The New York branch of architecture firm OMA will create an extension to the city’s New Museum next to its SANAA-designed home. The expansion will double the size of the contemporary art museum, which opened in its current location in Bowery 20 years ago. Taking the place of an adjacent property bought by the museum
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A major new concert venue replacing the Museum of London is to be designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro, the New York architecture firm behind the acclaimed High Line park. Diller Scofidio + Renfro is working with British firm Sheppard Robson on the Centre for Music, which will offer a permanent home to London Symphony Orchestra, which is currently based
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Foster + Partners has begun construction on a supertall skyscraper in Toronto’s business district, which is set to become the country’s tallest building at 306 metres. It will be Canada’s tallest inhabitable building and it’s second-tallest man-made structure after the CN Tower, a 553-metre communications and observation tower. At 85 storeys and over 300 metres in height, the building will
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Foster + Partners has begun construction on a supertall skyscraper in Toronto’s business district, which is set to become the country’s tallest building at 306 metres. It will be Canada’s tallest inhabitable building and it’s second-tallest man-made structure after the CN Tower, a 553-metre communications and observation tower. At 85 storeys and over 300 metres in height, the building will
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“Shared space” streets have been called into question after a taxi ploughed into museum-goers on Exhibition Road, a broad boulevard shared by pedestrians and vehicles in London’s South Kensington. The driver of a Toyota Prius veered into a crowd of visitors in South Kensington’s semi-pedestrianised road on Saturday 7 October, injuring 11 people. Nine of the
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Interior architecture practice JKMM has won Finland’s most important architecture prize for its renovation of the Aalto University campus library in Otaniemi. JKMM wins the Finlandia Prize for Architecture 2017 for its overhaul of the Harald Herlin Learning Centre, which was originally designed by the Finnish modernist architect Alvar Aalto, along with several other buildings on the campus, and
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Marks Barfield Architects co-founder David Marks has died aged 64, following a long illness. Marks, who alongside wife and partner Julia Barfield was the developer and architect of the London Eye, passed away on 6 October 2017. He leaves behind a legacy of projects that also includes the Treetop Walkway at Kew Gardens and the i360 observation
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Marks Barfield Architects co-founder David Marks has died aged 64, following a long illness. Marks, who alongside wife and partner Julia Barfield was the developer and architect of the London Eye, passed away on 6 October 2017. He leaves behind a legacy of projects that also includes the Treetop Walkway at Kew Gardens and the i360 observation
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A filigree-patterned supertall tower under construction in Downtown Manhattan is set become the area’s second tallest skyscraper behind One World Trade Center. The 45 Broad Street residential skyscraper is designed by New York architecture firm CetraRuddy and planned to reach 1,115 feet (340 metres) once it tops out. It will overtake all of the high
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British architect David Chipperfield is to carry out major restoration works on the Procuratie Vecchie on Venice’s Piazza San Marco, which will see the palace opened to the public for the first time in 500 years. Due to be completed in 2020, the project will be a multi-million pound undertaking for its owners, the Italian insurance company the
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