1+ mon, 4+ week ago   (273+ words) A new 6,500-square-foot building, made primarily of timber, designed by EskewDumezRipple in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, serves as a “civic gateway” to the Burden Museum & Gardens, and the LSU AgCenter Botanic Gardens campus more broadly. Landscape architecture firm CARBO worked in…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (564+ words) Boston Mayor Michelle Wu named Joseph Henry as the city’s new chief of arts in culture in May. Today, Henry is working with Utile on Boston’s first cultural infrastructure plan; and collaborating with ISA, Assemble, and Supernormal on 290 North Beacon,…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (267+ words) The MIT Museum announced this week it has acquired the archive of I. M. Pei, an MIT alum, class of 1940. The archive contains ephemera from the Pritzker Prize–winning architect’s 64-year career. “This landmark donation marks the homecoming of I. M. Pei…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (220+ words) The Architect’s Newspaper Across the English and French countrysides, vernacular farm coops once kept pigeons for meat and guano, while more elaborate Palladian follies—and occasional modernist experiments—pushed the dovecote into aesthetic and spiritual realms beyond subsistence. From Persian…...

3+ mon, 3+ day ago   (1060+ words) The Architect’s Newspaper Works from Isamu Noguchi’s MacDougal Alley studio period, 1940s. (Nicholas Knight) In 1951, Isamu Noguchi proposed a playground for a sliver of land just south of the United Nations campus, next to FDR Drive on the East Side of…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (425+ words) The architects chose to expose the collisions of previous structures. (Nicholas Calcott) The ethereal interior, divided into five spaces, is the work of Peterson Rich Office (PRO), a Brooklyn firm with a growing portfolio of cultural commissions, from the Shepard…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (258+ words) Frank Gehry, who passed away last December at age 96, set an early standard for the starchitect and left behind one of the most comprehensive visual repertoires of millennial vision. The maestro of postmodernist construction’s soaring output will be the subject…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (693+ words) At Citygroup, a new exhibition excavates the legacy of New York City’s cooperative housing architect Herman Jessor The Architect’s Newspaper Contemporary visions for decommodified, collectively managed housing in the United States don’t hold a candle to what one architect and…...

3+ mon, 4+ week ago   (365+ words) origo, an earthy ovular pavilion, has been installed in the Barbican’s Sculpture Court in London. It marks the first artwork to display in the court in 10 years. With the artwork, Colombian artist Delcy Morelos investigates indigenous South American materiality in…...

4+ mon, 6+ day ago   (391+ words) The Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art is embarking on an ambitious $100 million project to renovate and expand its 15-acre campus into a 325-acre public preserve. At the center of this plan is a new museum building designed by Kengo Kuma…...