Chatsworth

New York’s High Line, the ele­va­ted aban­do­ned rail line along the West Side of Man­hat­tan cur­rently being trans­for­med into a park, will be framed at 23rd street by a four­teen story con­do­mi­nium tower ap­pro­pria­tely named HL23 and de­si­gn…

The Cha­nel Con­tem­porary Art Con­tai­ner, un­mis­t­aka­bly de­si­gned by Zaha Hadid, opened at the end of Fe­bru­ary 2008 in Hong Kong, the first venue among 8 ci­ties. Fol­lo­wing the idea of Chanel-designer Karl La­ger­feld, the tem­porary mu­seu…

The Ame­ri­can In­sti­tute of Ar­chi­tects, AIA named its 10 re­ci­pi­ents of the 2008 Young Ar­chi­tects Award. The list of names, along with short bio­gra­phies were an­noun­ced at the end of Ja­nu­ary 2008. The bes­to­wal will take place at the AI…

Last week was mar­ked by Zaha Hadid’s dou­ble win of the de­sign com­pe­ti­ti­ons for the Eli and Edy­the Broad Art Mu­seum in Mi­chi­gan, and the Li­lium Tower in War­saw. Fur­ther, Zaha Hadid Ar­chi­tects has re­vea­led de­signs for an ex­ten­sion …

Parked in front of each screen in the ex­hi­bi­tion is a model of the most com­monly dri­ven car in the city that fea­tures on that par­ti­cu­lar screen. Vi­si­tors sit into the cars and film foo­tage trans­ports them along road­ways through the nine…

Architecture with a fla­vour The first part of his lec­ture fo­cu­sed on what makes ar­chi­tec­ture 'good'. For Van Egeraat it is pre­cisely the un­ne­cessary ac­cess­ories and de­co­ra­tive ele­ments that give ar­chi­tec­ture its par­ti­cu­lar fla­v…

The LACMA is a com­plex of dif­fe­rent buil­dings. In the last 36 years the mu­seum gra­dually ex­pan­ded with new buil­dings or ad­di­ti­ons to exis­ting buil­dings. The architects' man­date was to trans­form the many buil­dings into a co­he­sive de…

Kleiburg is a ty­pi­cal Bi­jl­mer block from the early 1970s with 500 ren­tal dwel­lings on ten floors. The block is lo­ca­ted in what is known as the Bi­jl­mer Mu­seum, where the blocks and sur­roun­ding space will pre­serve their ori­gi­nal form an…

Jon Jerde and com­pany can be con­side­red the foun­ding fa­thers of the type of shop­ping and lei­sure plaza sought after by every city that wants to com­pete against other ci­ties in the glo­bal arena: large in scale, all-encompassing, spec­ta­cu­l…

Photos of dif­fe­rent parts of the city al­ways show the viewer so­me­thing that can­not be seen 'in reality'. Firstly, that is be­cause of the pic­ture frame, which turns the pho­tos into so­me­thing of a win­dow on or re­flec­tion of so­ciety. Then…

Content is an ex­hi­bi­tion about Rem Kool­haas and, more pre­cisely, by Rem Kool­haas, as is often the case with ex­hi­bi­ti­ons de­vo­ted to li­ving ar­chi­tects. The vi­si­tor is of­fe­red a glim­pse in­side the architect's of­fice. How do OMA pro…

OMA re­cei­ved the com­mis­sion after win­ning an in­ter­na­tio­nal de­sign com­pe­ti­tion in 1998. An im­portant ele­ment of the de­sign, and the re­a­son it was pro­bably cho­sen, is the 150-metre-long, stainless-steel, sound­proof tube that en­cir…

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John Ent­anza, edi­tor of the ar­chi­tec­ture ma­ga­zine Arts & Ar­chi­tec­ture, in­itia­ted the Case Study House Pro­gram in 1945. As the in­tro­duc­tion to the book out­li­nes, Ent­anza saw the pro­gramme as a way to 'offer the pu­blic and the …

Van der Lee­uws role in the Dutch ar­chi­tec­ture may be well known, but it is not very well­known that he has alse been ac­tive in Ame­rica. In the thir­ties he fi­nan­ci­ally sup­por­ted Ri­chard Neu­tra with the con­struc­tion of his own home and …