Architectural Digest
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Architectural Digest
To Kundig, there is no distinction in the process to create projects of different typologies. "When you approach a large project or a small project, you are approaching it from the same basis: You are making a place for human beings to be human, which means that you have the same sort of value system that is working its way through these projects," the architect says.
On a sunny June day on New York's Long Island, Korean artist Lee Ufan was on a geological mission. Backhoe standing by, he visited two quarries to hunt for the 15 boulders he would borrow for his latest commission, "Lee Ufan: Open Dimension," at the Hirshhorn Museum.
"This was the last piece of the jigsaw," says Mike Tonkin, from the sunroom of his London townhouse's final extension. In 1998, when he and his wife, Anna Liu, were looking to settle in the city after a stint in Hong Kong, they saw more than 220 properties before a top-floor maisonette in a Grade II-listed townhouse in Islington caught their attention.
The Art Story
Where does the real end and the surreal begin? You could spend hours staring at Hieronymous Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights, pondering this question. And one modern artist did just that, before her mind went on a strange journey. The famous fourteenth century painting is full of tiny figures
"I like, you may say, the glitter and color that comes from the mouth, and I've always hoped in a sense to be able to paint the mouth like [Claude] Monet painted a sunset." -Francis Bacon Postwar Irish painter Francis Bacon (1909-1992) is infamous for his detailed depictions of figures' mouths, often wide open and screaming.
Imagine downtown New York City in the 1970s. Yes, it's gritty and salacious. And sure, it's probably not the best idea to head further east than 1st Avenue at night. But the city is also a hub of creative energy. Counterculture rules Greenwich Village and avant-garde artists, like Chris Burden,
Architizer
Marc Fornes of THEVERYMANY is known for his fantastical, algorithm-generated architecture, which continually redefines the possibilities for built space. As ...
"Wouldn't the city be better if each citizen had a little bit of park woven into their life, their incidental life?" Charles McKinney, principal urban design...
Next week, modernist architect Eileen Gray will receive her first cinematic recognition for years of prolific contribution to 20th-century design. Studies on...
Art in America Magazine
Summer shows of artworks by Janet Cardiff, Adrián Villar Rojas and Patti Smith will celebrate ongoing post-Superstorm Sandy recovery on New York's Rockaway peninsula, in the borough of Queens.
Otto Piene, German artist and co-founder of the postwar art group Zero, died July 17 in Berlin at 86. The cause of death has not been revealed. Piene is known for his technology-based artworks, which often used light in kinetic sculptures. He lived and worked between Düsseldorf and Groton, Mass.
Metropolitan Museum of Art president Emily Rafferty, 65, will retire in spring 2015, after 11 years in the position and nearly 40 years at the New York museum. Rafferty began her career with the Met as a development department administrator in 1976.
Architect's Newspaper
Last fall, new data revealed that Bank of America Tower at One Bryant Park, revered since its 2010 opening as one of the most sustainable skyscrapers in the world, is actually a bigger energy hog than similar New York City buildings.
RKLA redesigns a Rockaways landscape for resiliency.
Facebook has chosen architect Frank Gehry to design the interiors of its relocated and expanded international offices in London and Dublin. This commission comes just a few weeks after Gehry was hired with Foster + Partners for the London Battersea Power Station redevelopment, his first project in the United Kingdom capital.