Espace Monestié, a new urban center designed by Puig Pujol Associés architectures in the west of Toulouse, France, that represents an opportunity for urban intensification. , full_html
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As part of the "Foros Esarq 2014: Transformations", series of talks, architect Solano Benítez (Paraguay, 1963) will give a talk about his most prominent projects. , full_html
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La estancia by Solano Benitez
The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library contains the principal rare books and literary manuscripts of Yale University and serves as a center for research by students, faculty, and other scholars, whether affiliated with Yale or not. Materials…
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Photograph of the Beinecke building and plaza. Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, circa 1965. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Skidm
Saturday's protest at the Guggenheim was performed by Global Ultra Luxury Faction, an offshoot of Gulf Labor – a coalition of international artists and activists who have been working since 2011 to bring attention to the conditions that the workers…
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Half-way between Florence and Siena we find this winery whose main objetive is to be part of the landscape. In this way, being half-buried, its integration in the surroundings are bigger and the program attempt to develop in a optimal temperature…
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Inner vision, Antinori Winery by Archea Associati. Image © Pietro Savorelli
In this latest installment of the “What Made Me” video series by Poppy de Villeneuve, Renfro reveals how a childhood bully helped set him on his life path, remembers his early education gawking at Houston skyscrapers and explains his architectural…
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Charles Renfro, Architect
How do creatives – composers, painters, writers, scientists, philosophers – find the time to produce their opus? Anyone who does creative work knows how difficult it can be to structure your day to maximize productivity. Do you wake up and write…
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Le Corbusier did morning calisthenics
OMA has completed the new Amsterdam headquartersthe of the fashion brand G-Star RAW. The building with 140-metre-long is sits over a large plinth that raises it up to the level of the road. It is wrapped by a dark concrete frame that houses the…
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Exterior view. Photography © G-Star RAW. Courtesy of OMA
Previously was the National Building Museum, in Washington, D.C. with the title "Palaces for the People: Guastavino and America’s Great Public Spaces" and now at Museum of the City of New York, "Palaces for the People: Guastavino and the Art of…
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Guastavino tile vaults at City Hall Subway Station with polychrome glaze, New York City, architects Heins and LaFarge (1904). Photography © Michael Freeman
In anticipation of the last Mad Men season 7 (April 13 on US and April 14 on Canal Spain), and because today on AMC (US) is back Mad Men season 6 premiere, TIME brings to you a rare insider’s tour of the Time & Life Building in the 1960s. ,…
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The last days os Mad Men on Time cover