BROOKLYN, NY.- The Brooklyn Museum has completed an extensive renovation of its historic Great Hall at the center of its ground floor and has reclaimed additional space for a new gallery. This project, which is the initial phase of a major redesign of …
Historic, Three-Year Preservation Project Restores The Landmark Façade of the Library
NEW YORK, NY.- The New York Public Library has just completed a three-year, $50 million restoration and preservation of the landmark Stephen A. Schwarzman Building on 42nd Street, which has stood as an impressive symbol of opportunity and access for th…
Historic, Three-Year Preservation Project Restores The Landmark Façade of the Library On 42nd Street
NEW YORK, NY.- The New York Public Library has just completed a three-year, $50 million restoration and preservation of the landmark Stephen A. Schwarzman Building on 42nd Street, which has stood as an impressive symbol of opportunity and access for th…
Memorial at Site of Auschwitz Oven Builders
ERFURT, GERMANY (AP).- A new memorial is opening in Germany that examines the role played by educated professionals such as the engineers and architects who created the crematoria ovens for Auschwitz to help carry out the Holocaust. The exhibit is hous…
Restoration Of The Much Loved Waterloo Poem by Sue Hubbard
LONDON.- After a year-long campaign London’s largest public art poem, which was painted over last autumn by Network Rail, is about to be restored in the underpass at Waterloo that leads to the IMAX cinema. Ten years ago, as part of the renovation …
‘An Open Mind’ is the Title of the New Jubilee Publication by the Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein
VADUZ.- “An Open Mind” is the title of the new jubilee publication by the Kunstmuseum Liechten-stein summarising the history of the institution and the exhibitions and events it has organ-ised in the first ten years of its existence. The pres…
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart Pays Tribute to Innovative Architect James Stirling with Exhibition
STUTTGART.- James Frazer Stirling (1926–1992) is considered one of the most influential and innovative architects of the second half of the twentieth century. With a selection of models and plans as well as theoretical writings and hitherto unpubl…
Valencian Institute for Modern Art Dedicates Exhibition to Paolo Riani: A World of Architects
VALENCIA.- The exhibition dedicated by the IVAM to Paolo Riani comprises, apart from photographs taken all over Europe, America, Japan, Russia and Arabia, a selection of architectonic projects and collections of objects (miniature aeroplanes made of wo…
Robert A. M. Stern Named 2011 Driehaus Prize for Classical Architecture Laureate
NOTRE DAME, IN.- Robert A. M. Stern, whose influential designs have revitalized traditional architecture, has been named the 2011 recipient of the Richard H. Driehaus Prize for Classical Architecture. Stern will receive $200,000 and a model of the Chor…
Robert A. M. Stern Named 2011 Driehaus Prize for Classical Architecture Laureate
NOTRE DAME, IN.- Robert A. M. Stern, whose influential designs have revitalized traditional architecture, has been named the 2011 recipient of the Richard H. Driehaus Prize for Classical Architecture. Stern will receive $200,000 and a model of the Chor…