French architect Jean Nouvel presented his design for an Abu Dhabi museum, made up of a cluster of low buildings under a dome, to house artworks on loan from France.
Nouvel, the architect of the Quai Branly museum of primitive art in Paris, said his design was inspired by the contrast between the desert and the [...]
Art isn’t easy. Imagine the burden for a visionary architect, who doesn’t merely have to snare the commission and make the beauty. Then people dare to live in one of his objects, name it after themselves and expect the roof not to leak.
We ponder a bit of that almost superhuman dilemma in “Frank’s Home,” [...]
On paper, it looks like the beginning of a joke: What do Prague, Barcelona and Dusseldorf have in common with Lehi?
The answer is legendary architect Frank Gehry.
And while jaws may drop at an announcement that Gehry will soon be designing an urban-inspired community in northern Lehi, it’s definitely serious [...]
Interior Design magazine tapped Louisville’s 21C Museum Hotel for its Best of Year 2006 award last week with its annual event at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City.
The hotel, which is based on the concept of Louisvillians Laura Lee Brown and Steve Wilson for an in-hotel museum of contemporary art, is featured in this [...]
They came, they watched, they listened, they noshed, and for the most part, they liked.
The occasion was the beginning of what promises to be a full-court press by UC officials and boosters as they seek funds and approval for “a place where ideas run free and wild,†a $120 million complex in the heart of [...]
IT won’t take long for readers of “The Fellowship,” an ambitious new study of Frank Lloyd Wright by Roger Friedland and Harold Zellman, to realize that the book is no ordinary exercise in architectural history. Maybe it will happen on Page 8, when the authors describe the teenage Wright daydreaming about sex, drifting into his [...]
The Miami Art Museum will soon take a major step in creating its new bayfront building — selecting an architect — in unusual fashion: It will do so in public. With public participation.
Call it Starchitect Search.
After months of research, and a lightning June tour that took him and museum trustees to 26 buildings in 13 [...]
Control board. Tax hike. Brain drain. It can be hard sometimes not to focus on the negative things happening in Western New York.
With so much going awry in the dawn of the 21st century, it’s easy to forget how vital a cog in the nation Buffalo was 100 years ago. A locally produced special airing [...]
As a child, he made cities and freeways with his grandmother, preferring to use leftover pieces of wood instead of conventional building blocks.
He flunked an introductory course in architecture, and one of his first instructors — perhaps motivated by anti-Semitism — strongly urged him to try something else in life.
Fortunately for the world, Frank [...]
MORE than 40 years after he drowned off a remote beach in the south of France, Le Corbusier remains a transcendent force. Even if some blame him for the modern city’s greatest sins, from the steamrolling of historical neighborhoods to a stultifying emphasis on function, he is indisputably the most influential architect of the past [...]
Contemporary designs join unusual materials in 6 distinctive motifs
What does an internationally renowned architect do for a challenge? He goes small-scale.
That’s why Frank Gehry has joined with Tiffany & Co. to create a jewelry collection.
The 77-year-old L.A. resident considers jewelry to be a very personal expression of style and personality. The line also helps him [...]
Singapore’s CapitaLand and its partner Kzerner International have roped in celebrated architect Frank Gehry to help in their bid for Singapore’s second integrated resort.
Mr Gehry, who will serve as their principal architect and designer, is the man who created the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain.
Other parties expressing interest in the Sentosa project include Eighth Wonder, [...]