Stone Garden by Lina Ghotmeh | Architectural Record
Damaged by the Beirut blast, a Lebanese architect’s new residential tower is a product of its highly charged context. Source: Stone Garden by Lina Ghotmeh | 2020-09-21 | Architectural Record… Continue reading
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Caracas WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 30, 12:30 PM PST A Series of live online conversations hosted by the University of British Columbia’s School of Architecture GREG GIRARD in conversation with IWAN BAAN This conversation will focus on Baan’s work on Torre David, a nearly-completed but abandoned 45-story office tower in Caracas, occupied… Continue reading
8 Must-Read Architecture and Design Books This Summer – Azure Magazine
National Museum of Qatar by Philip JodidioLast year saw a bumper crop of impressive museum unveilings — David Adjaye’s Ruby City in Texas, Addenda Architects’ Bauhaus Museum Dessau — but the most spectacular had to be the National Museum of Qatar. Jean Nouvel’s sprawling “desert rose,” an 11-gallery… Continue reading
Kiruna, Forever Changing
The forced relocation of the northernmost city in Sweden is more than a gigantic architectural project. It is also a test for a society at the crossroads. (Places Journal – Gideon Fink Shapiro) Another key work, Global Kiruna, tracks the journey of iron ore, via trains and… Continue reading
African Modernism by Manuel Herz and Iwan Baan [autographed] — Design Yard Sale
Get a copy of the now out of print and rare book African Modernism, or many other items at the Design Yard Sale. The Design Yard Sale is selling and auctioning creative works by designers to raise funds for the Bail Project and Colloqate… Continue reading
Virtual Vernissage: Kiruna Forever in 360° – ArkDes – Sweden’s National Centre for Architecture and Design
Broadcast from ArkDes, Sweden’s national centre for architecture and design, you’re invited to a 360° tour of the exhibition Kiruna Forever. Kiruna – a city in the northernmost part of Sweden – is experiencing one of the biggest urban transformation projects in recent history. The city is… Continue reading
The book TORRE REFORMA is a 50 Books | 50 Covers of 2019 winner
This survey of book design represents perhaps the longest-standing legacy in American graphic design. Beginning in 1923, the Fifty Books of the Year competition was a yearly mainstay of AIGA. As dust jackets became more common, covers were added to the competition. From 2012–2018 Design Observer… Continue reading
Wallpaper: Art in a virtual reality: the platforms bringing culture home
Got Your Back livens up the working from home environment With online business meetings surging in popularity, Dutch creative agency Staat has gathered a group of established and emerging creatives to create virtual backdrops, available to use for free in a wide range of video conference applications such as Zoom and… Continue reading
itsnicethat.com: Make your video call background much, much cooler with Got Your Back
The free platform features artwork donated by the likes of Iwan Baan, Lennard Kok, Timo Kuilder, Hugo & Marie and the Rijksmuseum, ranging from epic to calm, via the slightly creepy. Source: Make your video call background much, much cooler with Got Your Back… Continue reading
Bjarke Ingels Designs a Spiraling Museum for Luxury Watch Brand Audemars Piguet | Architectural Digest
Bjarke Ingels Group Completes a Spiraling Museum for Audemars PiguetIn Swiss town Le Brassus, the architect creates a surprising shape for the new Musée Atelier Audemars Piguet, which is tentatively slated to open to the public on June 25 Source: Bjarke Ingels Designs a Spiraling Museum for… Continue reading
Stone Garden, the mixed-use building by Lina Ghotmeh Architecture
Mona Fawaz and Cara Aramouny review the first project by Lina Ghotmeh in her home town. The building “embraces the city’s eclectic, layered morphologies and sets its new, elegant yet unassuming presence on them”. Source: Stone Garden, the mixed-use building by Lina Ghotmeh Architecture… Continue reading
Domus 1045 on newsstands: “In praise of beauty, in the face of crisis” – Domus
Pick up the latest issue of Domus Magazine with Lina Ghotmeh’s beautiful Stone Garden building in Lebanon In this issue: David Chipperfield meets Renzo Piano; Lina Ghotmeh Architecture’s Stone Garden in Lebanon; the work of British artist Rachel Whiteread and more. Browse the gallery and discover the contents… Continue reading