2010 in review: Christopher Hawthorne on architecture
From a distance, this Las Vegas building appears to employ the same riotous curves and colliding forms that Frank Gehry has relied on, as a formal lexicon, for perhaps too long; but to walk through it and to think about it in terms of the studies on
Architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne’s picks for best and worst designs of 2010.
Borrowing a model from Latin American cities, organizers managed to win city approval to close down nearly eight miles of L.A. streets for most of a Sunday in October. The turnout of at least 100,000 exceeded everyone’s expectations, offering another sign of a growing constituency in
None of the stations promise to be architectural landmarks, but the Metro rail line running west from downtown to Culver City, part of which will open in 2011, is now plainly visible as an architectural and civic fact on the ground. So is the way that the line is poised to remake the landscape alongside it — not to mention tired assumptions about
