Architecture: Mexican Architect Looks at Historic Rutgers With a Modern Eye
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A design for the Rutgers University campus in New Brunswick, N.J., by Enrique Norten, can unfold as the money is raised.
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Despite inevitable compromises, Yoshio Taniguchi, the architect of the newly redesigned Museum of Modern Art, is pleased with the end result.
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The Museum of Modern Art is the first American project by Tokyo-based architect Yoshio Taniguchi. NEW YORK - Once upon a time, bossy escalators pushed visitors on a chronological march through claustrophobic little rooms.
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The museum's decision to abandon its current redesign suggests how a much-heralded public architecture project can be derailed by economics, politics and personalities.
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One of the world's finest art collections has finally got the kind of clean, modern space that old masters such as Goya, Velazquez and El Greco deserve.
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In many Latin American cities and towns, tiny villages and little pueblos, there is a central plaza, a square anchored by a church, government buildings, the statue of a hero. It is the design imprint of Spanish colonial rule, a place where prayer, politics and street commerce all converge.
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Those wondrously intricate tile mosaics that adorn medieval Islamic architecture may cloak a mastery of geometry not matched in the West for hundreds of years.
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Alain de Botton's 'The Architecture of Happiness' shows how buildings can be beautiful and work well.
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The New York Public Library is restoring the facade of its Beaux-Arts main building, in time for the structureâs centennial in 2011.
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At New York's Guggenheim, an innovative exhibition sheds new light on the legacy of Spain's masters.
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HAVANA - In the heart of Old Havana, at a corner of Plaza de Armas, probably the city&#39;s most beautiful ancient square, a plaque on a building on a street bearing the unlikely name O&#39;Reilly declares an unexpected affinity.
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To engage with an artwork, especially contemporary works, can be a daunting task.
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A new church building in Houston has become the focal point of what some architects are calling a revival of traditional religious architecture in the United States.
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To the untrained eye, the sleek, airy building constructed atop a decommissioned nuclear reactor at the University of California, Los Angeles could pass for high-tech office space.
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New urban architecture applies its art to self-defense, in the face of fears of attack.
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A law officeâs sleek design by AndrÃ©s Escobar incorporates elements of the most modern commercial real estate development.
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By Jim Balow  balow@wvgazette.com  Four pastel-colored older homes stand well-preserved along Park Avenue, in the heart of the West Side's Luna Park neighborhood, all designed by one of the state's first black architects.