CLOSE AD × Daily digest: BIG makes waves in Milan, the RIBA Stirling Prize shortlist, and more Assistant/Associate Account Executive--Design PR LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA Project Architect BROOKLINE, MASSACHUSETTS Design Staff | BBT Architects BEND, OREGON Interior Designer | BBT Architects BEND, OREGON Project Architect | BBT Architects BEND, OREGON .cls-1{fill-rule:evenodd} ARCHITECTURE ART DESIGN URBANISM AN INTERIOR AWARDS EVENTS SUBSCRIBE A BIG Day Daily digest: BIG makes waves in Milan, the RIBA Stirling Prize shortlist, and more By The Editors • September 16, 2021 • Architecture, Art, Daily News, International The swooping CityWave will pull double duty as both a solar power collector and an entrance gateway to the new CityLife complex (Courtesy BIG) SHARE Welcome back to another morning news roundup. As the days get longer and temperatures drop, the annual cycle of big project news is reliably beginning to ramp back up again. Here’s what you need to know today BIG breaks ground on a swooping wavelike building in Milan to unite an ambitious master plan Last week, the Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) began work on its low-slung CityWave building in Milan, a massive U-shaped canopy structure that will unite three towers across the CityLife site. The roof of CityWave, supported by rows of super slender columns, will stretch more than 656 feet (200 meters) across the site and pull double duty as one long photovoltaic panel and an entrance gateway to the “neighborhood.” A 12- and 22-story building each bookend CityWave. The new building joins towers by Zaha Hadid Architects, Daniel Libeskind and Arata Isozaki at the site. SUPERFLEX will project a 505-foot-tall video installation at the U.N. for climate week Vertical Migration visualization by SUPERFLEX (Courtesy SUPERFLEX) Climate week kicks off September 20 in New York, as does the 76th United Nations General Assembly; timed to coincide with both and raise awareness of the dire straits the planet is facing thanks to manmade climate change, arts collective SUPERFLEX will project a 505-foot-tall video installation on the north facade of the United Nations Secretariat building from September 21 through 24. Vertical Migration will show a computer-generated siphonophore, which might at first glance appear to be a single animal but is actually composed of a colony of single-celled organisms, drifting across the building. Vertical Migration will run all four nights from 8 p.m. through 11 p.m. and will be accompanied by the Interspecies Assembly sculpture in Central Park’s Naumburg Bandshell. Here’s the 2021 RIBA Stirling Prize shortlist The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) unveiled the shortlist for its prestigious Stirling Prize today, one year after the institute announced that the 2020 edition would be canceled due to COVID travel restrictions (the jury must tour each project under consideration in person). Because of that, the six-item 2021 shortlist contains a number of slightly older projects. They include: Windermere Jetty Museum, Cumbria, by Carmody Groarke Kingston University London – Town House by Grafton Architects 15 Clerkenwell Close, London, by Groupwork (Amin Taha’s limestone-faced home and office building that narrowly avoided demolition in August of 2019) Cambridge Central Mosque by Marks Barfield Architects Tintagel Castle Footbridge for English Heritage, Cornwall, by Ney & Partners and William Matthews Associates Key Worker Housing – Eddington, Cambridge, by Stanton Williams The 2021 RIBA Stirling Prize winner will be announced next month on October 14. H/t to The Architects’ Journal Charting the history of the Phoenix Convention Center In the early 1960s, Phoenix found itself as one of the few major American cities without a major performance venue, and when big acts came to town, they were forced to play high school auditoriums. A group of fed-up residents led the charge to build an official venue, and the $16 million Phoenix Convention Center broke ground in July of 1968 after a successful campaign, which you can read more about on azcentral, digital home of the Arizona Republic. H/t to azcentral With Burning Man canceled, drones recreated some of the festival’s most famous installations With the 2021 edition of art and “free expression” festival Burning Man canceled due to the pandemic for the second year in a row, organizers have instead turned to virtual and smaller-scale informal events. To that end, the Amsterdam-based Studio Drift filled the void at the unofficial “Renegade Man” festival in Nevada, using hundreds of synchronized drones to recreate some of Burning Man’s greatest hits; that includes BIG’s silvery sphere, The ORB, from 2018. H/t to Dezeen L.A. County votes to halt new oil wells as extraction winds down Los Angeles County is dotted with oil wells both hidden and well publicized, but extraction could soon begin to wind down. Yesterday, September 15, the county’s Board of Supervisors unanimously voted to prohibit new oil wells in unincorporated areas (which covers 65 percent of the county) and potentially shut down some of those already in operation. The California Independent Petroleum Association (quite obviously) lobbied hard against the proposal, to little avail; the board cited the myriad health and environmental problems plaguing communities around the wells, as well as the climate change implications, as more than enough evidence for their decision. If the measure is implemented, another 1,600 wells could have their drilling permits revoked as their usage for oil and gas extraction would be changed to “nonconforming.” H/t to Gizmodo BIG-Bjarke Ingels GroupBurning ManRIBA Stirling Prize Trending Now OMA’s park-crowned POST Houston opens in the shell of an old mail processing warehouse El Salvador wants to build a Bitcoin city at the base of a volcano Diller Scofidio + Renfro reveals a barn-inspired design for Rice University’s new Sarofim Hall Tankhouse, a design-forward Brooklyn-based developer, is cut from a different cloth Daily digest: The richest architects of 2021, the Met returns its Benin Bronzes, and more At Moscow’s Garage Museum, SANAA will resurrect a historic hexagonal addition Contentious rezoning along Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal passes the NYC City Council Popular Posts Op-ed: Who cares if a building is advancing a theoretical architectural idea if that idea looks bad? 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Herzog & de Meuron’s Tour Triangle is moving forward, dividing Parisians ICON and Lennar reveal the world’s largest 3D-printed community, designed by BIG Designing Dune required mining the past to build humanity’s future ABBA is getting its own temporary timber stadium in London for Voyage comeback tour A Texas start-up introduces a cost-cutting way to build houses—by printing them Related Posts Keep Austin Printed ICON and Lennar reveal the world’s largest 3D-printed community, designed by BIG October 26, 2021 River Ring of Fire The slow forward march of a Brooklyn waterfront megaproject highlights New York’s land use gauntlet October 20, 2021 A Place Like Home The 2021 RIBA Stirling Prize goes to Grafton Architects’ Kingston University London – Town House October 14, 2021 Information Contact About Advertise Privacy Policy Regions International West Southwest Midwest East Southeast United States Topics AN INTERIOR Architecture Art Design Development Preservation Transportation Urbanism Newsletters City Terrain Facades+ Monday Morning Late Edition: East Late Edition: West Late Edition: Midwest Late Edition: Southwest SpecSheet Conferences Re-use Summit Facades+ Tech+ TimberCon CLOSE AD ×