Architecture Lab

A Method of Living

aline chahine — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 07:47:27 +0000

Posted in News

As a sociologist interested in visual representation, I have been photographing the sites and projects of the Chicago Housing Authority — the municipal agency that since the late 1930s has directed the planning and development of the city's public housing.

OMA to design new home for Dasha Zhukova’s Garage

aline chahine — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 06:49:49 +0000

Posted in News

The Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, founded by Dasha Zhukova in Moscow in 2008, is moving to a new home designed by OMA in Gorky Park, next to the Moskva river. From early next year, the Garage's will occupy the former Vremena Goda (Four Seasons) restaurant, built in the 1960s but abandoned and decaying since the 1990s.

Hamburg sues over Herzog & de Meuron’s pricey, late concert hall

aline chahine — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 11:50:44 +0000

Posted in News

Hamburg city is suing the firm building its landmark new concert hall for going tens of millions of euros over-budget and being at least four years late.

Video: Museum of African American History and Culture

aline chahine — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 10:14:37 +0000

Posted in Videos & Interviews

When the Museum of African American History and Culture opens on the National Mall in 2015, it will be "not just a record of tragedy, but a celebration of life," as President Obama said during the ground breaking ceremony on the site.

Pay Phones’ Libraries

aline chahine — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 08:24:37 +0000

Posted in News

John Locke thinks people should read more. So in the past few months, the Columbia architecture grad has slipped around Manhattan with a sack of books and custom-made shelves, converting old pay phones into pop-up libraries.

John Pawson: A Visual Inventory

aline chahine — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 05:35:04 +0000

Posted in News

The Minimalist Architect Shares the Eclectic Vistas that Caught His Lens

SOM Wins Master Plan Competition for Beijing Bohai Innovation City

aline chahine — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:14:44 +0000

Posted in Competitions news & results

A new model of compact, environmentally enhanced urban design by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM) for the rapid development of satellite cities along Chinese high speed rail corridors has won an international design competition with its Beijing Bohai Innovation City master plan.

The Rhythm of a City Block

aline chahine — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:29:23 +0000

Posted in News

In the last few years, brand-name architects have made their mark on New York in an unusual way: by building apartment buildings.

Saudi Arabia Embassy, Sarajevo / Bosnia & Herzegovina by RAB Architects

aline chahine — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 18:04:29 +0000

Posted in Projects

An embassy is a reflection of its country and its silent messenger that complements as well as completes the Ambassador’s mission.

Brad Pitt’s foundation to help redevelop Bancroft School

aline chahine — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:40:06 +0000

Posted in News

A bond forged in storm-ravaged New Orleans between actor Brad Pitt and a local architecture firm is bearing fruit in Kansas City — and may show the path forward to reusing dozens of empty schools.

LEGO apartments San Francisco

aline chahine — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:01:50 +0000

Posted in Videos & Interviews

...affordable, prefab+tiny homes. To create a smarter space, Kennedy constructed a 160-square-foot test home (the smallest legal-sized apartment for California) inside a Berkeley herehouse.

Privately owned public spaces’ potential, pitfalls

aline chahine — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 20:22:50 +0000

Posted in News

In the past five years, six unusual public spaces have opened in downtown San Francisco as spin-offs of large development projects.....

New director to take over reins of The Glass House

aline chahine — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 15:19:25 +0000

Posted in News

The Glass House and The National Trust for Historic Preservation have announced Urbach's appointment as Director of the historic site.

Reconstruction of former police station to apartment building, Riga / Latvia by NRJA

aline chahine — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 14:11:49 +0000

Posted in Projects

For the first decade of the 20th century solid position in different formal versions maintained "brick style". It was characteristic for industrial and public buildings, such as the police station building in Kugu Street, 15/17 (around 1900).