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The Blanton Debuted a Flowery Renovation. Will the Austin Museum Scene Bloom With It?
16 May 2023 21:41 GMT
It stands to reason that residents should expect both pluses and minuses from Austin’s transformation into a bigger, richer, and more expensive city. For the city’s art community, the downsides of the recent boom have been painfully noted, from the …
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Sasaki transforms Boston’s City Hall Plaza from a “vast wasteland” into a friendly, accessible landscape
11 Apr 2023 23:11 GMT
When Boston’s controversial Brutalist concrete city hall opened in 1968, New York Times architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable called the barren brick plaza in front of it “one of the great urban spaces of the 20th century.” She gushed further: “With the …
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Herzog & de Meuron reveals design for mass-timber mixed-use development in Austin
11 Aug 2022 03:02 GMT
Herzog & de Meuron has pulled back the curtain on Sixth & Blanco, a mixed-use infill development encompassing an entire city block in Austin’s historic Clarksville neighborhood, just west of the Texas capital city’s downtown core.
The low-slung …
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Wexner Center for the Arts is "a building that is waiting to be a building"
16 May 2022 13:16 GMT
As we continue our deconstructivist series, we look at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Ohio by architect and theorist Peter Eisenman, which he claims "has nothing to do with deconstruction or deconstructivism."
Designed by New York-based …
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Michael McKinnell, 84, Dies; Architect of a Monumental City Hall
04 Apr 2020 22:07 GMT
This obituary is part of a series about people who have died in the coronavirus pandemic. Read about others here.
Michael McKinnell, whose heroically sculptural and democratically open design for Boston City Hall catalyzed the city’s urban revival in the …
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