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Holy Cross’s New Prior Performing Arts Center Overflows With Cultural Energy
Clad in varied, twisting surfaces and weaving together a wide variety of uses, Diller Scofidio + Renfro's innovative arts center promotes community, flexibility, and vibrancy.
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Profiles
Marina Tabassum Builds Resilience in Precarious Contexts
Her Bangladesh-based architectural practice designs with and for the communities most affected by climate change.
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Architecture Eats Itself at the 2022 Tallinn Architecture Biennale
The 6th edition of the biennale explores architecture’s relationship to food as well as cycles of decay and regrowth.
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A Dramatic Sports Complex Takes Form in France
Espace Mayenne’s curvilinear geometry belies a sports and arts venue that shapeshifts to fill a new community’s needs.
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Hacker Architects Brings a Brutalist Public Library into the 21st Century
In Salem, Oregon, designers and residents came together to save the Salem Public Library, a concrete and glass structure designed by George Rockrise and Donald Richardson in 1970.
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Leers Weinzapfel Associates Renovates a Space Age Library in Boston
Built in 1961, the Roslindale branch of the Boston Public Library just received a $11.7 million renovation by the Boston-based firm.
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Profiles
Who Was Günther Domenig, the Unknown Deconstructivist?
Domenig was one of Austria’s most radical architects and a major influence on many of architecture’s leading lights but remains widely unknown. A new exhibition aims to change that.
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Revealing How Iconic L.A. Architect Paul R. Williams Thrived in Nevada
An exhibition of photographs by Janna Ireland captures his Nevada work's artistry, innovative spirit, and accessibility to a broader clientele.
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The Armory Show Addresses “Fair Fatigue” with a Flexible Layout by Frederick Fisher and Partners
On view September 9 through 11 at Manhattan’s Javits Center, the art fair takes cues from the city to help visitors get around intuitively.
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Memory on Every Corner: L.A.’s First Street Corridor
While Boulevards like Hollywood, Sunset, and Wilshire get more attention, Los Angeles' First Street contains an incredible—and dizzyingly complex—history.
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Profiles
Dutch Designer Marjan van Aubel’s Solar Revolution
Through a new biennale, an encyclopedic book, and a traveling public installation she aims to reveal the full potential of solar design.
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Viewpoints
A New Book Chronicles the Turbulent History of Architectural Complexity
Joseph Giovannini's Architecture Unbound: A Century of the Disruptive Avant-Garde is a monumental exploration of non-conformist design.
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At Europe’s Oldest Design Biennial, A Socially Committed Approach to Design Stands the Test of Time
The latest edition of the Ljubljana Biennial of Industrial Design in Slovenia aims to direct resources and attention towards local action.
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Projects
A Brooklyn Fitness Center Aims to Support a Community Threatened by Gentrification
The Major R. Owens Health Center, part of the controversial Bedford-Union Armory redevelopment, is attuned to myriad community needs, but under for-profit management, it can only go so far.
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The Future of American Design Is Reinvention, Reuse, and Renewal
The July/August issue of Metropolis celebrates the American tradition of confronting history with creativity.
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Profiles
Tosin Oshinowo Will Celebrate a Culture of Reuse at the 2023 Sharjah Architecture Triennial
Focused on solutions shaped by conditions of scarcity, the curator of the Triennial’s second edition embraces impermanence and repair.
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Projects
In Bright Pink, A Temporary Roof Structure Transforms a Rotterdam Museum
MVRDV's Podium, a short-lived but proudly loud crown atop the Het Nieuwe Instituut, is just one of the Dutch firm's many forays into bold roof-itecture.
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Three Museums Bring Art Outdoors
In the age of social distancing and social media, outdoor art centers are experiencing a boon.
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Re-Imagined Municipal Museum of Weert, Netherlands Blends Old and New
With a new golden skin, the Museum W re-opens with an exhibition by designer Job Smeets.
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In Taiyuan, a Coal Mine Is Transformed into a Botanical Garden
With one of the world’s largest timber lattice structures, Delugan Meissl Associated Architects reinterprets traditional Chinese elements for this 450-acre re-naturalization project.