James Corner Field Operations is revamping Chicago’s touristy Navy Pier. Phase one of the redevelopment is scheduled for completion by summer 2015, in time for the pier’s centennial the following year. From an economic standpoint, Chicago’s Navy Pier is already a success. With amenities like a 150-foot ferris wheel, a children’s museum, a Shakespeare theater, and …Continue Reading
Archivo de la etiqueta: New Projects
A Garage Covered In Vegetation Becomes A Green Alpine Retreat
Believe it or not, some of modern architecture’s most storied white boxes were never meant to remain so white. While Adolf Loos was skirmishing with Vienna’s Secessionist architects and descrying the whipping, stylized vines of their nature-inspired ornament, his 1930 Villa Müller in Brno was designed to be partially concealed in actual, living vines. Like …Continue Reading
Hong Kong’s Divine White Chapel By The Sea
All images courtesy of Danny Cheng Interiors Hong Kong architect Danny Cheng’s new project for Discovery Bay rises from an enveloping reflecting pool like a mirage. The White Chapel deserves its name, because in order to give a reading of unity and purity, the designers made every single surface of the chapel’s interior a brilliant …Continue Reading
This Abandoned Cement Silo Might Be The Perfect Spot For Indoor Skydiving
We’ve probably all seen a video or two of some adrenaline junkies base-jumping off the tops of skyscrapers and other monuments (and if not, here’s one to start you off). Part of the allure of such spectacles is the fact that these landmarks were never intended to be sites for such high-flying stunts; one can …Continue Reading
Green In Color Only? A Power Plant Camouflaged As A Topiary
Architects and aesthetes just love to disguise ugly infrastructure. We’ve seen so many kinds of proposals, from electrical substations made over with tiles and mirrors to highways trellised with ivy. Now the folks at AZPA want to dress up a coal-fired power plant outside Hamburg as a resplendent green “mountain” surrounded by new public park. …Continue Reading
Sustainable Futurism, Or Just A Really Weird House?
All images by FIXd Architecture The problem with sustainable design? Sometimes the architects can forget the “design” part, letting the means for achieving sustainability define a project’s aesthetics. Since the late 1960s, this kind of structural and technical exhibitionism has become a widely practiced metaphor for the building-as-metabolic-system. The not-so-hidden agenda, of course, is to …Continue Reading
Snøhetta Unveils Revised Renderings For San Francisco’s Warriors Arena
This week Snøhetta and AECOM released new renderings for the Golden State Warriors arena, a 740,000-square-foot sports complex that will rise on Piers 30–32 on the San Francisco waterfront. Last time we checked in, the arena—which is slated to open in 2017—was but a distant gleaming orb, with few public details beyond the promise of
This Asterisk-Shaped Winery Is F**king Awesome
We are all familiar with the asterisk, that adorable star-shaped glyph used to denote the omission of information, be it the missing vowels of your typed expletive or some less favorable fine print, banished to the peripheries of an ad campaign. Formally speaking, however, the multi-pronged symbol can be a very inclusive form, gathering several