This article originally appeared in ArchRecord.com. Photo courtesy Spillis Candela DMJM A recent photo of Miami Marine Stadium, an abandoned Modernist landmark designed in 1963 by then 27-year-old Cuban-American architect Hilario Candela. Photo courtesy Spillis Candela DMJM In 2009, the World Monuments Fund included the Miami Marine Stadium on its annual list of the "11 Most Endangered Places." Related Links: VIDEO: Miami Marine Stadium: Touring a Modernist Ruin Record Reveals: Miami The Miami City Commission is deliberating whether to give a nonprofit group the green light to rehabilitate Miami Marine Stadium, an abandoned Modernist landmark designed in 1963 by then
Dia Art Foundation is having a homecoming. On November 6 the nonprofit organization announced it will construct an exhibition space at 545 West 22nd Street, just steps from a facility it shuttered five years ago. Currently Dia�s staff and board are writing a program for the new building. Its director, Philippe Vergne, says architect selection should take place within several months. The site of Dia�s future home in Chelsea. Dia was established in 1974 to support large-scale, site-specific art, such as installations by Donald Judd and John Chamberlain in Marfa, Texas, and Walter De Maria’s The Lightning Field in New