Grand Army Plaza should be one of the world’s great urban spaces. Designed in 1867 by Olmsted and Vaux, this magnificent 11-acre plaza is home to powerful architecture, the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Memorial Arch, the elegant Bailey Fountain, the Greenmarket, and the entrance to Prospect Park. Despite its identity as…

AUGUST, 2008, Chicago, Illinois—The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design, together with The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies and Metropolitan Arts Press Ltd., announce sixty-six (66) new distinguished buildings selected this year in the Museum’s prestigious “American Architecture Awards®” program for 2008. Established…

This summer, Parsons The New School of Design is partnering with I.D. magazine to present an exhibition of the I.D. Annual Design Review. On view July 9–September 28, 2008, the Review offers a rare and timely look at the state of contemporary design.…

To mark the closing of MoMA’s special exhibition Design and the Elastic Mind, our sister site Archinect presented a set of reviews that cover the show’s web space, individual pieces of interest, and the themes at play throughout. For those of you that were able to visit…

Twenty-one Returning and Seven New Galleries Will Represent the Extraordinary Scope of Historic and Contemporary Design at Design Miami/ Basel - Basel, Switzerland / June 2 – 5, 2008 Miami, FL and Basel, Switzerland – Design Miami/ Basel, the premier global forum for collecting, exhibiting, discussing…