The Architectural Review N° 1422 (2015)
5 Like celebrity-endorsed perfume – fancy box, smelly water – the latest New York towers are more billboard than building
Christine Murray
8 Outrage
Rising from the ashes of 9/11 is not a phoenix, but a $4bn white elephant
Mikkel Rosengaard on Calatrava’s Oculus
11 View
A primitive hut to help solve LA’s housing crisis?
UCLA studio develops a lightweight backyard house: the BI(h)OME.
Michael Webb
16 View
‘Starchitects are putting lipstick on a rash(er) of enormous pigs’
Michael Sorkin on the NYC skyline
19 Sponsored feature
Interview with Alain Moatti
Projects of this scale sometimes start real trends in design and decoration
20 EMERGING ARCHITECTURE
26 The future of the intelligent home.
28 TYPOLOGY SWIMMING POOLS
Sites of ablution, illicit heavy petting, athleticism, surveillance, leisure, racism and death: pools bring people together stripped of status, but in ways profoundly marked by wider social conditions
Tom Wilkinson
36 Sponsored Feature
Concrete geometry
Swisspearl panels the exacting demands of Denver Botanic Gardens’ dramatic Science Pyramid
28 NEW STATES OF PLAY
The crucibles of architectural creativity are found not in NYC o LA, but in the regional centres of the USA
Raymund Ryan
46 ‘Is the anodyne reality an antidote to the iconic?’
Robert Bevan reviews the new Whitney Museum in Manhattan by Renzo Piano Building Workshop
58 THE FLYING TWIST
The WMS Boathouse by Studio Gang Architects is a striking addition to a Chicago park, finds Michael Abrahamson
66 SWEET RELIEF
In the Sugar Hill housing in Manhattan, David Adjaye Associates has transformed the lives of its formerly homeless tenants
Robert Bevan
78 ‘WHY IS THIS ART MUSEUM SO DIVISIVE?’
The insertion of Shigeru Ban’s Aspen Art Museum seems an enviable asset for any city, but it has proved contentious
Tom Ravenscroft
87 LEARNING FROM LOS ANGELES
One Santa Fe by Michael Maltzan is a casual manifesto for a new architecture for this city
Florian Idenburg
Publicado por Natalia Arocena | 23 de septiembre de 2015 - 11:37 | Actualizado: 23 de septiembre de 2015 - 11:37 | PDF
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