Marina Abramovic signed a deal with architect Rem Koolhaus earlier this week to design and construct her Center for the Preservation of Performance Art in Hudson, New York. The Serbian art superstar will seek to raise $8 million to pay for the project, s

Alfred Dickens, the novelist's brother, wrote a General Board of Health report on the area soon to be occupied by the Olympic athletes, recording that "the cholera raged" and there was "neither drainage nor paving" – "in winter the streets were impassabl

Prada and Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas have been collaborating for a decade, and whilst the best-known fruits of the partnership are probably their innovative architectural endeavours – think Seoul’s Transformer project and the Prada Epicenter in New Yor

Richard Perry/The New York Times Penn Station accommodates Long Island Rail Road as well as N.J. Transit and Amtrak trains. It’s time to address the calamity that is Penn Station. Nearly a half-century has passed since the destruction of the great 1910 s

Monday, February 6, 2012, by Sarah Firshein Photo by François Halard/ Architectural Digest Oh boy, Architectural Digest has just dropped its March issue, the magazine's influential annual celebrity-homes issue. In it: a 10-pager on Diane von Furstenberg'

Chicago is buzzing this week about the competition to revamp Navy Pier, one of the city's top tourist attractions. In recent weeks the field of design teams competing to redesign the pier has been whittled down from the more than 50 that submitted propos