohama…
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News from San Francisco Chronicle - 02/09/2010
Berkeley plan weds the natural, the practical
For better or worse - count me among the skeptics - the Bay Area too often worships process over results. It's more important for everyone to have their say and leave their mark than take a chance on something that might stir our emotions. So when an...
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News from San Francisco Chronicle - 02/08/2010
Berkeley plan weds the natural, the practical
For better or worse - count me among the skeptics - the Bay Area too often worships process over results. It's more important for everyone to have their say and leave their mark than take a chance on something that might stir our emotions. So when an...
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News from The Berkeley Daily Planet - 02/04/2010
University Eyes Printing Plant For New Art Museum
After abandoning plans to construct a new museum, Berkeley Art Musem/Pacific Film Archive announced Wednesday that it is examining the possibility of moving into the former UC Printing Plant at 2120 Oxford St.
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News from Pittsburgh City Paper - 02/04/2010
Famed architectural engineer Cecil Balmond's art installation at the Carnegie fascinates.
In Koolhaas' Bordeaux Villa, Balmond engineered the rectilinearly but precariously cantilevering boxes and beams that seem to upend Modernism and its midwife, gravity. By Charles Rosenblum.
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News from The Berkeley Daily Planet - 01/30/2010
University Eyes Old UC Printing Plant for New Art Museum
After abandoning plans to construct a new museum, Berkeley Art Musem/Pacific Film Archive announced Wednesday that it is examining the possibility of moving into the former UC Printing Plant at 2120 Oxford St.
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News from Contra Costa Times - 01/29/2010
UC Printing Plant may become new home of Berkeley Art Museum
The Berkeley Art Museum hopes to breathe new life into 1930s-era building.
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News from The Berkeley Daily Planet - 01/28/2010
University Eyes Old UC Printing Plant for New Art Museum
After abandoning plans to construct a new museum, Berkeley Art Musem/Pacific Film Archive announced Wednesday that it is examining the possibility of moving into the former UC Printing Plant at 2120 Oxford St.
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News from The Japan Times - 01/28/2010
Structure as natural philosophy
"Cecil Balmond is seen as being almost divine in Japan," says Shino Nomura, the curator of the latest exhibition at Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery. Titled "Element: Cecil Balmond," the show is a dive into the mind and work of perhaps the most celebrated structural engineer alive. Though not quite a household name, Balmond, a Sri Lankan-born and London-based director of storied engineering ...
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News from International Herald Tribune - 01/24/2010
Structural Integrity and People, Too
Chilly perfection is traded for humanity in Iwan Baan’s architectural photographs.
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News from New York Times - 01/23/2010
Structural Integrity and People, Too
Chilly perfection is traded for humanity in Iwan Baan’s architectural photographs.
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News from Art Daily - 01/22/2010
Biennale di Venezia Presents Kazuyo Sejima as Director of the Architecture Sector
Kazuyo Sejima is a leading exponent of contemporary architecture. EFE/Andrea Merola. VENICE.- The Board of Directors of the Biennale di Venezia , chaired by Paolo Baratta, today presented Kazuyo Sejima as Director of the Architecture Sector, with specific responsibility for curating the 12th International Architecture Exhibition to be held in Venice between 29th August and 21st November 2010 ...
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News from Art Daily - 01/22/2010
Biennale di Venezia Presents Kazuyo Sejima as Director of Architecture
Kazuyo Sejima is a leading exponent of contemporary architecture. EFE/Andrea Merola. VENICE.- The Board of Directors of the Biennale di Venezia , chaired by Paolo Baratta, today presented Kazuyo Sejima as Director of the Architecture Sector, with specific responsibility for curating the 12th International Architecture Exhibition to be held in Venice between 29th August and 21st November 2010 ...
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News from Gulf Times - 12/23/2009
A celebration of architectural excellence
AQatar resident has won a prestigious architectural award in New Zealand for his intricately drawn entry. Mohamed Kheir, a New Zealand citizen of Sudanese origin, is the achiever.
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