4 Architecture Firms Unveil Dream Designs for Penn Station Overhaul, Madison...
Since early April, when the Municipal Art Society tapped Diller Scofidio + Renfro; SHoP Architects; Skidmore, Owings & Merrill; and H3 Hardy Collaboration Architecture to redesign the dreary...
View ArticleHirshhorn Bursts Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s Bubble
Although the Smithsonian Board of Regents had planned to discuss Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s long-debated inflatable atrium on June 24th, secretary of the Smithsonian G. Wayne Clough — never one to...
View ArticleThrowback Thursday: Back to the Future of L.A. Civic Architecture
In the mid-1960s, the heart of the new civic architecture in Los Angeles was the dual project to construct the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in the mid-Wilshire district and the Music Center in the...
View ArticleTo Design the Near-Future, Spike Jonze Consulted Diller Scofidio + Renfro for...
To style “Her,” the forthcoming Spike Jonze film about disembodied digital love in the not-too-distant future, Jonze looked two sources of inspiration: China and Diller Scofidio + Renfro. Lead man...
View ArticleDiller Scofidio + Renfro Will Design a 32-Acre Forested Park Next to Moscow’s...
Diller Scofidio + Renfro have won the competition to design Zaryadye Park next to the Kremlin in central Moscow, reports Reuters. With a budget of approximately $200 million, the High Line architects...
View ArticleThe Final Phase of the High Line Ends With a Bang — Or Rather, a Bowl
The three-part transformation of an abandoned, elevated train track into what is now known as the High Line has an impressive finale in store. Diller Scofidio + Renfro (international arbiters of urban...
View ArticleMoMA to Demolish Tod Williams Billie Tsien’s Former American Folk Art Museum
Although Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R), the architects charged with the Museum of Modern Art’s expansion, bought the adjacent Tod Williams Billie Tsien-designed former American Folk Art Museum a...
View ArticleDiller Scofidio + Renfro and Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects Compete to...
Just one day after MoMA and Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R) confirmed plans to demolish the much-beloved building of the former American Folk Art Museum, designed in 2001 by Tod Williams Billie Tsien...
View ArticleLiz Diller Reveals That a MoMA Expansion Including the Folk Art Museum Could...
The most thought-provoking image from last night’s conversation about MoMA’s expansion plan, hosted by the Architectural League of New York in Manhattan, rendered an impossibility: the incorporation...
View ArticleL.A.’s Broad Art Museum Reveals New Public Plaza Design and Delayed...
Though the Diller Scofidio + Renfro-designed Broad Art Museum in Los Angeles announced today that the much-anticipated institution of post-war and contemporary art won’t open to the public until 2015 —...
View ArticleSaving Face: MoMA to Preserve and Store Former Folk Art Museum’s Façade
Those still mourning the loss of the Todd Williams Billie Tsien-designed American Folk Art Museum at MoMA’s hands may find some (small) consolation in a new revelation: Although the building will still...
View ArticleHow Skipping School Led Charles Renfro to Architecture
Learn the genesis of his career in just two minutes. After a particularly bad episode of bullying in the fourth grade, Charles Renfro told his mother he didn’t want to go to school anymore. “She asked...
View ArticleL.A.’s Architectural Cheerleader: Eli Broad Talks Buildings
Broad stands in front of a rendering of his forthcoming Broad Museum’s exoskeleton at the 2011 unveiling of its design. “I love architecture. I’m very involved in architecture,” billionaire...
View ArticleMoMA Will Begin Demolishing the AFAM This Month
The Museum of Modern Art will begin demolition work within the next two weeks on its beleaguered 53rd St. neighbor, the Tod Williams Billie Tsien-designed former American Folk Art Museum building,...
View ArticleHerzog & de Meuron Revealed as Designers of the Vancouver Art Gallery Expansion
The Vancouver Art Gallery announced today that it has selected Herzog & de Meuron to design its forthcoming expansion, selecting the Swiss firm from a shortlist that also included fellow Pritzker...
View ArticleArchitecture Instagram: Checking in on L.A.’s Broad Museum
Because we’ve have the fortune of riding out New York’s recent bad weather spell in Los Angeles, where the days have been sunny — nay, sweltering — of late, ARTINFO decided to stop by the city’s most...
View ArticleFinal Section of the High Line Earns Thumbs Up From Critics — and Tourists
The third section of New York City’s High Line opened to the public yesterday, the finale in an landscape saga designed jointly by Diller Scofidio + Renfro and James Corner Field Operations. The last...
View ArticleThe Broad Reveals Further Details About its Design and Fall 2015 Opening
By raising the building’s exoskeleton at corner entrances, architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro are ‘lifting to veil.’ With one year left to go until the scheduled opening of the Broad Museum in...
View ArticleLifting the Veil of the Broad’s Finished Facade
The Broad Museum dropped some big news about one of the most highly-anticipated buildings of 2015 just as 2014 was wrapping up. The Diller Scofidio + Renfro-designed museum, which is currently under...
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