New MoMA Tower

A new planned skyscraper next-door to MoMA, designed by Jean Nouvel, could bring a bit of architectural variety to the skyline along Sixth Avenue, known for its boxy, giant modernist towers.
The tower, revealed today by New York Times architecture critic Nicolai Ouroussoff, would rise to a staggering 75 stories on 54th Street just east of [...]

Hall of Fragments – Venice Biennale

Rockwell Group, in collaboration with Jones + Kroloff, designed “Hall of Fragments,” the entrance installation to “Out There: Architecture Beyond Building,” the main exhibition for the 2008 11th annual Venice Architecture Biennale. Passage through the installation disengages visitors from the bricks and mortar of Venice and connects them to the alternative world of “Architecture Beyond [...]

Urban Umbrella

Notes from an Architectural Exhibition in Talca.
by Mauricio Ramírez Molina *

The initial idea was thought provoking: construct a covering using 400 red umbrellas (outside of their intended purpose) suspended over the new pedestrian mall in the city of Talca to create a visual impression of the inhabitants of a city in which it [...]

Pereira Miguel ARQ | Casa Monte na Comporta

Casa Monte na Comporta in Grândola, Portugal is a house that sits in its surroundings as if it had always been there yet it also manages to look completely fresh, cool, new and spectacular.
The house’s undulating shape echoes the gently sloping sand dunes, and its hard and angular surface planes contrast beautifully with the rounded [...]

Ron Arad – Cage Sans Frontières 2009

Ron Arad: No Discipline
New York, August 2, 2009–October 19, 2009
The Museum of Modern Art, The International Council of The Museum of Modern Art Gallery, sixth floor
Ron Arad: No Discipline celebrates the designer’s interdisciplinary and “no-disciplinary” spirit. Physical concepts are traced through works in different materials and scales, and objects are grouped in families based on [...]

Will Alsop Architecture

William Alsop (born 12 December 1947) is a British architect based in London. He is responsible for several distinctive and controversial modernist buildings, most in the United Kingdom. Alsop’s buildings are usually distinguished by their use of bright colour and unusual forms. Because of his avant-garde and strikingly different buildings, Will Alsop has always been [...]