Michael Sorkin is an architect, a teacher, a critic, a sharp observer of international urban social trends and one of the most charismatic personalities in the panorama of contemporary architecture. During the interview he shows his point of view regarding the relationship between urbanism and architecture, the infrastructures project, and the Chinese construction boom [floornature].
Remodeled Faculty of Architecture, Art and Design, at Diego Portales University, features a clean and contemporary image. The research carried on by architect Ricardo Abuauad has been focused on achieving bright spaces, to help ongoing activities to show through [el mercurio].
Lower Manhattan Development Corporation (LMDC) unveiled the project designed by the Norwegian firm Snøhetta for a Cultural Center in WTC area [lowermanhattan.info].Images >>>
Views from the construction site of Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2005, designed in Kensington Gardens (London) by Alvaro Siza and Eduardo Souto de Moura [0lll.com].fonte > dezain.net
A lot of information about Jean Nouvel’s Agbar Tower in Barcelona (from the official site) > torreagbar.com
Multimillionaire Donald Trump unveiled today his proposal to rebuild Twin Towers “as they were, but a little taller and very much stronger” [CNN / el mundo / Univision].
Images of 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art designed by Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa (SANAA) in Kanazawa (Japan) [0lll.com].
Oscar Niemeyer unveiled the design of the sculpture that will be inaugurated in Paris, near to the Seine river bank, on the 14th of July – French National Day. The 8 metres wide and 4 metres high work, that’s part of the Year of Brazil in France, represents a hand extended in the air, while […]
Central Building (that is to say administrative centre) of BMW factory in Leipzig, designed by Zaha Hadid [Wallpaper*].
Santiago (Chile) > Catholic University of Chile’s School of Medicine, designed by Alejandro Aravena Mori and Fernando Pérez. The prism-like School of Medicine, carefully inserted in the adjoining campus of the Catholic University of Chile, features many different enclosures, following the different treatment of each façade according to its surroundings and orientation [Summa+].
New York Times interview with 97 years old Oscar Niemeyer [NYT]. Images gallery >>>
Five years ago Herzog & de Meuron‘s Tate Modern Gallery, simply called “the Tate” in spoken language, was inaugurated in London: in such a short time it became one of the main UK attractions, with its four million visitors per year [BBC].
