- Via NewYork Times

Bernard Tschumi
The Parthenon (5th century B.C.) and, right, its neighbor: the New Acropolis Museum (A.D. 21st century).

” By NICOLAI OUROUSSOFF

NO sane architect, one can assume, would want to invite comparisons between his building and the Parthenon. So it comes as little surprise that the New Acropolis Museum, which stands at the foot of one of the great achievements of human history, is a quiet work, especially by the standards of its flamboyant Swiss-born architect, Bernard Tschumi

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CUBE design & research have launched a new website and blog “Rethinking Preservation’  dedicated to building architecture preservation.. i already added the two links on the right in the sidebar under Architecture and Architecture Blogs.

 read below the description regarding this site as described by CUBE:
” With many significant modernist landmarks increasingly under threat, CUBE design + research has created a proposal that rethinks traditional notions of preservation.  The following links to an animation that uses Paul Rudolph’s Blue Cross Blue Shield office building in Boston as a catalyst for exploration.  The animation is part of a new website that aims to incite a dialogue about the place of preservation in an ever-changing urban landscape.”

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- Via NewYork Times

By NICOLAI OUROUSSOFF

“Few architects today have the finesse of Ben van Berkel. Working with his partner, Caroline Bos, the 50-year-old Amsterdam native has become one of a handful of designers whose approach, driven by a fascination with new computer-age technologies, has a touch of the prophetic. Of all of them, he has so far come closest to fulfilling the dream of a truly elastic world, one in which the boundaries between work and play, private and public life have all but melted away.

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- Via Bustler

“The Swiss architect team “Herzog & de Meuron” opened their joint office in their hometown Basel in 1978. The two architects have known each other since childhood, and both studied architecture at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. They claimed international attention with domestic projects such as the Ricola Storage Building (1987) and the Central Signal Box (1999). Their international projects include the conversion of a former power station into the Tate Modern (2000) in London and the Prada Aoyama Epicenter (2003) in Tokyo. In 2001, the team won the Pritzker Prize and were noted for “refining traditions of modernism to elemental simplicity, while transforming materials and surfaces through the exploration of new treatments and techniques.” Herzog and de Meuron, both avid soccer fans, designed the soccer stadium in Basel and the World Cup soccer stadium Allianz Arena (2005) in Munich. The Main Stadium for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing is now under construction.”

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