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Friday, May 16, 2008

Chistopher Hawthorne, Architecture Critic

Architect Rem Koolhaas saw what Vegas didn't have, not what it needed
By Christopher Hawthorne
CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK:  Dutch architect's Guggenheim Hermitage Museum closes at the Venetian Hotel, evidence that the city's visitors seek glitz and gambling, not art and culture.
May 13, 2008
By Christopher Hawthorne
ARCHITECTURE REVIEW:  The site was at odds with the needs of the scientists -- until Viñoly got creative.
April 27, 2008
By Christopher Hawthorne
CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK:  Both visions for downtown's civic plaza are less than inspiring and raise questions about how the design will be handled.
April 21, 2008
By Christopher Hawthorne
CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK:  Hiding a contentious torch, a San Francisco warehouse ousts bold architectural projects in China as Olympic imagery.
April 11, 2008
In design, the temporary is so contemporary
By Christopher Hawthorne
ARCHITECTURE / CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK:  Some architects are playing up the idea of impermanence, perhaps underscoring the changeability of our times and town.
April 13, 2008
By Christopher Hawthorne
CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK:  His finest designs slip into otherworldly realms of desire and memory.
March 31, 2008
By Christopher Hawthorne
ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW:  The museum's Research Institute presents a show on an iconoclast who called architecture 'a vase for life.'
March 17, 2008
By Christopher Hawthorne
CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK:  New parcel means new opportunities.
March 14, 2008
By Christopher Hawthorne
ARCHITECTURE REVIEW:  'Worlds Away' at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis explores the populist shift outside of the city.
February 25, 2008
By Christopher Hawthorne
THE OSCARS | CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK:  With this year's best-picture candidates, conformity in buildings mirrors the erosion of individuality in their inhabitants.
February 24, 2008
Seeing stars — in the sky
By Christopher Hawthorne
ARCHITECTURE:  Los Angeles awaits the reopening of Griffith Observatory.
September 10, 2006
'Sketches of Frank Gehry'
By Christopher Hawthorne
MOVIE REVIEW:  "Gehry" is intriguing but a bit behind the curve.
May 19, 2006
Their declarations of independence
By Christopher Hawthorne
ARCHITECTURE REVIEW:  The L.A. School, with members including Gehry and Mayne, operated outside the mainstream. A SCI-Arc exhibit studies their work.
August 12, 2005
A glitch in the glitz
By Christopher Hawthorne
ARCHITECTURE REVIEW:  The price tag is over the top, but Wynn Las Vegas' exterior isn't.
May 9, 2005
 
 


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