Nouvel Wins Pritzker

“The jury acknowledged the ‘persistence, imagination, exuberance, and, above all, an insatiable urge for creative experimentation’ as qualities abundant in Nouvel’s work.”

· French Architect Wins Pritzker Prize [New York Times]
· Nouvel’s ‘Exuberance’ Rewarded with Pritzker [NPR.org]
· Nouveau Nouvel [Life Without Buildings]
[images via NPR.org and NYTimes photo galleries]

Fashion, Architecture, Tastefully

Giant globes float over the runway for a Yves Saint Laurent show in Paris’ cavernous Grand Palais and my mind is completely blown. These images will haunt me all weekend. I had no idea fashion shows could be so… sublime.

And this Alexander McQueen show featured an enormous web of fluorescent lighting spun menacingly [...]

Local Architects Shaping the New New Orleans

Contemporary architecture is making some welcome headway in post-Katrina New Orleans — at least if we look at the top four winners of this year’s New Orleans AIA Awards.

[Image via studiowta.com]
The Rebuild Center at St. Joseph Church, designed by Wayne Troyer Architects is a community resource center built from six trailers, organized around a courtyard [...]

Sneak Peak Inside Libeskind’s New Jewish Museum

Over at Curbed SF this week, a sneak peek into the recently finished Contemporary Jewish Museum. Designed by Daniel Libeskind, the museum doesn’t officially open until this summer so there were no crowds or installations to detract from the space. Whether or not that’s a good thing is subjective, but this CJM is thankfully one [...]

What’s Up With All The Death Stars?

It’s a case of life imitating art as Death Stars sprout around the globe and the inevitable looms as competing Galactic Empires will surely annihilate the planet. Rem Koolhaas strikes first with a new scheme for Dubai. It’s like Manhattan…but way more futuristic and in the desert:
[Image via NYT]
The 44-story sphere is actually a “a [...]