* Architecture: Campbell Sports Center of Columbia University by Steven Holl Architects – Review – ‘A Sports Complex Shows Its Brains and Brawn’ by Michael Kimmelman in The New York Times

Architecture: Campbell Sports Center of Columbia University by Steven Holl Architects – Review – ‘A Sports Complex Shows Its Brains and Brawn’ by Michael Kimmelman in The New York Times: “..The center, designed by Steven Holl and Chris McVoy, of Steven Holl Architects, the New York firm, is a trifle beside Mr. Holl’s mega office and residential projects in China and elsewhere. And it’s not a beauty. But it is a tough, sophisticated and imaginative work of architecture for a devilish site..Mr. Holl took on something vaguely similar a few years ago for the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, inserting an addition to its architecture school into a tricky, dissonant space connecting two 19th-century buildings. In this case the challenge is a neglected hilly corner..its facade a mix of irregular blocks and voids, quasi-Cubist, crisscrossed by exterior stairways. All sorts of cuts, setbacks, overhangs and terraces animate the design..”

See some of our posts on other work by Steven Holl Architects:

•  Residential Architecture: Video: Daeyang Gallery and House by Steven Holl Architects
• Architecture: Maggie’s Barts by Steven Holl Architects
• Residential Architecture: Daeyang Gallery and House by Steven Holl Architects
• Architecture: Institute for Contemporary Art by Steven Holl Architects
• Architecture: Knut Hamsun Centre by Steven Holl Architects
• Residential Architecture: Sun Slice House by Steven Holl Architects
• Architecture: Hangzhou Music Museum by Steven Holl Architects
• Architecture: Museum of Ocean and Surf by Steven Holl Architects in collaboration with Solange Fabiao
• Architecture: Cornell Reveals the Architects Competing to Design the First NYC Tech Campus Building
• Architecture: In China: Linked Hybrid by Steven Holl Architects
• Architecture: In China: Sliced Porosity Block by Steven Holl Architects
• Architecture: Sustainable Architecture: Vanke Center by Steven Holl Architects
• Architecture: In China: Horizontal Skyscraper by Steven Holl
• Architecture & Civic Engagement – Steven Holl & Chris McVoy
• Architecture in China – Linked Hybrid to the Bug Dome – Design Observer

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image: Richard Perry/The New York Times; article: Michael Kimmelman, The New York Times

* Architecture: Knut Hamsun Centre by Steven Holl Architects

Architecture: Knut Hamsun Centre by Steven Holl Architects: “..The building is conceived as an archetypal and intensified compression of spirit in space and light..The building uses the vernacular style as inspiration for reinterpretation..The stained black wood exterior skin is characteristic of the great wooden stave Norse churches. On the roof garden, bamboo refers to traditional Norwegian sod roofs in a modern way. The rough white-painted and the concrete interiors are characterized by diagonal rays of light calculated to ricochet through the section on certain days of the year..”  Including excellent photos by Steven Holl Architects, Chris McVoy and Iwan Baan..

See our posts on other fascinating, excellent and inspirational work by Steven Holl Architects: Residential Architecture: Sun Slice House by Steven Holl Architects…. Architecture: Hangzhou Music Museum by Steven Holl Architects…. Architecture: Museum of Ocean and Surf by Steven Holl Architects in collaboration with Solange Fabiao…. Architecture: In China: Linked Hybrid by Steven Holl Architects…. Architecture: In China: Sliced Porosity Block by Steven Holl Architects…. Architecture: Sustainable Architecture: Vanke Center by Steven Holl Architects and Architecture & Civic Engagement – Steven Holl & Chris McVoy.

See our posts including other photos by the very talented architecture photographer Iwan Baan: Architecture: El B – Auditorium in Cartagena by Selgascano, Architecture: 2012 Pritzker Prize: More photos of Wang Shu’s work by Iwan Baan and Architecture: Zaha Hadid: Chinese Gem That Elevates Its Setting by Nicolai Ouroussoff.

image: © Chris McVoy; article: Arthitectural

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Architecture & Civic Engagement – Steven Holl & Chris McVoy

Queens Public Library at Hunters Point, designed by Steven Holl & Chris McVoy

image: Steven Holl Architects

Nicolai Ouroussoff continues to win our hearts and minds with an interesting, thoughtful and positive-thinking article entitled “Civic Engagement Trumps ‘Shhh!’” in the Art & Design section of The New York Times on the Queens Public Library at Hunters Point, designed by Steven Holl and Chris McVoy, and the importance of civil engagement in contemporary architecture.  American architect Holl’s work is inspiring, if often overlooked in the US, and Ouroussoff’s article is, itself, inspiring.  Once again, this is what architectural journalism should be: informed, critical, and inspiring.

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