Museo Soumaya

Mexico City's Museo Soumaya was designed by Fernando Romero.  The aluminum hexagonal tiles on the exterior suggest an apiary aesthetic, stitched by Linda Evan's seamstress.  The first curvilinear museum was spawned by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1939, this is the new age Guggenheim.

Leviathan

Anish Kapoor found the interior space of the Grand Palais "more overwhelming" than being outdoors because there were no vertical or horizontal references to human scale.  In a stroke of brilliance,  he inflated the space to engulf the occupier.  

Arts and Crafts

Mark Jenkins creates outdoor sculpture from reams of adhesive tape.   Staples must love this guy.

comic relief

Santiago Morilla's graffiti-inspired installation in the courtyard of the Fondazione Pastificio Cerere transforms the rundown urban landscape into an episodic diphthong of conjoining gestures.

Stairway to Gehry

The Art Gallery of Ontario hired Frank Gehry to design a staircase to sew the circulation path of the expanding collection together.  In a clever twist, it bows to New York's Guggenheim's shell but unravels the model to further the occupier through the space.

CCTV

Beijing's CCTV building lends an argyle je ne sais quoi.  However, the irregular web of rebar lattice poses an interesting dichotomy to Mies van der Rohe's rhythmic steel grid used at the Seagram Building.  In this case, the tighter gauge of the tartan at the entrances are fantastic as they instantly ground the occupier of the space against the magnitude of the structure. 

tepidarium redux

The Mycenaean built The Lion Gate around 13BC to provide a formal gateway from the countryside into the citadel.  In it's simplest form, it was a vast wall with one square opening. 

The physical characteristics of this pool house suggest that it's lineage began in Greece.  Working as a functional threshold, the structure also weaves the landscape with the pool area via it's materiality.  Soil horizon-like veins are translated through the reclaimed wood panels, which abbreviate to sensationally frame the landscape.