Mori Art Museum & Sou Fujimoto’s “Primitive Future” Architecture
The incredible architecture of Sou Fujimoto is being celebrated with an exhibition at Tokyo’s Mori Art Museum. Sou Fujimoto: Primordial Future Forest is the Japanese architect’s first major exhibition. Split into eight sections, the survey is an innovative architecture exhibition that not only includes the usual scale models, plans, and… Continue reading
BV Doshi’s last project opens at the prestigious Vitra Campus in Germany | Architectural Digest India
Imagined by the late BV Doshi and realised by Khushnu Panthaki Hoof and Sönke Hoof of Studio Sangath, the Doshi Retreat opens at the Vitra Campus in Weil Am Rhein, Germany. Stillness. Contemplation. Memory. Ritual. Movement. These were among the many words that BV Doshi scribbled on… Continue reading
Lisbon Architecture Triennale 2025 Examines the Technosphere and Human Impact on Earth | ArchDaily
In the exhibition Fluxes at MAAT – Central Tejo, the technosphere’s mass begins in the ground. Iwan Baan’s Petroleum offers a stark portrait of the Athabasca Tar Sands in Canada, an aerial archaeology of extraction where the landscape becomes both resource and ruin. The images reveal the paradox… Continue reading
facing pyramids of giza, grand egyptian museum set to open
The Grand Egyptian Museum by heneghan peng architects has reached completion, standing just over a mile from the Pyramids of Giza. The vast complex is located on a desert plateau at the edge of Cairo, and stands as a bridge between the past and the present of the… Continue reading
The unlikely parallel between Rome’s eternal architecture and the Las Vegas Strip – Monocle
Today on the Strip, pavements swerve in and out of casinos and shopping malls as pedestrians are subjected to terrible music. It feels far from the dolce vita. But Baan, like Scott Brown and Venturi before him, has a point: the two cities have striking similarities. Both have Disney-esque… Continue reading
Is Manresa Wilds the Future of Public Parks? – The New York Times
The hike up to the roof involved Escher-like flights of metal stairs and grated catwalks like high wires, dangling above a spectacular abyss of rusted machinery. The ’60s-era control room, straight out of “Apollo 13,” opened onto a turbine hall the size of the concourse at Grand Central. Continue reading
Lezing Iwan Baan – Museum Kranenburgh
Op zondag 12 oktober organiseert Museum Kranenburgh een lezing met fotograaf Iwan Baan. In de tentoonstelling Momentum of Light toont hij een selectie van foto’s die hij in 2021 in Burkina Faso maakte van traditionele architectuur. Baan legt vast hoe de dagelijkse cyclus van het zonlicht centraal staat in… Continue reading
Sou Fujimoto, ‘What Role Can Architecture Play in an Age of Division?’ / Pen ペン
Through the design of the ‘Grand Ring’ for the 2025 Osaka World Expo, Sou Fujimoto set out to question how people across the globe might be brought together. In an era of growing divides, he reflects on the role architecture can play, while tracing the evolution of his… Continue reading
Sculpture goes underground in Philadelphia’s Calder Gardens
The Calders are everywhere in Philadelphia. Atop City Hall is a statue of the writer and theologian William Penn by Alexander Milne Calder (1894), which set the limit for the height of the city’s buildings until 1986. To the north west, his son Alexander Stirling Calder’s Swann Memorial… Continue reading
The Grand Egyptian Museum: A Quarter Century in the Making | Architectural Record
With the completion of the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM), there would conventionally be a storm of celebration, paired with substantial coverage in the media for what is ostensibly one of the most significant projects of its time. Adopting over 100,000 archeological artifacts from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo… Continue reading
Calder Gardens, a Light-Filled Museum and Prairie, Houses the Sculptor’s Work in Philadelphia — Colossal
Alexander Calder’s most widely recognized creation is perhaps the mobile. The lauded artist was a titan of Modernism whose desire to “draw” three-dimensional objects spirited the invention of what went on to become both an art historical achievement and a ubiquitous nursery item. Broadly interested in movement and… Continue reading
The 25 Most Influential Magazine Covers of All Time – The New York Times
…Remnick: There are a lot of great New York magazine covers: There was the flood [and blackout, after Hurricane Sandy, in 2012], a simple helicopter photograph Soller: The Iwan Baan? That’s my favorite… Source: The 25 Most Influential Magazine Covers of All Time – The New York Times… Continue reading