Greece’s new Acropolis Museum, designed by celebrated Franco-Swiss architect Bernard Tschumi, has finally been unveiled after years of delays and legal wrangling.
General view of the New Acropolis Museum
The new Acropolis Museum will open today. It is located 300 meters from the famous ruins, and cost $181 million to build.
Greek President Dimitrios Pandermalis wrote: “The new Acropolis Museum was designed with two objectives: the first to offer the best conditions for the exhibition of its exhibits and [...]
City of London Information Centre – Interior © Benedict Luxmore.
The Royal Institute of British Architects announced the winners of the 2009 RIBA Awards. RIBA Awards for architectural excellence will be presented across the country today with 103 buildings in the UK and Europe winning awards (97 in the UK and six in the rest of [...]
The wild, delirious ride that architecture has been on for the last decade looks as if it’s finally coming to an end. And after a visit to the Chanel Pavilion that opened Monday in Central Park, you may think it hasn’t come soon enough.
Designed to display artworks that were inspired by Chanel’s 2.55, a quilted [...]
Not all architects embrace the idea of evolution. Some, fixated on the 20th-century notion of the avant-garde, view their work as a divine revelation, as if history began with them. Others pine for the Middle Ages.
But if you want reaffirmation that human history is an upward spiral rather than a descent into darkness, head to [...]
The Board of the Foundation La Biennale di Venezia, chaired by Paolo Baratta, and on the proposal of the Director, Aaron Betsky, attributed the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement for the 11th International Architecture Exhibition to Frank Gehry. With this award, the desire is to stress –in line with the spirit of the 11th Architecture [...]
La Biennale di Venezia, chaired by Paolo Baratta, inaugurates the 11th International Architecture Exhibition titled Out There: Architecture Beyond Building, and directed by Aaron Betsky. The Exhibition will take place from Sunday September 14th through Sunday November 23rd 2008.
According to Aaron Betsky – for six years director of the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAI) in Rotterdam, [...]