In light of the fact that Chicago (well, the Chicago region) is first among cities that can boast as backdrops for Frank Lloyd Wright’s legacy, I thought it only appropriate to take inspiration from him for fixing Chicago’s most recent, ill-fated, act of architectural braggadocio.
Among the thousands of real-estate developments that fell victim to changing economic [...]
More than a couple critics have located both the climax and requisite decline of an “architectural epoch” in the last decade. During that time, the United States - and by extension, much of the world - built up for itself a real-estate bubble just begging to be popped. And popped it was.
Among the high-profile development victims were Frank Gehry’s Brooklyn [...]
Washington, D.C. bicyclists got a big morale boost last month, when the Bicycle Transit Center opened to the public. Essentially a parking garage with changing rooms, the new hub has room for 150 bicycles - all of which get to reside in a beautiful structure designed by KGP Design Studio. The building is unabashedly different [...]
After observing the “complications” afflicting Santiago Calatrava’s design for the Peace Bridge in Calgary, Canada (in brief: decent design; unpopular approval process; too expensive), it was pleasant to stumble upon the Henderson Waves and Alexandra Arch, which make up portions of a singular system of bridges hovering above one of Singapore’s national parks.
The spans connect [...]
Honestly, if you were to tour the top 10 American cities worth visiting because of their architecture (post coming soon!), would Atlanta even be in the top 20? Top 30? Exaggeration (is it really?) aside, I think it is fair to say that even the most pro-Atlanta tourism director would be hard-pressed to compete with [...]
All designers (architects, et al) have portfolios revealing certain stylistic tendencies. Some express an ongoing fascination with texture; others are intrigued with a certain material such as concrete (Tadao Ando), corrugated metal (Shuhei Endo), or wood (James Cutler); still others narrow in on a particular vernacular (David Salmela).
However, even though common themes inevitablly permeate each designer’s [...]