LACMA shares images of Zumthor-designed David Geffen Galleries building

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) has announced building previews, new artworks, and public programming at the much anticipated Peter Zumthor–designed venue: Museum members can have a look-see this upcoming week. Musician Kamasi Washington kicked things off with a concert just a few days ago. Source:… Continue reading

Los Angeles County Museum of Art reveals new David Geffen Galleries, designed by Peter Zumthor. | Artsy

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art has unveiled its new David Geffen Galleries, designed by Swiss architect Peter Zumthor. The long-awaited building replaces four previous museum structures and spans Wilshire Boulevard with a single elevated, glass-and-concrete venue. Major construction concluded in late 2024, and LACMA plans to… Continue reading

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