Tag: site | ArchDaily ArchDaily | Broadcasting Architecture Worldwide https://www.archdaily.com/ Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://assets.adsttc.com/doodles/archdaily-logo-feedly.svg 026CB6 <![CDATA["The Site is the Architect, the Site is Materiality": On Ammar Khammash and Notes on Formation]]> https://www.archdaily.com/1007806/the-site-is-the-architect-the-site-is-materiality-on-ammar-khammash-and-notes-on-formation Thu, 21 Mar 2024 07:00:00 +0000 Christele Harrouk https://www.archdaily.com/1007806/the-site-is-the-architect-the-site-is-materiality-on-ammar-khammash-and-notes-on-formation Ammar Khammash is a Jordanian architect, designer, and artist best known for his approach that focuses on the preservation of cultural and natural heritage while crafting an architecture that engages with its surroundings. With deep admiration for nature and its ecosystems, Khammash trusts that "the site is the architect”, a statement for which he is renowned that underscores the profound influence of context on his architectural design. With over three decades of experience spanning various disciplines and across several Middle Eastern countries such as Jordan, Oman, Palestine, Egypt, Syria, and the UAE, Ammar Khammash has consistently attempted to preserve and enhance the symbiosis between human constructions and the natural environment. His contributions include the Royal Academy for Nature Conservation, the Wild Jordan Center, and the restoration of the Church of Apostles.

]]> <![CDATA[“Architecture Needed to Be Liberated from Itself”: In Conversation with James Wines]]> https://www.archdaily.com/1005387/architecture-needed-to-be-liberated-from-itself-in-conversation-with-james-wines Tue, 15 Aug 2023 03:30:00 +0000 Vladimir Belogolovsky https://www.archdaily.com/1005387/architecture-needed-to-be-liberated-from-itself-in-conversation-with-james-wines James Wines, a New York architect and environmental artist, has been on a mission of sorts. He believes that architecture needs to be liberated from itself. This act of liberation is expressed in many radical projects that he and his company, SITE (Sculpture In The Environment) realized in 11 countries. Wines is world famous for such projects as Ghost Parking Lot (Hamden, CO, 1977), Highrise of Homes (theoretical project, 1981), Highway 86 (Vancouver, Canada, 1986), Fondazione Pietro Rossini Pavilion (Briosco, Italy, 2008), and Off-White Showroom for Virgil Abloh (Ginza, Tokyo, 2021). The very essence of the architect’s work is expressed in his fascinating stores for BEST Products Company, the key focus of my conversation with the architect that took place over Zoom on August 10, 2022, following many of our in-person meetings.

]]> <![CDATA[“The Point is to Attack Architecture!“: In conversation with James Wines of SITE]]> https://www.archdaily.com/920798/the-point-is-to-attack-architecture-in-conversation-with-james-wines-of-site Mon, 15 Jul 2019 04:00:00 +0000 Vladimir Belogolovsky https://www.archdaily.com/920798/the-point-is-to-attack-architecture-in-conversation-with-james-wines-of-site Recorded on November 17, 2015, at the architect’s studio in Manhattan.

]]> <![CDATA[International Competition: Landmarker for a Nuclear Waste Site]]> https://www.archdaily.com/876251/international-competition-landmarker-for-a-nuclear-waste-site Thu, 20 Jul 2017 14:20:00 +0000 Rene Submissions https://www.archdaily.com/876251/international-competition-landmarker-for-a-nuclear-waste-site How do we design architecture with a message that could endure for millennia ?

Since the Cold War, one of the most challenging and urgent tasks facing governments around the world has been the disposal of transuranic nuclear waste. As a by-product from nuclear weaponry production, transuranic waste is not only harmful, but also boasts a formidable decay process lasting thousands of years. To address this issue, millions of barrels of highly radioactive waste have been buried in repositories deep beneath the earth’s surface. One such disposal site is the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in New Mexico, United

]]> <![CDATA[THIS IS PHOENIX: uncover | highlight | reveal | the essence of phoenix]]> https://www.archdaily.com/793172/this-is-phoenix-uncover-highlight-reveal-the-essence-of-phoenix Thu, 11 Aug 2016 14:15:00 +0000 Rene Submissions https://www.archdaily.com/793172/this-is-phoenix-uncover-highlight-reveal-the-essence-of-phoenix THE 2016 AIA PHOENIX METRO DESIGN COMPETITION

THIS IS PHOENIX
uncover | highlight | reveal | the essence of phoenix


A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it. - George Moore


While we may not always see it for ourselves, each PLACE has the potential to inspire great possibilities.

All of us explore, create and move our way through the world. The places we live become the context of our stories. These places hold a unique quality that makes them specific and memorable. This can be called a place’s identity. While Phoenix is a relatively

]]> <![CDATA[Call for Entries: Nupath Sculpture Competition ]]> https://www.archdaily.com/786619/nupath-sculpture-competition Sun, 01 May 2016 15:45:00 +0000 Rene Submissions https://www.archdaily.com/786619/nupath-sculpture-competition We see opportunities for collaboration for art and architecture students and NuPath. We would love to engage the students in a potential competition project of creating sculptures to the name of those who were part of NuPath. The project is to design a single sculpture or installation that could be dynamically multiplied on site. The outdoor space is located on the back green space of the building, located in 147 New Boston Street in Woburn, MA and it is currently being planned as the Outdoor Sculpture Park. With the innovative and creative ideas from art and architecture students, we can help memorialize people that were part of the NuPath family.

]]> <![CDATA[Interview with James Wines: "The Point is to Attack Architecture!"]]> https://www.archdaily.com/783491/interview-with-james-wines-the-point-is-to-attack-architecture Wed, 09 Mar 2016 10:30:00 +0000 Vladimir Belogolovsky https://www.archdaily.com/783491/interview-with-james-wines-the-point-is-to-attack-architecture As the founder of SITE, an architecture firm most widely-known for their seminal series of stores for BEST in the 1970s, James Wines has become something of an anomaly in the field of architecture: originally an artist, his approach of creating architecture as a form of cultural criticism struck a chord almost universally, delighting critics and the public alike. In this interview, the latest in Vladimir Belogolovsky's “City of Ideas” column, Wines explains the ideas behind those early designs and how his subsequent works have continued that thread of ideas.

]]> <![CDATA[When Art, Architecture and Commerce Collided: The BEST Products Showrooms by SITE]]> https://www.archdaily.com/778003/the-intersection-of-art-and-architecture-the-best-products-showrooms-by-site-sculpture-in-the-environment Mon, 07 Dec 2015 09:30:00 +0000 David Douglass-Jaimes https://www.archdaily.com/778003/the-intersection-of-art-and-architecture-the-best-products-showrooms-by-site-sculpture-in-the-environment According to one survey, images of the BEST Products Showroom in Houston, Texas, designed by SITE (Sculpture in the Environment), appeared in more books on 20th-century architecture than any other building. The intentionally crumbling brick at that Houston store, known as “Indeterminate Façade,” and the eight other showrooms SITE designed, were simultaneously iconic and controversial, and most importantly for BEST, they brought in customers. Although SITE-founder James Wines never considered himself a Postmodernist architect, his designs for BEST, completed between 1972 and 1984, steeped in whimsical social commentary, came to symbolize the essence of Postmodernism. Today, all but one of the BEST showrooms have been demolished or altered beyond recognition, but they set a lasting precedent, and continue to influence the use of architecture in corporate branding today.

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