Interior Design - Institutional News Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:00 P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center Opens "Afterparty" Outdoor Installation
Designed by MOS, the winning project of the Young Architects Program opens along with three summer exhibitions.
Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:00 Bernard Tschumi Architects' New Acropolis Museum Opening June 20
The Athens, Greece museum will feature 150,000 square feet of exhibition space—10 times more than the previous museum—for its collection of antiquities from the Acropolis.
Thu, 21 May 2009 00:00 Calatrava's World Trade Center Hub Revealed in Exhibition
"Santiago Calatrava: World Trade Center Transportation Hub," runs through August 31 at the Queen Sofia Spanish Institute.
Thu, 30 Apr 2009 00:00 Golden Anniversary Marked with Frank Lloyd Wright Retrospective
New York's Guggenheim Museum celebrates 50 years in the master architect's groundbreaking building with "Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward."
Mon, 20 Apr 2009 00:00 Melbourne Office Snags New Green Rating
Geyer's design of the Victorian Auditor General's Office headquarters is the first to be designated as Green Star Office Interiors v1.1 by the Green Building Council of Australia.
Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:00 Maya Lin Unveils Her Environmentally Sensitive "Storm King Wavefield"
The site-specific installation of undulating hills opens May 9 at the Storm King Art Center in New York's Hudson Valley.
Mon, 23 Mar 2009 00:00 McNay Art Museum Reopens After Massive Expansion
The oldest modern art museum in Texas underwent a $50 million renovation and addition that doubled the institution's size.
Sun, 01 Mar 2009 00:00 Unconventional Wisdom
Alfred Zollinger and Sandra Wheeler have a reputation for not taking things at face value. Designing "Ecotopia: The Second ICP Triennial of Photography and Video" at New York's International Center of Photography, the husband-wife partners poked fun at environmental orthodoxy by constructing giant Ecotopiaries.
Sun, 01 Mar 2009 00:00 Some Like It Hot
Philip Johnson was well past 90 years old when, in 1999, he designed a summertime DJ booth and nightclub outside the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in Long Island City, New York. "Ronald Lauder gave the money as a birthday present to Philip," P.S.1 founder Alanna Heiss recalls...
Sun, 01 Mar 2009 00:00 Destination: Transportation
By air, rail, or road, these projects are going places.
Sun, 22 Feb 2009 00:00 Diller Scofidio + Renfro's Alice Tully Hall Opens
Following an extensive renovation, the hall is the first major completed component of the redevelopment of New York's Lincoln Center.
Sun, 01 Feb 2009 00:00 Prairie Light
When an arts organization mounts its first site-specific installation, it's only fitting that a quietly revered designer-engineer receive the commission. Such was the case with the Graham Foundation in Chicago and Arup deputy chairman Cecil Balmond, the go-to guy for art stars and starchitects.
Fri, 30 Jan 2009 00:00 MoMA and P.S.1 Announce Young Architects Program Winner
Architectural firm MOS won the competition to design an urban landscape in P.S.1's courtyard.
Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00 Coming Up Roses: Fernando Romero
Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Museum of Art heats up this winter, starting February 28, with “Laboratory of Architecture/Fernando Romero.”
Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00 Texas Two-Step
He's worked on six continents, in more cities than he can tally, and his restaurants and hotels regularly scale five-star heights. But Adam Tihany never had a project in the Big D. At least not until he was tapped by billionaire oilman Timothy Headington to transform the Dallas National Bank, a 1929 neo-Gothic tower in limestone and granite.
Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00 The Zoo Story
The Grosser Garten is Dresden's crown jewel. It became a public garden in 1814, occupying roughly three quarters of a square mile in the center of the eastern German city. Wide pedestrian paths crisscross the manicured landscape, and the zoo has long been a source of particular pride and joy.
Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00 Flying Business Class
Lee Skolnick's father inspired his son's architectural career, or at least the driven, entrepreneurial side of it. Not long after arriving in Brooklyn, New York, in the 1920's, the senior Skolnick—an émigré from Ukraine—opened a small grocery store that grew a reputation for house-brand preserves.
Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:00 Foster + Partners Designs New Double-Decker for London
The new look, a team effort by Foster, Aston Martin, and Capoco Design, won first place in the Transport for London Competition.
Fri, 19 Dec 2008 00:00 Chanel Pavilion Tour Cancelled
Chanel announced today its decision to cut the remaining legs of the European tour for Zaha Hadid's Mobile Art Pavilion as a result of excess cost in an uncertain global economy.
Mon, 08 Dec 2008 00:00 Interior Design Best of Year Awards Wrap Up at the Guggenheim
The magazine presented 64 awards at the third annual Best of Year Awards at New York's Soloman R. Guggenheim Museum on December 4.
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