Andrés Jaque/Office for Political Innovation’s Cosmo at MoMA PS1. Miguel de Guzman

Enthusiasm for large-scale statement architecture may have reached a breaking point. And the timing couldn’t be better for the rising young architects who have already moved away from the idea of architecture as big shapes and spaces. In Japan, a controversial $2 billion stadium designed by the world-famous architect Zaha Hadid for the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo was recently canceled with harsh words about its spaceship, or turtle-like, appearance from prominent local architects and about its ballooning costs from the Japanese prime minister, Shinzo Abe.......Continue Reading

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