Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, designed by Alvaro Siza and Eduardo Souto de Moura in Kensington Gardens (London), was inaugurated on the 1st of July. Images of the opening > flickr.com (source > archinect.com) Images of the construction site > 0lll.com
An interview with Catalan architect Carlos Ferrater, talking about his relation with history and country, and explaining his design approach, marked by the constant dialogue between Artificial and Natural [floornature].
Richard Meier designed a totally glazed luxurious building, called the “Beach House“, that features all the peculiarities of his work [Clarín].
Brazil > In 1984 a national design competition (whose panel was headed by Oscar Niemeyer) took place for a Memorial dedicated to Getulio Vargas in Rio de Janeiro. The winner was architect Henock de Almeida, and twenty years later, on 24th August 2004, the work was inaugurated to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of Vargas death […]
Images of two works, both designed in Japan by Sejima+Ryue Nishizawa (SANAA): the Onishi Public Hall [source > dezain.net] and the Kanazawa 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art [0lll.com]
Puerta America Hotel opened its doors: customers inclined to pay 171,20 euros per night, will be granted to choose their rooms among the ones designed by personalities, such as Jean Nouvel, Isozaki, Gluckman, Foster or Zaha Hadid [abc.es].
Jean Nouvel‘s expansion of Reina Sofia Museum will be officially inaugurated in September 2005. Morover, museum renovation will be accomplished after the restoration of Sabatini Building: according to expectations, the 30 milion euros extimated works should end in 2010 [el mundo].Images of the expansion > skyscrapercity.com
Finnish architects Rainer Mahlamaki and Ilmari Lahdelma won the competition for the new Jewish Museum in Warsaw [BBC / CNN]. source > archinect
The World Monuments Fund published the list of 100 most endangered sites for 2006 [wmf.org].
Unveiled new Freedom Tower design, after revisions due to security reasons [el mundo / CNN / Improvised Schema]. Images gallery > New York Newsday / Yahoo News (AP) More > renewnyc.com
Images of SUR, an installation designed by Hernan Diaz Alonso and situated in the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center. Graduated from National University of Rosario in Argentina, Master in Advanced Architectural Design at Columbia University in New York, Alonso now lives in Los Angeles [archinect].
The opening of Richard Meier‘s Ara Pacis Museum (4,250 sqm) in Rome is scheduled for april 2006 [arcspace].
