Austrian Cultural Forum in NYC

The Austrian Cultural Forum tower in midtown Manhattan provides a state-of-the art home for an institution devoted to international cultural exchange. The building is the first major United States project for Austrian-born New York architect Raimund Abraham, whose design was selected in an open competition hosted by the Republic of Austria from among 226 participating architects in 1992. Facilities of the Forum tower include exhibition galleries; a flexible theater for performances, screenings, and lectures; a library; loft-like presentation areas and seminar rooms; reception and meeting spaces; staff offices; a multi-level residence for the Forum's director; and an open-air loggia at the tower's pinnacle. Occupying the diminutive (25 feet wide by 81 feet deep) mid-block site of the institution’s former townhouse, the new building rises to a 24-story height with the authority of a landmark, expressing the contextual relevance of both the architecture and the Forum’s mission to connect European and American creative visions.

Another contemporary architecture highlight on the Manhattan westside

After the Gehry’s IAC Building and the DS+R’s High Line on the manhattan westside in Chealsea a new high-tech building by Jean Nouvel’s is completed. The tower at 100 Eleventh Avenue has a stunning glass facade that seems to be composed from lots of fragments fixed togheter.

MoMA PS1

"Pole Dance," a dynamic architectural environment designed by Solid Objectives

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Lecture at Columbia University: Projects for the new Manhattan Waterfront

Zone 0: Lower Manhattan and the northern edge of the Upper Bay (ARO and dlandstudio)

Zone 1: Northwest Palisade Bay/Hudson River area in NJ area including: Liberty Park / Ellis Island and Statue of Liberty and waters (LTL Architects)

Zone 2: Southwest Palisade Bay/Kill van Kull area including Bayonne NJ, Bayonne Piers and northern Staten Island and waters (Matthew Baird Architects)

Zone 3: South Palisade Bay/Verrazano Narrows area including eastern Staten Island and Bay Ridge and Sunset Park and waters (nARCHITECTS)

Zone 4: Northeast Palisade Bay/Buttermilk Channel and Gowanus Canal area including Governors Island, Red Hook and waters (SCAPE)

Back in NYC...BIG BAMBU' installation by Doug + Mike Starn

Invited by The Metropolitan Museum of Art to create a site-specific installation for The Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden, the twin brothers Mike and Doug Starn (born in New Jersey in 1961) present their new work, Big Bambú: You Can't, You Don't, and You Won't Stop. The monumental bamboo structure, ultimately measuring 100 feet long, 50 feet wide, and 50 feet high, takes the form of a cresting wave that bridges realms of sculpture, architecture, and performance. Visitors witness the continuing creation and evolving incarnations of Big Bambú as it is constructed throughout the spring, summer, and fall by the artists and a team of rock climbers. Set against Central Park and its urban backdrop, Big Bambú suggests the complexity and energy of an ever-changing living organism. It is the thirteenth-consecutive single-artist installation on the Roof Garden.

Photographic exhibition in a drained swimming pool

BLACK&BLUE ARCHITECTURAL PHOTO VISIONS Exhibition by Gianni Galassi

Open from 28th August to 3rd October in San Giorgio Island (Venice)

Venice Architecture Saturdays (first seminary):Shootings in the Lagoon

from left to right: Marco Biraghi, Mario Botta, Vittorio Gregotti, Paolo Baratta, Germano Celant, Joseph Rykwert,Franco Raggi.