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Although the jury citation for this year’s Pritzker Prize was written to praise SANAA’s Kazuo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, a couple phrases bubble over with unmistakable disdain for unnamed (but very identifiable) architects who stand little chance of winning a Pritzker from the current jury.     
This year’s 8-member jury (the roster changes over time and varies between [...]

“Villa Libeskind” takes prefab to the extreme.
Extreme?  Well yes, if “extreme” does not mean “future” or imply that Daniel Libeskind is really making a substantive contribution to the prefab architecture movement.
A few months ago, I sensed the palpable irony of Daniel Libeskind’s dabble in prefab, even before any villa was built.  Now that the first [...]

What does CityCenter have to say about Ground Zero?  In an interview with Bloomberg architecture critic James O. Russell, James Murren noted how his approach to developing CityCenter was influenced by the design competition that preceded the quagmire at Ground Zero.  But the intrepid CEO of MGM Mirage, co-owner of CityCenter with Dubai World, could have [...]

Like an amoeba with a social agenda or blob with an ax to grind, a taut, fluid canopy of rigid aluminum is temporarily - and refreshingly - tethered to the lawn beside London’s Serpentine Gallery, proving once again that public pavilions are excellent venues for either falling on your face or validating praise already won.  This [...]

Stumbling upon this beer (Busch, thank you) bottle house sure adds a bit of perspective to ongoing efforts at sustainable and adaptive-reuse design.  It was built in 1905 by a fellow named Tom Kelly in Ryolite, Nevada (for which a mining boom went bust and all life left in 1920).  Faced with the area’s scarcity [...]

NYTimes:  Libeskind Designs a Prefab Home
No, irony does not lurk in the article title.  But if you read the article, you may experience a twinge of amusement as you contemplate the great Mr. Libeskind’s foray into prefab design, which he drippingly describes as “unprecedented around the world.”
Prefab design (here: a directory of prefab manufacturers and Inhabitat’s top-10 list) is a growing [...]