Entertainment & Arts
To design his presidential library, Barack Obama has chosen a pair of New York architects whose cool, precise style in some ways mirrors his own.
June 30, 2016
When we last checked in on plans for the Barack Obama Presidential Center, in early May, architects Tod Williams and Billie Tsien had just unveiled preliminary designs for the three-building campus in Jackson Park, on the South Side of Chicago.
Sept. 28, 2017
Pritzker Prize-winning architect Thom Mayne and his Santa Monica firm Morphosis are on the short list of candidates to design a 120,000-square-foot center for education and art for the Barnes Foundation, the organization announced Friday.
April 28, 2007
May 11, 2017
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April 27, 2010
The art press these days is rife with stories about splashy museum building projects: from the controversial expansion of the Museum of Modern Art in New York (which has devoured a relatively new building by Tod Williams Billie Tsien architects) to the behemoth cinder blob proposed by Swiss architect Peter Zumthor for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Oct. 7, 2014
Architecture review: A poor replica of Barnes Foundation museum
May 11, 2012
Michael Rotondi, a partner with Thom Mayne in the West Los Angeles-based Morphosis architectural firm, has been named director of the Southern California Institute of Architecture.
Oct. 25, 1987
Oct. 21, 2010
The Museum of Modern Art, chasing new square footage less than a decade after its last major expansion opened to the public, has confirmed controversial plans to demolish the former home of the American Folk Art Museum, its neighbor on West 53rd Street in Manhattan.
Jan. 9, 2014