Chinese-American architect IM Pei turns 100 today. To celebrate, we’ve selected 10 of his most iconic buildings from a career that spans seven decades. Ieoh Ming Pei was born on 26 April 1917 in Guangzhou, China. He moved to the US to study architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, then engineering at the Massachusetts Institute
The post IM Pei at 100: 10 of the architect’s most significant buildings appeared first on Dezeen.
The site of the former Domino Sugar Factory on the Brooklyn waterfront will open as a public park in 2018, as part of a major redevelopment project. The derelict patch of land that the red-brick factory sits on – just north of the Williamsburg Bridge – will be transformed by landscape architecture firm James Corner
The post Williamsburg’s Domino Sugar Factory site to become six-acre park by James Corner Field Operations appeared first on Dezeen.
A+Awards: South African studio SAOTA received a 2016 Architizer A+Award for this residence in Cape Town, which enjoys views of the area’s dramatic rock formations. The 2,023-square-metre house, named OVD 919, looks down over the city’s affluent beachside neighbourhoods Bantry Bay and Clifton from a lofty perch on a mountain known as Lion’s Head. “Nestled
The post Mountainside villa by SAOTA frames Cape Town’s spectacular scenery appeared first on Dezeen.
Intricate models of buildings by Le Corbusier, Norman Foster, Peter Zumthor and more are going on show at New York’s Columbia University, alongside photographs by James Ewing. The scale models were created by students at Columbia’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) between 1993 and 2004. They represent the Pavillon des Temps Nouveaux
The post Columbia GSAPP presents architectural models and photos in Stagecraft exhibition appeared first on Dezeen.
The story of Mies van der Rohe’s iconic Farnsworth House is set for the silver screen, with Oscar-winning actor Jeff Bridges set to play the famous modernist architect. The feature film will follow the relationship between Van der Rohe and his client, Chicago nephrologist Edith Farnsworth, during the design and construction of the glass-box dwelling.
The post Jeff Bridges and Maggie Gyllenhaal to star in movie about Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House appeared first on Dezeen.
Copyright © 2026 | WordPress Theme by MH Themes
