Places Archives | Page 253 of 260 | Architects + Artisans

On May 4, 2011, Reykjavík’s new Concert Hall and Conference Centre, designed by Henning Larsen Architects, with acoustics by Artec Consultants and a facade by Olafur Eliasson, will open with a concert by the Icelandic Symphony Orchestra.

July 8, 2010 by Mike Welton

In Iceland, Henning Larsen Takes a Bold Move Forward

When their parents moved to Pasadena for health reasons in 1893, the brothers followed, setting up their architecture practice a year later.

July 7, 2010 by Mike Welton

Greene & Greene: Taking the Edge Out of Arts & Crafts

“I like the way the house opens up the outside,” says Tom Kundig, design principal at the Seattle firm.

July 6, 2010 by Mike Welton

In Idaho, Chicken Point Cabin Is Opening Up to the Outside

“There was a platform there to see the view, and while it functioned well with the landscape, it completely contradicted his view,” Gartner says.

June 29, 2010 by Mike Welton

In Costa Rica, SPG Architects Twist a Home to the Views

The firm rarely fails to help us think about where we are, but more important, where we’re heading.

June 24, 2010 by Mike Welton

SO-IL Designs a POLE DANCE for MoMA’s P.S.1 in NY

He’d been working as a barber’s apprentice in Atlanta.

June 22, 2010 by Mike Welton

From Artist Cedric Smith, Colors to Grab Your Attention

It features an essay by artist and agricultural activist Fritz Haeg, who tagged it all “a handsome piece of pragmatic poetry.”

June 21, 2010 by Mike Welton

Interviews and Essays in ‘Above the Pavement – the Farm’

With dual degrees – one in architecture and another in city planning – he’s taught at Yale University for the past 43 years.

June 18, 2010 by Mike Welton

From Norton, Alex Garvin’s Definitive Book on Public Parks

In 2008, six weeks before the collapse of Lehman Brothers, Jing Liu, a native of China, and her Dutch partner Florian Idenburg set up their architecture practice in New York.

June 17, 2010 by Mike Welton

SO-IL Designs a Residence for Modernist Ivan Chermayeff

The chair of the illustration program at Parsons The New School for Design, former art director for The New York Times op-ed page and illustrator for Rolling Stone and New York, he’s just published a tongue-in-cheek update of the classic fable.

June 16, 2010 by Mike Welton

‘Three Little Pigs’ Is Architecture for the Young at Heart