The Bas­que me­tro­po­lis is an attrac­tive de­sti­na­tion for lo­vers of ar­chi­tec­ture: Bilbao's de­ve­lop­ment into a hot­spot of mo­dern ar­chi­tec­ture star­ted with Gehry's de­sign of the Gug­gen­heim Mu­seum 15 years ago. The re­…

From an urban bar­rier to con­nec­ting city buil­ding block: a mo­nu­men­tal lis­ted train via­duct near Zurich’s main …

The last of these op­tions, preser­va­tion of local cul­tural and spa­tial char­ac­ter­is­tics, is gen­er­ally con­sid­ered the most at­trac­tive. Sim­i­lar sen­ti­ments sur­face in dis­cus­sions about glob­al­i­sa­tion and the dis­ap­pear­ance of…

When I saw the Dutch pavil­ion I was pleas­antly sur­prised to see it fea­tured the word 'Fresh' in its ex­hi­bi­tion title. It re­minded me of my ar­ti­cle 'Fresh Conservatism', in which I ex­pressed reser­va­tions about the seem­ingly pro­gres­s…

Back­ground

Early 1990s. Four ar­chi­tects – Rem Kool­haas, Wim Quist, Carel Wee­ber and Robert Ven­turi – are in­vited to make pro­pos­als to im­prove the Stedelijk Mu­seum. Robert Venturi's pro­posal wins.

1993. The ex­ten­s…