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MuseumLab opens in ruins of lightning-struck Pittsburgh library

May 6, 2020 Eleanor Gibson 0

MuseumLab by Koning Eizenberg Architecture

US firm Koning Eizenberg Architecture left worn-looking ornate walls, brickwork and columns inside this museum for children in Pittsburgh, which occupies a historic library that was struck by lightning. Koning Eizenberg Architecture (KEA) designed the transformation of the damaged library into MuseumLab for the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh. It forms an extension of its campus

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Preview The Met’s postponed About Time: Fashion and Duration exhibition

May 5, 2020 Eleanor Gibson 0

New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art has created a virtual version of its About Time: Fashion and Duration exhibition, which has been postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic. The Met’s Costume Institute has made a short Youtube video of the museum’s annual major spring exhibition to coincide with its original opening date this week. The

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Photography reveals LACMA demolition during coronavirus pandemic

May 4, 2020 Eleanor Gibson 0

Photography reveals demolition of LACMA buildings during coronavirus pandemic

This exclusive photography by Monica Nouwens captures the razing of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, as part of controversial plans to redevelop the site with a Peter Zumthor-designed building. LACMA’s demolition continued as part of essential activities during the city’s coronavirus lockdown as announced last month. The photos by locally based Nouwens capture construction workers

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Quito apartment A Forest House has a mini indoor pool

May 2, 2020 Eleanor Gibson 0

Concrete columns draped in greenery, steel beams filled with books and a small pool feature in this apartment in Quito, Ecuador that local architect Aquiles Jarrín has overhauled for a family of three and their dog. Jarrín designed the project, called A Forest House, for an apartment located in a 1970s building in the city’s

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Ludwig Godefroy references sacred Mayan roads with Casa Mérida

May 1, 2020 Eleanor Gibson 0

Architect Ludwig Godefroy has designed this fragmented concrete house, which spans an 80-metre-long site in Mérida, Mexico, to draw on Mayan traditions and culture. The Mexico City architect completed the house in Mérida, the largest city in Yucatán state, which is regarded as the capital of the indigenous Mayan civilisation. The architect sought to reference

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“This is not a hospital” says architect behind conversion of McCormick Place

April 27, 2020 Eleanor Gibson 0

McCormick Place convention centre in Chicago

Convention centres that have been rapidly turned into facilities for coronavirus patients should not be called hospitals, says Doug King, the healthcare principal of Stantec, which has overseen the transformation of Chicago’s McCormick Place. Stantec worked with contractor Walsh Construction to turn three halls in the centre into an alternative care facility with 3000 beds.

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Alejandro Sticotti’s holiday home in Uruguay teams weathered wood and textured concrete

April 25, 2020 Eleanor Gibson 0

Argentinean architect Alejandro Sticotti has elevated a wood-clad box above the glazed kitchen and dining room of his family’s holiday home on the coast of Uruguay. Sticotti designed the house in Le Pedrera, a village and resort on the Atlantic Coast in Uruguay’s department of Rocha. Located a five-minute walk from the beach, the house

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Serpentine Pavilion postponed to 2021 due to coronavirus

April 24, 2020 Eleanor Gibson 0

Serpentine Pavilion 2020 by Counterspace

The opening of this year’s Serpentine Pavilion, designed by South African architecture studio Counterspace, has been postponed until 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic. Counterspace’s structure was due to be open on 11 June 2020, marking the Serpentine Gallery’s 20th summer pavilion. The Serpentine Gallery announced today that it will postpone the opening until next

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“We have a tendency to look at representations of new cities as a kind of pornography” said Michael Sorkin

April 24, 2020 Eleanor Gibson 0

Ahead of Monday’s collaboration between Virtual Design Festival and reSITE , the Prague urbanism conference has shared a video of a lecture by Michael Sorkin, in which the late architect and critic quashes the lure of glamorised future city proposals. In the talk, which took place at the 2015 reSITE conference, Sorkin highlighted problems of

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Five of the best houses in Michigan on Dezeen

April 21, 2020 Eleanor Gibson 0

Next up our series of roundups of houses from each US state we’re looking at Michigan, where residences are designed to make the most of its abundance of shoreline. Michigan Lake House by Desai Chia Architects A striking, blackened timber roof cantilevers over an outdoor patio for this lake house Desai Chia Architects completed in

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