LONDON.- The Photographers’ Gallery is creating an iconic new building in the heart of London’s West End. On 19 September 2010, the Gallery will close its doors to the public for a year while we embark on our ambitious development of the buil…
A Floating Pavilion for Croatia at the Venice Architecture Biennale
VENICE.- A group of leading Croatian architects, responsible for the strong presence of Croatian architecture on the international scene in recent years, has accepted a task to design a floating exhibition structure to present Croatian art and architec…
A Floating Pavilion for Croatia at the Venice Architecture Biennale
VENICE.- A group of leading Croatian architects, responsible for the strong presence of Croatian architecture on the international scene in recent years, has accepted a task to design a floating exhibition structure to present Croatian art and architec…
Internationally Acclaimed Architects and Artists at the Venice Architecture Biennale
VENICE.- The Venice Biennale, which has its offices in Ca’ Giustinian (San Marco, 1364/A), has for over a century been one of the most prestigious cultural institutions in the world. Ever since its foundation in 1895, it has been in the avant-garde, pr…
LE BAL: A New Venue for the Document-Image to Open in Paris
PARIS.- Chez Isis was a haven of drinking and dancing in the Roaring Twenties. Customers came in droves, eager to let their hair down in its ground-floor restaurant, basement dance floor and upstairs in its “no questions asked” hotel. After t…
9/11 Museum Going Up in New York City Offers Raw Experience
NEW YORK (AP).- The Sept. 11 museum is taking shape 70 feet below ground, a cavernous space that provides an emotionally raw journey and ends at bedrock where huge surviving remnants and spacial voids reveal the scale of the devastation of what once wa…
Portugal Presents Its Architects for La Biennale di Venezia
VENICE.- The duo Manuel and Francisco Aires Mateus, Ricardo Bak Gordon, João Luís Carrilho da Graça and Álvaro Siza Vieira are the architects representing Portugal at the 12th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia. Th…
Portugal Presents Its Architects for La Biennale di Venezia
VENICE.- The duo Manuel and Francisco Aires Mateus, Ricardo Bak Gordon, João Luís Carrilho da Graça and Álvaro Siza Vieira are the architects representing Portugal at the 12th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia. Th…
Ikon.5 architects Selected for International Architecture Award by Chicago Athenaeum
PRINCETON, NJ.- ikon.5 architects of Princeton, NJ have been awarded The International Architecture Award for 2010 by the Chicago Athenaeum: The Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies. Th…
Lehmann Maupin Gallery’s Do Ho Suh Presents "Blueprint" at 2010 Architecture Exhibit of Venice Biennale
NEW YORK, NY.- Do Ho Suh and Suh Architects announced their joint collaboration ‘Blueprint’ in the 12th International Architecture Exhibition for the Venice Biennale. Invited by Kazuyo Sejima to participate in the main exhibition for the 2010 Venice Ar…