The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Gets a Refresh—and Everything Else You Need to Know About This Week

Whereas rock ’n’ roll could appear most at dwelling in a dimly lit membership, Cleveland’s Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame & Museum is able to let in slightly mild. The I.M. Pei–designed landmark has begun a $195 million renovation and enlargement by Manhattan-based agency PAU, as a result of wrap in early 2028. The headliners: a hovering glass-walled atrium overlooking Lake Erie, a brand new amphitheater, and a waterfront park. The concept is to deliver the lakefront into the museum and the museum into the on a regular basis lifetime of Clevelanders—a recent method for an establishment that pulls roughly 80 % of its guests from out of city. (The New York Occasions)

Pietro Belluschi’s modernist church buildings have been revered for his or her “holy vacancy,” however not everybody shares the architect’s religion in restraint. At Christ the King Catholic Church in Milwaukie, Oregon, parish leaders have earmarked $4.9 million of a $6.5 million fundraising marketing campaign to “beautify” Belluschi’s 1980 design. To the horror of parishioners, preservationists, and Belluschi’s personal son, the plans would pile on Romanesque prospers, paint over or rip out authentic woodwork, and excise the stained-glass cross by artist György Kepes. The agency behind the makeover is Harrison Design, which can also be accountable for President Trump’s proposed 250-foot triumphal arch. (The Architect’s Newspaper)

Knowledge facilities aren’t precisely successful reputation contests today. However builders in Southern California try a brand new pitch: At the very least we’re not a golf course. A plan for the California Nation Membership within the Metropolis of Trade would exchange a lot of its 18-hole course with a 99-megawatt information heart, leaving 9 holes and including inexperienced house for good measure. Its backers say the swap would scale back the property’s total water consumption by 13 %. Whether or not that may win over communities frightened about noise, electrical energy prices, and the opposite joys of dwelling close to a server farm is one other matter. (Bloomberg)

Giving up your automotive saves on gasoline, insurance coverage, and repairs, but it surely’s simpler in some locations than others. A brand new examine by CoworkingCafe ranked 111 U.S. cities on all the pieces from transit entry to what number of residents stroll or bike to work. Shocking nobody who has ever circled a block looking for parking, New York took the highest spot, with 44 % of commuters counting on public transit. San Francisco got here in second, helped by gasoline at a staggering $6.33 a gallon, adopted by Washington, D.C., Newark, and Boston. See how the remaining cities measure up. (The New York Occasions)

Should you can image the quintessential L.A. dwelling as Hollywood bought it, you’ve gotten the pioneering Black architect Paul R. Williams to thank for a lot of that imaginative and prescient. Lengthy earlier than indoor/out of doors dwelling turned a California actual property cliché, Williams helped make the connection between home and backyard a defining function of SoCal life. His portfolio runs to almost 2,000 properties throughout L.A., together with designs for Frank Sinatra and Cary Grant. But segregation barred him from dwelling in most of the neighborhoods the place he labored. Now, exhibitions at LACMA, the Getty, and USC Fisher are giving his archive its first main displaying, starting from movie star mansions to public housing. (Dwell)

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