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Richard Meier retires three years after sexual harassment allegations as studio rebrands

June 28, 2021 India Block 0

Pritzker Architecture Prize-winning architect Richard Meier has retired, three years after accusations of sexual harassment were made against him. Richard Meier & Partners Architects, which he founded in 1963, has been renamed Meier Partners. But the 86-year-old architect will still be available to consult with clients upon request, his studio confirmed in an announcement on

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Weiss/Manfredi renovates and expands Florida’s storm-damaged Baker Museum

June 25, 2021 India Block 0

The Baker Museum in Naples, Florida, has been revamped by New York architecture firm Weiss/Manfredi following significant damage during Hurricane Irma. Part of South Florida’s Artis—Naples arts centre, the museum displays a collection of modern and contemporary art. It was badly damaged when it was flooded by the category three hurricane in 2017 and forced to

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Apple opens store by Foster + Partners in Los Angeles’ historic Tower Theatre

June 23, 2021 India Block 0

Apple Tower Theatre is a new Apple Store designed by UK studio Foster + Partners inside an abandoned 1920s movie theatre in Downtown Los Angeles. Foster + Partners worked with the technology company to renovate the historic building, which was originally designed by American architect S Charles Lee in 1927 in the baroque revival style. At

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SOM reveals plan to add curving glass canopy to Chicago metro station

June 22, 2021 India Block 0

Global architecture firm Skidmore, Owings and Merril has unveiled its redesign for the State/Lake Station in downtown Chicago. Skidmore, Owings and Merril (SOM) is working with construction engineers TranSystems to revamp the station on Chicago’s elevated train line, which is nicknamed the L. The project is being undertaken by the City of Chicago, Chicago Department

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Rediscovered Mies van der Rohe design being built at Indiana University

June 21, 2021 India Block 0

A building designed by Mies van der Rohe nearly 70 years ago is under construction at Indiana University in the USA, over 50 years after the 20th-century architect’s death. The steel and glass two-storey building is being built as part of the Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design on the university’s Bloomington campus. Architecture firm

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Kohn Pedersen Fox adding glass elevator to supertall skyscraper in New York

June 17, 2021 India Block 0

Kohn Pedersen Fox adds glass elevator to supertall One Vanderbilt in New York

Glass elevators and an observation deck are under construction at the top of Kohn Pedersen Fox’s supertall skyscraper One Vanderbilt in New York. Called Summit One Vanderbilt, the observatory and elevator ride is being built near the top of the 1,401-foot-tall (427 metres) building next to Grand Central Station in Midtown Manhattan. Kohn Pedersen Fox

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Safdie Architects designs interconnected housing blocks alongside park over train tracks

June 16, 2021 India Block 0

Orca is a mixed-use development in Toronto designed by Safdie Architects that will have nine interconnected residential towers alongside a park that will be built over a railway. Safdie Architects revealed plans to build decks over a 100-metre-wide and 800-metre-long stretch of the train line that leads to Union Station. The decks will form a 10.5-acre

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Historic Palacio Pereira in Santiago turned into Chile’s Ministry of Culture

June 15, 2021 India Block 0

Architects Cecilia Puga, Paula Velasco and Alberto Moletto have restored Santiago’s Palacio Pereira, an abandoned 19th-century neoclassical mansion, turning it into offices where Chile’s new constitution will be written. The building, which was designed in the mid 1800s by French architect Lucien Hénault is now the headquarters for the country’s Ministry of Culture, Arts and

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“Tadao Ando’s equivalent of what a dog does to a lamppost”

June 15, 2021 India Block 0

Aaron Betsky calls Tadao Ando's redesign of the Bourse de Commerce a disaster

The redesign of Paris’ Bourse de Commerce in Paris by architect Tadao Ando is a “complete disaster” of sterile concrete that turns the building into a monument to French colonial violence, says Aaron Betsky. A billionaire and an architect walked into a bar. “What will you have?” the bartender asked. “Something to forget the evil

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Aidia Studio tops Tulum train station with latticed roof

June 14, 2021 India Block 0

Mexican and English architecture office Aidia Studio has designed a train station for Tulum with a sweeping latticed roof that will be built on the Tren Maya railway line in Mexico. Aidia Studio designed the perforated roof made from structural steel and glass-reinforced concrete panels to enclose over the platforms and concourse. The geometric grid will

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