Koolhaas and Prada Team Up on Art Force Field in Milan

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Rem Koolhaas’ most recent collaboration with Miuccia Prada isn’t a store in Dubai or a high-rise in New York, it’s an ambitious interdisciplinary arts center in Milan. Koolhaas will transform an industrial complex in the Italian city for the Prada Foundation, whose director says the project’s goal is “to create a force [...]

The Complex Worlds of Vasco Mourão

Illustrator Vasco Mourão creates incredibly imaginative drawings of subterranean cities, dirigible homes, and cliff-side housing. Life Without Buildings is of the opinion that these are the typologies architects really should be focusing on. Odd and distopic, his drawings are reminiscent of a looser, more whimsical Piranesi etching. Although I think it’d be nice to see [...]

Herzog & de Meuron Unveil Tate 2: Electric Boogaloo

[left: original rendering. right: revised rendering]
Revised plans and renderings were recently unveiled of Herzog & de Meuron’s addition to London’s Tate Modern Museum, aka Tate 2. The original design (above left) was a little perplexing: a loosely stacked pile of metal and glass boxes, referred to by architecture critic Hugh Pearman as a “joyous asymmetrical [...]

Restorefront Blogs the Storefront for Art and Architecture Renovation

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New York’s Storefront for Art and Architecture is documenting the renovation of their Kenmare Street…ah, storefront in a new blog. Restorefront for Art and Architecture has some great pictures and commentary on the process of renovating the now-iconic revolving and rotating doors. A couple more pics after the jump.

The Wire and Baltimore’s Architecture

“The Wire is the opposite of escapism. It gives you the measure of an entire city, a real city - one that can trace many of its problems back to its architecture, or rather the failure of its architecture.” That quote comes from The Guardian’s architecture-centric review of HBO’s The Wire, a series often hailed [...]

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