Un acuario tomado por la naturaleza: así será el Centro de Investigación del Mar de Cortés proyectado por Tatiana Bilbao en Mazatlán | EL PAÍS México

La arquitecta concibió el edificio como una “ruina” invadida por la vegetación. El proyecto busca crear un “espacio mediador” con el ecosistema, uno de los más diversos del mundo Source: Un acuario tomado por la naturaleza: así será el Centro de Investigación del Mar de Cortés proyectado… Continue reading

Prague is full of contradictions, says world-famous photographer Iwan Baan. His series Prague Diary will be exhibited at CAMP since May

Iwan Baan spends much of his life on the road. Once the world opened up to him as an adult, he started travelling and never stopped. It became his passion and his joy. The yearning to discover new places, experience diverse cultures and create visual narratives against a backdrop… Continue reading

Iwan Baan: Prague Diary

Exhibition at CAMP Prague, Iwan Baan: Prague Diary, 10/05 – 20/08 Through the center, the periphery, and the landscape along the Vltava River. It is a hot August day, the sidewalk burns, the air is heavy. The pulse of the city beats in a slow rhythm, the atmosphere is… Continue reading

Studio Gang and SCAPE Integrate Old and New, Building and Nature, at the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts | Architectural Record

After nearly 80 years of piecemeal growth encompassing eight additions and a multitude of styles, the Arkansas Arts Center had become an architectural jigsaw puzzle that was hard for visitors to navigate and disconnected from its setting in Little Rock’s MacArthur Park. So in 2016, it began… Continue reading

Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts launches its new design | Wallpaper

Blending old and new, the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts has just launched its undulating new design, courtesy of Jeanne Gang’s Chicago-based Studio Gang. The cultural institution, located in Little Rock, USA, has been undergoing a thorough reimagining and is now ready to celebrate its new home and… Continue reading

The New Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts Blossoms in Little Rock – ARTnews.com

At the unveiling of the new Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts (A/MFA), Executive Director Dr. Victoria Ramirez made something very clear, “While we are welcoming you to a new museum, this is not a new museum.” Source: The New Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts Blossoms in Little… Continue reading

Super Nintendo World is a visual feast of worldbuilding, nostalgia, and gamification

Like a lab rat who can’t shake his cocaine addiction, I mercilessly bashed my Power-Up Wristband™ against a golden question mark block to hear that familiar Mario coin sound. Joined by photographer Iwan Baan, who looked on in curious but loving horror, I bathed in the dopamine fountain… Continue reading

Museum of Art and Photography Aims to Connect With Its Local Community – ARTnews.com

Across from one of Bangalore’s largest green spaces, a box-shaped structure enveloped in embossed stainless-steel panels has recently risen up in the southern Indian city’s central district. Occupying some 44,000 square feet, the much-anticipated Museum of Art and Photography (MAP) is set to be India’s first major art… Continue reading

M+ museum is a handsome building in the political trenches

There was always going to be a lot to live up to with M+, Herzog & de Meuron’s recently completed contemporary art museum in Hong Kong. The complex sits at the center of the new West Kowloon Cultural District, nearly 100 acres of prime reclaimed bay land that… Continue reading

Iwan Baan – Encountering Hombroich – Museum Insel Hombroich

Iwan Baan – Encountering Hombroich 26 March 2023 – 13 August 2023 Friday–Sunday12:00 – 17:00 Rooms for Photography, Raketenstation Hombroich In the summer of 2022, the artist was a guest at Hombroich to photographically document the impressive walk-in sculptures of Erwin Heerich (1922-2004) on the occasion of his 100th birthday. The result… Continue reading

KOFFLER GALLERY PRESENTS THE WORLD PREMIERE EXHIBITION OF “THE SYNAGOGUE AT BABYN YAR: TURNING… – Artwire Press Release from ArtfixDaily.com

Today, the Koffler Gallery, in partnership with Swiss Architect Manuel Herz and Canadian historian and curator Robert Jan van Pelt, announce the world-premiere exhibition of The Synagogue at Babyn Yar: Turning the Nightmares of Evil into a shared Dream of Good. This international exhibition is brought together with… Continue reading

Step Inside a New York House Built Around a Boulder | Architectural Digest

The history of modern architecture is dotted with rocks. Albert Frey, Oscar Niemeyer, John Lautner—these legends and more have all thrilled to the constraints of igneous obstacles, embracing existing land masses as defining elements of their interiors. Continuing in this tectonic tradition is Christian Wassmann, a Swiss-born talent at the epicenter… Continue reading