A first look inside LACMA’s Zumthor-designed David Geffen Galleries as museum hosts preview opening | News | Archinect
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art has revealed new photographs of its David Geffen Galleries. Designed by Peter Zumthor, with SOM as a collaborating architect, the building opened temporarily for a three-day preview last week and is due to open to the public in April 2026. Source:… Continue reading
Modern marvel or concrete ‘blob’? Inside LA’s divisive $700m art gallery | Art and design | The Guardian
Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s new building has been a decade in the making and has long vexed critics, but its CEO hopes to turn things around Source: Modern marvel or concrete ‘blob’? Inside LA’s divisive $700m art gallery | Art and design | The Guardian… Continue reading
Macao and the Portuguese Colonial Heritage in China
According to Wang Shu and Lu Wenyu, the main characteristic of the city is that it consists of ‘multiple cities, side by side’. The first Chinese Pritzker Prize winner in 2012 and the Chinese architect form the curatorial team of the small exhibition in Venice. In Macao, there are… Continue reading
Binnenkort: Iwan Baan in Museum Kranenburgh – Focus Magazine
In Momentum of Light focust de internationaal spraakmakende fotograaf Iwan Baan op een essentiële bron van leven en onmisbare factor voor het ervaren van de wereld om ons heen: het zonlicht. In 2021 maakt hij met de Burkinese architect en Pritzker Architecture Prize winnaar Francis Kéré een reis… Continue reading
Lancering van Volume 67 in Athenaeum Amsterdam
Fotograaf Iwan Baan presenteert zijn bijdrage aan Volume: een drieluik van de San Pietro in Rome en twee herinterpretaties ervan – een in Oudenbosch, en een in Yamoussoukro, Ivoorkust. Het werk toont de kracht van religieuze aanbidding aan de hand van de San Pietro, ongeacht de schaal. Source:… Continue reading
Bookshelf: Spring 2025
American Modern is not a guidebook; it’s a well-researched and highly readable monograph that explores the complex economic, political, and social backstory that’s usually missing from standard architectural narratives. It’s illuminating to learn, for instance, that the Miller family’s civic generosity was, as Shaw writes, “borne out of a wholly… Continue reading
Marina Tabassum’s 2025 Serpentine Pavilion Opens at Kensington Gardens | Architectural Record
The 2025 Serpentine Pavilion designed by Bangladeshi architect and educator Marina Tabassum and her firm, Marina Tabassum Architects, opens to the public in London this weekend. Named A Capsule in Time, it is the 25th structure in a series that began with a Zaha Hadid creation in 2000. Continue reading
„A Capsule in Time“ von Marina Tabassum
The 24th Serpentine Pavilion will open on 6 June 2025 in Serpentine South, Kensington Gardens, London. Bangladeshi architect Marina Tabassum and her firm, Marina Tabassum Architects (MTA), are responsible for this year’s design. “A Capsule in Time” aims to stimulate a dialogue between the permanence and transience of… Continue reading
From Zaha Hadid to today, 25 years of Serpentine Pavilions – Domus
Together with Marina Tabassum, architect of the Serpentine Pavilion 2025, we explored the meaning and history of this iconic temporary architecture which, since 2000 with Zaha Hadid, has attracted the attention of the whole world to Hyde Park in London every year. Source: From Zaha Hadid to… Continue reading
This year’s Serpentine Pavilion is extravagant and impressive — but where’s the fun?
Twenty-five years ago, Zaha Hadid designed a tent outside the Serpentine Gallery in London’s Kensington Gardens. Its white fabric roof was folded into a geometry of irregular triangles, swooping and lifting. It was quite a modest thing, a one-off commission for an acclaimed architect who had at that… Continue reading
Serpentine Pavilion 2025 is completed | Wallpaper
The new pavilion is ready for its public opening on 6 June; we toured the structure and spoke to its architect, Marina Tabassum Source: Serpentine Pavilion 2025 is completed; join our tour of it | Wallpaper… Continue reading
Marina Tabassum’s Serpentine Pavilion 2025 Explores Climate & Community
Architect Marina Tabassum’s 2025 Serpentine Pavilion is a meditation on shelter, climate and community—a place for gathering, reflection, and imagining new ways of being together in public space. Source: Marina Tabassum’s Serpentine Pavilion 2025 Explores Climate & Community… Continue reading