Xposure puts 57 world-class photographers in the frame for 2022 edition
Xposure 2022 brings award-winning photographers of architecture to an annual photography exhibition in Sharjah this February High end to handmade homes Majid Abdalla Al Bastaki, an architectural photographer born and raised in Sharjah, will showcase images that capture the culture, art and beauty of the emirate while Dutch photographer… Continue reading
Site Verrier de Meisenthal by SO – IL and FREAKS | 2022-02-01 | Architectural Record
Thanks to its abundant forests, water, and sand, the Pays de Bitche, in the Moselle département of France, has long been a center for glassmaking. Initially a nomadic activity, glass production in the region began to settle at fixed sites in the 18th century, and the Meisenthal glassworks,… Continue reading
The Innovative Brooklyn Architects Paving the Way for a New Generation | Architectural Digest
Thirteen years into their experimental practice, the architects behind SO–IL have hit their stride Source: The Innovative Brooklyn Architects Paving the Way for a New Generation | Architectural Digest… Continue reading
Read “Dig it!” a Book on Architecture Embedded in Earth
Whether you are looking for the perfect gift for an architecture lover or just for a new architecture book for yourself, one publication makes for great reading. Titled Dig It! Building Bound to the Ground, the book explores the inventive designs of architecture embedded in the earth. The work,… Continue reading
At the Jewish Museum, “The Hare With Amber Eyes” exhibition illuminates the story of Edmund de Waal – The Washington Post
At the Jewish Museum, an exhibition as much about what’s missing as what’s there The Ephrussis were among the wealthiest families in Europe. Almost everything was taken from them by the Nazis. Even as the exhibition presents a version of this story, it does its best to… Continue reading
A Hare and an Inheritance, Once Hidden, at the Jewish Museum – The New York Times
In his best seller “The Hare With Amber Eyes,” the writer and ceramicist Edmund de Waal traces the journey of his Jewish family and their art collection from the late 19th century to the 21st. The book combines history and memoir with a kind… Continue reading
Malibu House in California by Michael Maltzan Architecture | 2021-12-15 | Architectural Record
Michael Maltzan designs a sculptural house in Malibu to accommodate an art collection. Source: Malibu House in California by Michael Maltzan Architecture | 2021-12-15 | Architectural Record… Continue reading
The Hare with Amber Eyes at the Jewish Museum — ghosts of a lost world | Financial Times
In the end, this show isn’t about possessions but about absence and loss. The photographer Iwan Baan recently returned to the former Ephrussi headquarters and shot their current state. In Paris, an aesthete’s Eden is now a den of generic white offices; the aristocracy of taste and money has given… Continue reading
Q+A: ‘Dig It!’ Co-Author Bjarne Mastenbroek on Why Architects Should Build With the Earth | Architect Magazine
The nearly 1,400-page survey, by Mastenbroek and photographer Iwan Baan, focuses on projects “connected to the rest of the ecosystem we have.” A decade ago, Bjarne Mastenbroek, founder and director of the Amsterdam-based firm SeARCH, and Dutch architectural photographer Iwan Baan began work on a study… Continue reading
2022 Works of Wonder: Ca’n Terra | Architectural Digest
Ca’n Terra by Ensamble Studio in Menorca, Spain Husband-and-wife architects Antón García-Abril and Débora Mesa, of Madrid- and Boston-based Ensamble Studio, have taken adaptive reuse to new heights—and depths. Their Ca’n Terra (“House Belonging to the Earth” in Catalan) carves a residence… Continue reading
Luma Arles is a towering achievement for Frank Gehry | Financial Times
The new arts centre in the south of France unites Roman ruins, Van Gogh’s art and 21st-century technology You can’t see Frank Gehry’s new building from the Old Town area of Arles, a dense, walled network of Roman streets and medieval alleys. It seems odd, then, that this… Continue reading
Argo Factory: Contemporary Art Museum & Cultural Centre by Ahmadreza Schricker Architecture – North | 2021-11-22 | Architectural Record
Enriched with historic houses and old buildings turned into vibrant coffee shops and new galleries, revitalized parts of Tehran are responding to an emerging generation of artists and art seekers looking for spaces to gather, socialize, and create. Argo Factory: Contemporary Art Museum & Cultural Centre is one… Continue reading