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Articles by Philip Nobel
Tech's Teaching Moment: The Shape of Culture in the Post‐Blob Era
Abstract In the aerospace and automobile industries, while the continuing adoption of digital technologies results in streamlining workflows and procurement practices, faster prototyping and virtual simulations, it has not radically redesigned the form of the car or the shape of an aircraft. In architecture, however, the assimilation of digital technologies has been used to create new forms.
A Hillside Home in Austin, Texas, Becomes a Coveted Retreat
This article originally appeared in the February 2013 issue of Architectural Digest. One test of good architecture is how well it confronts limitations. Does the design adapt to the constraints of a tight schedule or a difficult site, overcoming or embracing such realities—lessons learned—to glorious effect? Or does it fail to come together in a pleasing and compelling way? To put it in familiar terms, when life gives architects lemons, what do they end up with?
The Commercial Real-Estate Market’s Impending Crash
Gurnee Mills is a sprawling, 1.93 million-square-foot outlet mall in Gurnee, Illinois, about 45 miles north of Chicago. In better times, it was a bustling shopper’s mecca. It underwent a $6 million renovation in 2018, and managed, in recent years, to replace its departed anchor stores, like TJ Maxx.
Interview with Architect Annabelle Selldorf | Architectural Digest
Architectural Digest : Tell us about your inspiration for the new David Zwirner gallery in Manhattan. High-quality raw concrete like what you used on the façade and interior stairwell is such a rarity in New York City—I think builders and clients generally try to avoid it. How did you get away with it?
A Crop of Projects With Green Bonafides
And visit: an elegant outbuilding housing an information center will be a destination for day trips and school outings. It is connected by a bridge to an enormous shed called the “tipping building,” where visitors can watch from a mezzanine, as sanitation workers sort through the mountains of plastic, glass and metal that have found their way into blue bags and bins throughout the city.
After the Manifesto: Writing, Architecture, and Media in a New Century
After the Manifesto: Writing, Architecture, and Media in a New Century, edited by Craig Buckley, Columbia GSAPP Books on Architecture, March 2015, 176 pages,(paper) $35. The first lines of Craig Buckley’s introduction to this collection of essays from the proceedings of conferences on the subject of manifestos at Columbia and the University of Navarra in 2012, seem surprising. “There has been something like a mania for the manifesto in recent years,” he writes.
Barclays Center, by SHoP Architects
“Don’t be afraid—it’s only Brooklyn.” That was Jay-Z’s shouted message to the Barclays Center crowd one night during his run of sold-out shows scheduled to celebrate the opening of the new arena. It’s unclear which aspect of the booming, ever-more-gentrified borough he thought might scare the audience; the lights were all killed at the moment he spoke, and the interior as designed by New York’s SHoP Architects is black-on-black, so perhaps it was just the dark?
The New York Times
ARCHITECTURE is slow. So slow it sometimes appears not to be moving forward at all. Projects get bogged down — more now than ever, it seems — by financial shortfalls, public opposition, disputes over labor or design. All on top of the mundane difficulties of putting together, piece by piece, the stuff that makes a building. But in time, and with luck, buildings do get built. Even in New York.
Look Inside a Light-Filled Manhattan Loft Equipped for Entertaining
This article originally appeared in the September 2012 issue of Architectural Digest. The Flatiron District can be a somewhat forbidding corner of Manhattan. Even after decades of development, the neighborhood maintains a gritty penumbra of its past life as a locus of manufacturing. The buildings there are stern and glowering, with thickly ornamented façades of brick, stone, and iron.
ANNLEE: SIGN OF THE TIMES
In 1999, PIERRE HUYGHE and PHILIPPE PARRENO purchased the rights to a manga drawing from a Japanese firm and called on a dozen artist friends to realize works based on that cartoon character, whom they named Annlee. The fruits of their communal effort were brought together for the first time in “No Ghost Just a Shell,” a traveling exhibition that began its international tour at the Kunsthalle Zürich last year.
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