Like a lot of events obscured by the pandemic of 2020, the 90th anniversary of the opening of the Chrysler Building slipped right by most of us. The 77-story Art Deco masterpiece by architect William Van Allen opened on May 27, 1930. For a brief 11 months, it was the tallest building in the world, […]
Opéra, Barovier&Toso‘s newest lighting collection was inspired by the Opéra Garnier in Paris. While it shows a sleeker, more modern edge to the historic brand’s refined and romantic aesthetic, designer Philippe Nigro used the company’s century-old “rostrato” technique...
Tomorrow, the Venice Architecture Biennale opens – as the first major public architecture event since the pandemic struck more than a year ago. When it does, Dutch artist Rene Rietmeyer will be displaying the works of hundreds of artists and architects across the city. Rietmeyer was invited to participate...
Architect Greg Faulkner knows the real deal when he sees it. Take, for example, a spreading white oak tree growing up around a 1950s midcentury modern on an eight-acre site in Orinda, Calif. That home wasn’t destined to stay. There were issues, so it was slowly dismantled, its parts donated to worthy...
True fact: Bob Dylan turns 80 next week – so it’s time to review progress on the center that soon will house his archives in Tulsa, Okla. Olson Kundig Architects won the competition to design the center back in 2018. Since then, the project moved three times before finally settling into 20,000-square-feet...
Serena Dugan draws on both sides of her brain when she designs her textiles. She earned a degree in psychology from Wake Forest University in 1994, then set her sights on a master’s in clinical psychology. But it was not to be. As John Lennon once pointed out, “Life is what happens to you while […]
Trained at Cornell and M.I.T., followed by an stretch in I. M. Pei’s office, architect Hiroshi Okamoto split off a decade ago to set up OLI Architecture. One of the firm’s first projects was the Mu Xin Art Museum in the historic water town of Wuzhen, in China’s northern Zhejiang Province. It’s...
Olson Kundig announced today that the new Bob Dylan Center will open in Tulsa, Okla. on May 10, 2022, welcoming visitors from around the world to access and interact with the cultural treasures found in The Bob Dylan Archive®. Led by design principal Alan Maskin, Olson Kundig is architect and exhibit...
Hundreds of books have been written about Frank Lloyd Wright – the architect himself penned 18 – but few pack as much punch as the newest tome by Aaron Betsky and Gideon Fink Shapiro. 50 Lessons to Learn from Frank Lloyd Wright is about the architecture, not the man or his personal life. It’s illuminated...
One of the great late-1920s California hotels has found new life – as apartments aimed at college students and young professionals. The Tioga Hotel, the largest building in Merced, Calif., was designed in 1928 as a midway point for city-dwellers traveling from Los Angeles and the Bay Area for a visit...
