(Reading Tom– flickr/creative commons license) Frank Gehry designed the IAC Headquarters in New York, completed in 2007. The building’s form is rather tame for Frank Gehry, especially as Richard Meier projects and a Jean Nouvel project rose nearby. …
Month: July 2015
(A. Strakey– flickr/creative commons license) The Apple Store in SoHo, New York City is a manifestation of the company’s product, a pure representation. The reuse of a 1920s post office produces a glass box on the sidewalk that advertises transparency, …
The Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay 滨海艺术中心- lies along the Marina Bay of the Singapore River. It contains a concert hall, theater, library, and shopping mall. It was designed by DP Architects and Michael Wilford & Partners, completed in …
Kengo Kuma designed the Bato-machi Ando Hiroshige Museum in Nasu Tochigi Japan. It was completed in 2000. It is largely inspired by the painting “People on a Bridge Surprised by Rain” by Ando Hiroshige. Kuma employs his typical …
(yusunkwon– flickr/creative commons license) Atelier Bow-Wow designed this home without interior walls. The building dimensions are only 3 x 6 x 11.5m. The minimal stairs divide the 9 rooms as circulation proceeds up to the roof. The site is only …
(rs-foto– flickr/creative commons license) Pritzker Prize winner Gottfried Böhm and Severin Heiermann designed the Zentralbibliothek in the Neue Mitte of Ulm, Baden-Württemberg Germany. It was completed in 2004. The Central Library came at a time Ulm sought to rejuvenate its …
(interestedbystandr– flickr/creative commons license) “Obliteration Room” exhibited in Brisbane 2015 Yayoi Kusama (b. 1929) delves deep into psychology and her own experiences in her installation art. As an “obsessive artist,” she creates repetitive wacky forms that reflect the hallucinations she …
(j lord– flickr/creative commons license) The Basel viewing warehouse contains a museum collection of Emanuel Hoffmann’s art. It was completed in 2003. Herzog and De Meuron rethought the concept of warehouse in this project. As a primordial structure as honest …
(bisku– flickr/creative commons license) The 55-story, 256 m WTC Cosmo Tower is the second tallest building in Japan. It was designed in Nikken Sekkei + Mancini Duffy Associates, completed in 1995. The top observation deck sits as an …
(dane brian– flickr/creative commons license) Kohn Shnier Architects and Figure 3 designed the Umbra Retail Store in Toronto, completed in 2007. This redesign of an existing structure uses pink polycarbonate panels to bring vertical unity to the two floors. Interior …