Sydney Modern opens in Australia | Wallpaper
Sydney Modern opens its doors this week, following its contemporary and considered transformation by Japanese architecture studio SANAA. In an in-depth story published in our November 2022 issue, curator Kate Goodwin reported from the site, offering a sneak peek at what the Art Gallery of New South Wales… Continue reading
At OMA’s Taipei Performing Arts Center, Building as Public Performance | Architectural Record
Three mute volumes float above the city, promising new possibilities for theater By Izzy Kornblatt The architect Kazuo Shinohara once observed that some of the most advanced machines in the world—fighter jets and spacecraft—do not conform to refined modern aesthetics. Their parts appear “clumsily joined together,” he… Continue reading
SANAA-Designed Expansion of Sydney’s Main Art Museum Opens | Architectural Record
Architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, of Pritzker Prize-winning SANAA, have taken this vision to heart with their expansion to AGNSW—a 180,000-square-foot stand-alone building, set to open to the public on December 3rd. Comprising a series of interlocking pavilions, the volumes fan down a site that slopes from the… Continue reading
Move over Sydney Opera House – there’s a new superstar in town | Architecture | The Guardian
Sydney Modern has been called the most significant cultural addition to the Australian city for 50 years. So how does the airy cascade of new galleries measure up? We take a tour of the A$344m project Julian Worrall – Mon 28 Nov 2022 22.30 GMT43 More than almost any other… Continue reading
New photographs mark the 50th anniversary of Learning from Las Vegas
Commissioned to mark this milestone, Baan’s photographs—on view at the American Academy in Rome, where Baan is the institution’s 2023 Richard Grubman and Caroline Mortimer Photographer in Residence—record his wandering eye as it traverses the landscapes of the twinned environments. Seen side by side, the eternal city and… Continue reading
Peninsula House, Antiparos, is a modern response to heritage | Wallpaper
Peninsula House, Atelier Bow-Wow’s latest collaboration with design-led property developer Oliaros, is a free-flowing, art-filled holiday home on the Greek island of Antiparos One word keeps coming up when Atelier Bow-Wow’s Yoshiharu Tsukamoto and property developer and entrepreneur Iasson Tsakonas discuss their latest venture: timeless. The project is… Continue reading
Sou Fujimoto Piles Up Glass Boxes for a Flexible Learning Space in Switzerland | Architectural Record
Nestled in a verdant valley between the mighty Alps and the calm of Lake Constance, St. Gallen is famed for its abbey—now a UNESCO World Heritage site—around which the town grew up. During the Reformation, there was a split, the townsfolk turning Protestant while the monks… Continue reading
A giant inflatable Koons, a desert mirror illusion and a giant football goal: seven of the best new sculptures in Qatar
From a giant inflatable sea creature by Jeff Koons to Olafur Eliasson’s installation of mirrored shelters in the desert, the run-up to the Fifa World Cup 2022 in Qatar has the small Gulf state busy unveiling a raft of ambitious public art commissions.In a… Continue reading
Louis Kahn’s Kimbell Art Museum turns 50
The Kimbell Art Museum opened to the public 50 years ago on October 4,1972. It has now existed for almost eight times longer than it it took its architect, Louis I. Kahn, to conceive and construct the building, from 1966 to 1972, though one might easily… Continue reading
In Pictures: See the Monumental Public Art Installed Across the Qatari Landscape Ahead of the World Cup Games | Artnet News
The country has unveiled more than 100 works by some of the world’s most celebrated artists. Source: In Pictures: See the Monumental Public Art Installed Across the Qatari Landscape Ahead of the World Cup Games | Artnet News… Continue reading
Olafur Eliasson Shadows travelling on the sea of the day | HYPEBEAST
“It is a kind of reality check of your connectedness to the ground,” Eliasson said in a statement. “You are at once standing firmly on the sand and hanging, head down, from a ground that is far above you. You will probably switch back and forth between a… Continue reading
Olafur Eliasson’s Round Mirror Set up Embeds Viewers within the Solar-Baked Qatari Panorama – Live Theatre UK
Wanting up additionally means trying down and sideways within the newest set up by artist Olafur Eliasson (previously). Opened this week on the Northern Heritage websites close to Doha, Qatar, a cluster of enormous mirrors and rings manufactured from metal and fiberglass stand on the dry desert panorama amongst shrubs… Continue reading