Austin’s Seaholm Power Plant, decommissioned in 1996, will become the centerpiece of an 8-acre, mixed-use development.
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When Bernard Tschumi‘s home for the Acropolis antiquities opens in June, it will mark an end to a convoluted saga involving political strife, archeological ruins, and the most influential building in western civilization. The architect talks to Julie V. Iovine about designing a contemporary building atop one of the world’s most historically charged sites.
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The renovation retains the museum’s frayed historical layers.
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There is no real precedent for New York’s newest urban promenade — sculpted from the famed elevated railway — and time will tell how much Field Operations and Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s design lives up to our unfettered fantasies. Julie V. Iovine takes a first stroll.
