SANAA Creates a Cluster of Volumes Housing a Museum and Library to Anchor a New District in Taichung | Architectural Record
A new cultural complex in Taiwan’s second-largest city comprises an array of eight boxy, steel-framed volumes wrapped in aluminum mesh. Source: SANAA Creates a Cluster of Volumes Housing a Museum and Library to Anchor a New District in Taichung | Architectural Record… Continue reading
Rotterdam’s harbour revival continues with a future-facing photography museum – The Spaces
Pakhuis Santos has stood still on Rotterdam’s harbour for years, a rare turn-of-the-century trade warehouse that survived bombing during the Second World War. But this weekend the 1902 heritage site stepped into a dynamic new era as the home of the Netherlands Fotomuseum, part of a landmark adaptive… Continue reading
Rotterdam’s Fotomuseum Reopens in Newly Restored Warehouse Space
The Netherlands Fotomuseum unveils a permanent home in Rotterdam’s historic dockside Santos warehouse, elevating photography’s public profile.The Netherlands Fotomuseum has opened its new permanent home in the historic Santos warehouse on Rotterdam’s Rijnhaven, bringing more than 6.5 million photographic works under one roof and redefining how the medium… Continue reading
The Netherlands Fotomuseum opens; we paid a visit | Wallpaper*
The national photography museum reopens this weekend (7 February), showing off its vast collection and its new location, Santos, a redesigned, listed warehouse on the Rotterdam waterside Source: The Netherlands Fotomuseum opens; we paid a visit | Wallpaper*… Continue reading
LACMA’s New Era Begins With David Geffen Galleries Opening
Twenty years after CEO and director Michael Govan shook things up, the Western U.S.’ largest art museum prepares to unveil its new David Geffen Galleries — anchored by Jeff Koons’ mammoth outdoor sculpture, ‘Split-Rocker’ Source: LACMA’s New Era Begins With David Geffen Galleries Opening… Continue reading
Qatar’s Sheikha al-Mayassa: ‘We’re a very conservative society, but we’re tolerant’
The opening of Art Basel Qatar next week marks a significant shift for both the venerable art fair and for its new host country. Art Basel, founded in 1970 in its Swiss home town, has expanded into highly successful editions in Hong Kong, Miami and Paris.For its venture… Continue reading
The Best New York City Architecture of the Past Decade
Over the past decade, the buildings that have stood out embrace the city’s topography and spirit. Source: The Best New York City Architecture of the Past Decade… Continue reading
Spring 2026 lectures at architecture schools across the country
Also on the architectural photography beat, Iwan Baan’s traveling exhibition From Las Vegas to Rome by Iwan Baan touches down in Texas and is on view at UT through the close of the semester Source: Spring 2026 lectures at architecture schools across the country… Continue reading
Design Reads: A Closer Look At The Influence Of Vitra
Photographer Iwan Baan provides a tour of these structures via a 68-page gallery of images. Of course, the campus features the Vitra Design Museum, which began in 1986 as a showcase of the younger Fehlbaum’s mid-century furniture collection and has since become a leading design institution, partly due… Continue reading
Why Steve Jobs’s Widow Built a Hurricane‑Resistant Timber School in the Caribbean | Wood Central
Laurene Powell Jobs and the XQ Institute are behind Bridgetown’s new Oceana Innovation Hub, the first of a three‑building mass‑timber campus now making waves across the Caribbean and around the world.Designed by Michael Murphy, founder of AMMA, the cross‑laminated timber and glulam building uses a “pyramidal, or many‑angled, roof design,… Continue reading
Spring 2026 public programming: Planetary Imaginaries – Announcements – e-flux
From January 23 to February 20, 2026, Dutch architecture and documentary photographer Iwan Baan will present the exhibition From Las Vegas to Rome in the Mebane Gallery of Goldsmith Hall. From Las Vegas to Rome explores dialogues between these cities through images taken by Baan, one of the most prolific photographers active today. This exhibition looks at Las Vegas—and… Continue reading
Bread and Circuses Rome – Las Vegas – castello books
Baan’s observations of both cities are cleverly arranged: after an introduction with juxtapositions – Rome on the one hand, Las Vegas on the other – longer photo essays follow, each dedicated to one city or the other. People occupy both cities and populate the urban space. Life and… Continue reading