A new lightweight lift cable will let buildings soar ever upward. , full_html
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The other Km-high club
Between the Huangpu River and the Pudong skyline, between old and new, public and private, exterior and interior, construction and finishing, concrete and Cor-Ten steel; The Waterhouse emerges, another amazing building by…
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The Waterhouse by Neri&Hu. Photography by Pedro Pegenaute
On Thursday, June 20, at 7:00pm EST, at Van Alen Books welcomes Diller Scofidio + Renfro for a film screening of "Reimagining Lincoln Center and the High Line", a 54-minute documentary offering insights into the firm’s history, completed projects,…
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Special Screening of Diller Scofidio Renfro Documentary
"Le Corbusier: An Atlas of Modern Landscapes", the largest exhibition ever produced in New York of the protean and influential oeuvre of Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, French, b. Switzerland, 1887–1965), encompasses his work as an…
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Installation view of the exhibition Le Corbusier: An Atlas of Modern Landscapes. June 15–September 23, 2013. © 2013. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Photograph: Jonathan Muzikar
Within the residential complex Lotte Jeju Resort, Kengo Kuma designs Block D. The house appears as a result of translating the landscape into the house scale. Because of the use of the volcanic stone, the house emerges from the ground as if it…
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Outside vision. Image © courtesy of Kengo Kuma
The Pritzker Architecture Prize jury will not revisit its decision to exclude the architect Denise Scott Brown from the 1991 prize given to her design partner and husband, Robert Venturi, with whom she worked side by side. , full_html
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Architect Denise Scott Brown. Photography © Courtesy Ryan Collerd
At the age of 87, architect Francisco Javier Carvajal (1926-2013) has died today in Madrid. In his career, he has produced a great architectural quality work, awarded with the Gold Medal of Architecture last November, by the Consejo Superior de…
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Architect Javier Carvajal
OMA's design for a new bridge across the river Garonne in Bordeaux has been selected as one of two final competing projects by the city authorities. OMA's stripped-down design for the Pont Jean-Jacques Bosc attempts to rethink the civic function and…
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General vision. Pont Jean-Jacques Bosc. Image © courtesy of OMA
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has revealed the winners of the 2013 RIBA National Awards, the most rigorously-judged awards for architectural excellence. RIBA National Award winning buildings set the standard for good architecture…
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Ecumenopolis, COAC audiovisual program presents the film Agronautas., full_html
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ECUMENÓPOLIS. AGRONAUTAS by Juan Dopico Massobrio