OMA's CCTV building reviewed in the New York Times

Apart from being transfixed by the UK phone hacking scandal this week, we were also interested to see Nicolai Ouroussoff's New York Times review of architect Rem Koolhaas' CCTV building in Beijing, now that the structure has finally opened. Ouroussoff is widely acknowledged as a fan of Koolhaas' work, and his provocative review and the ensuing discussion on the comments thread on the Times site is well worth a read. Here's an image by Philippe Ruault from the Times of the building, showing the garden beneath it:



You can read Ouroussoff's piece here. And you can see other photographs of the building from HOME's Beijing visit in an earlier post here.

Sorry about the relative quiet on the blog this week - we're hurtling towards next week's deadline of sending the Home of the Year issue to print.

The Home of the Year issue will be on sale August 4. An exciting extra this year is that we are creating online short films of each of the 10 homes shortlisted for the award, which you'll be able to view here on the site from August 4 onwards.

Charles Renfro on The Nation

Our visiting guest star Charles Renfro of New York's Diller, Scofidio + Renfro was interviewed by TV3's The Nation when he was here recently (thanks again to First Windows & Doors, who made Charles' visit and his Auckland and Wellington lectures possible). The TV piece is at the link below.

Visiting New York architect Charles Renfro

Also, DS+R's latest work at New York's Lincoln Center was reviewed in the New York Times this weekend by Nicolai Ouroussoff. This is the second stage of the redesign of the Center DS+R are leading, part of what will be a billion-dollar redesign. Ouroussoff seems less pleased with the firm's work on this stage than he was with their earlier redesign of the Center's Alice Tully Hall, though there is high praise for the new structure DS+R have inserted at the Center, with a sweeping grass roof from which to overlook the plaza, as you can see in this image by Beatrice de Gea for the New York Times.



Here's the link to the New York Times slide show; you can also click through to the accompanying article.

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/05/20/arts/design/20100521-lincoln-slideshow.html