Amazing Aerial Images Showcase LA’s Devastating Wildfire Damage | Moss and Fog
Starting January 7th of 2025, wind-swept wildfires tore through the Los Angeles area, destroying more than 18,000 homes. We remember feeling utterly helpless watching it on the news, knowing how scary it must be to have your life and home at risk. Half a year later, the cleanup… Continue reading
Iwan Baan: The Notational Surface
Iwan Baan: The Notational Surface, Exhibition on view at the Rice School of Architecture, Houston September 3 to October 25, 2025. The Rice School of Architecture Gallery William T. Cannady Hall… Continue reading
Homeward Bound – Texas Architect Magazine
The opening section, “Life,” begins acclaimed photographer Iwan Baan’s documentary of SO-IL’s projects, which presents the theme of space as a series of experiential qualities. Subtle shifts in gloss and tone found across the photo-documentary sections highlight particular traits of the work. Capturing the approach to the projects from the… Continue reading
Good vibrations at the new Jacob’s Pillow dance theatre
Ted Shawn founded Jacob’s Pillow deep in the Berkshires, the rolling New England landscape that really does look oddly English, in 1933. His “Men Dancers”, an all-male dance troupe, performed in a barn and within a decade the entrepreneurial Shawn had built the first purpose-built theatre for dance… Continue reading
Art in All Directions: The Fenix Museum Is Changing How We Talk About Migration | Vogue
On the banks of Europe’s largest port—and at the former site of the continent’s first Chinatown—a gleaming double helix coils above a former warehouse in Rotterdam’s Katendrecht district. This sculptural staircase, designed by Chinese starchitect Ma Yansong of MAD Architects and dubbed the Tornado, anchors the newly opened… Continue reading
Reframing Rotterdam: Is Europe’s Largest Port Entering a Cultural Golden Age? | Ocula
Ocula looks at how a succession of new museums are spearheading a citywide cultural regeneration and cementing Rotterdam’s place on the European cultural map. Source: Reframing Rotterdam: Is Europe’s Largest Port Entering a Cultural Golden Age? | Ocula… Continue reading
A First Look At LACMA’s David Geffen Galleries
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) presented a first look of its new David Geffen Galleries to the press and museum members at the end of June. As designed by Atelier Peter Zumthor & Partners with Skidmore, Owings & Merrill collaborating, the addition to the museum’s… Continue reading
Photos reveal “uneven” destruction and rebuilding after LA fires
Taken from the air, Baan’s photographs showcase the extent of damage and the progress towards cleanup and decontamination taken in the months since the wildfires.Iwan Baan has photographed the aftermath of the 2025 Palisades Fire. Architect and UCLA adjunct professor Jeffrey Inaba, who collaborated with Baan and others… Continue reading
Mecanoo has designed a new theater for Jacob’s Pillow
In the 1930s, modern American dance was born on a rural farm property in the Berkshires in Western Massachusetts. Here, Ted Shawn and Ruth St. Denis founded the first professional dance company in the United States, and built the country’s first dance-specific theater. Known as Jacob’s Pillow, the property… Continue reading
Diller Scofidio + Renfro tops Al-Mujadilah Center and Mosque for Women with “field” of skylights
Diller Scofidio + Renfro designed Al-Mujadilah, a mosque and education center for women, on one of the last developable sites in Education City, a campus west of Doha, Qatar’s central business district. The religious structure is defined by its undulating roof, sturdy travertine walls, and modern minaret, which… Continue reading
David Geffen Galleries LACMA building by Peter Zumthor, Los Angeles – e-architect
Los Angeles, CA, 2025 – The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) announced that the public will be able to begin exploring multiple features of the new David Geffen Galleries in summer 2025, as the museum prepares for the April 2026 opening of this new home for its… Continue reading
LACMA Debuts New David Geffen Galleries – LAmag
On June 26, thousands of guests flocked to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s “First Look Reception” to view the newly constructed David Geffen Galleries. Visitors wandered through the building – not yet installed with art – to a soundtrack of music composed by bandleader and saxophonist Kamasi… Continue reading