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Reinventing cultural architecture: inside OPEN’s revolutionary buildings

The Spaces

OPEN was founded during the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympic Games by architects Li Hu and Huang Wenjing. Rooftop/aerial view of the UCCA Dune Art Museum by OPEN. UCCA Dune Art Museum by OPEN. This cache of buildings has helped reshape China’s cultural landscape – and re-contextualise its reputation as an ‘architectural playground’.

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Daniel Arsham creates Divided Layers gateway at Milan design week

Deezen

Divided Layers draws on the "stacking and marrying" construction process that was used to make the original sink, and was also informed by a drawing Arsham sketched over 10 years ago, according to the designer. Arsham is a New York City-based artist and designer who co-founded architecture studio Snarkitecture with Alex Mustonen in 2008.

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The Architect's Questionnaire: Daniel Toole

Portland Architecture

Toole received his bachelor’s of architecture degree from the University of Oregon in 2008, and his master’s in urban design from the Harvard Graduate School of Design in 2016, with a year-long research grant at the Technical University of Berlin in between. I love the art and design of Isamu Noguchi.

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Reincarnating Gotham City: The Ever-Changing Architecture of Batman

Architizer

Across these various representations, the architectural influence of Gotham is most commonly a mix and match of Art Deco, Art Nouveau and Gothic architecture, honing in on the elaborate spires, pointed arches, and ornate decoration often featured throughout the city and piercing the skyline.

Cities 90
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Frank Gehry brought global attention to deconstructivism

Deezen

He was one of seven architects that was featured in the seminal Deconstructivist Architecture exhibition at New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in 1988. In 1967, he established his own office, Frank Gehry and Associates (now Gehry Partners ), during the heyday of California's Funk art movement. Photo by Mmenorris.

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The Sponge Evangelist

Landscape Architecture Magazine

Kongjian Yu, FASLA, sketches the concept for Chinatown Park in Boston in 2003. Jury chair Elizabeth Mossop, ASLA, had taken an interest in Yu’s work since she participated in a panel to review proposals for the public space of the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics. That’s why I call landscape the art of survival.

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Capital Ctr. Build-Out, cont.

Architecture Here and There

The architect for GTECH actually plopped a sketch of his building onto a poster-sized copy of Richard Benjamin’s lovely photograph. Miesian” is the term of art for the flood of buildings (by architects known as “Mieslings”) that arose along Manhattan’s Park Avenue and, alas, elsewhere. The montage looked ridiculous, even blasphemous.