Tehran’s Argo Factory complex reinvents brewery architecture for the arts – Wallpaper
Argo Factory Contemporary Art Museum & Cultural Centre, the first hub of its kind to be built in Tehran in over 40 years, was completed and due to launch in 2020. Yet due to the pandemic and local political circumstances in Iran, it’s only now that the team behind it, Iranian-Austrian architect… Continue reading
Transparency Links Town and Gown at Columbia’s New Business School | 2022-03-01 | Architectural Record
Almost two decades after Columbia University first proposed a controversial expansion into the West Harlem neighborhood of Manhattanville, the Ivy League institution has opened two buildings for its business school on the 17-acre satellite campus. The completion of these latest Manhattanville structures—Henry R. Kravis Hall and David Geffen… Continue reading
Momentum of Light at the AA in London
Momentum of Light explores the interplay between natural sunlight, vernacular architecture and everyday life in the West African nation of Burkina Faso. The exhibition presents a series of images captured by Dutch photographer Iwan Baan during his travels with Burkinabè architect Francis Kéré through Burkina Faso in March 2020, during… Continue reading
Ida Panicelli on “The Hare with Amber Eyes” – Artforum
Conceived by architect Elizabeth Diller, along with the Jewish Museum’s Stephen Brown and Shira Backer in collaboration with the author, this Wunderkammer-like exhibition contains art, ephemera, personal effects, and photos belonging to the family that reconstruct the style of their residences in Paris and Vienna. It additionally features… Continue reading
Review of ‘Momentum of Light’ | 2022-02-09 | Architectural Record
Architect Francis Kéré revisits the paradoxical world of his childhood in Burkina Faso with photographer Iwan Baan, where pitch balck interiors contrast with an outdoors drenched in the sub-Saharan sun. Source: Review of ‘Momentum of Light’ | 2022-02-09 | Architectural Record… Continue reading
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