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MAD Architects Reveal Designs for “Floating” Pingtan Art Museum
MAD Architects Reveal Designs for “Floating” Pingtan Art MuseumPublished: July 16, 2013MAD Architectsled by Ma Yansong have designed the Pingtan Art Museum, which resembles a floating island. Situated...
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Le Corbusier's Kaleidoscope: Looking at the Architect's Sense of Place
Le Corbusier's Kaleidoscope: Looking at the Architect's Sense of PlacePublished: July 17, 2013How does something very ordinary and banal, say a rock, become something extraordinary? If that rock were a...
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Prison Design and Its Consequences: The Architect's Dilemma
Prison Design and Its Consequences: The Architect's DilemmaPublished: July 17, 2013Throughout California’s prison system, 30,000 inmates participated in a July 9 hunger strike as a gesture of...
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Tate Britain Dramatically Rethinks Its Interior Spaces
Tate Britain Dramatically Rethinks Its Interior SpacesPublished: July 23, 2013LONDON — Tate Britain has unveiled further details of one of the most significant redevelopments in its history, which...
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Dyn-net: a Skyscraper Farm Design for Hong Kong
Dyn-net: a Skyscraper Farm Design for Hong KongPublished: July 24, 2013A proposal for skyscraper rice farming in Hong Kong won a citation from theFuturArc Prize 2013 eco-architecture design competition...
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“Chope!,” a Guide to Singapore’s Coffee Shop Culture
“Chope!,” a Guide to Singapore’s Coffee Shop CulturePublished: July 24, 2013SINGAPORE – In a local kopitiam, or coffee shop, the sing-song call of coffee shop assistants shouting out orders of kopi...
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Clash of the Titans: 5 Bouts of Big Art vs. Big Architecture
Clash of the Titans: 5 Bouts of Big Art vs. Big ArchitecturePublished: July 25, 2013When the Museum of Modern Art announced in April that it would demolish its next-door, Tod Williams Billie Tsien...
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Gehry Partners Unveil Design for National Art Museum of China
Gehry Partners Unveil Design for National Art Museum of ChinaPublished: July 25, 2013Gehry Partners recently unveiled its shortlisted proposal for the National Art Museum of China (NAMOC) in Beijing....
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SHOWS THAT MATTER: Surveying Richard Rogers, "Champion of Urban Life"
SHOWS THAT MATTER: Surveying Richard Rogers, "Champion of Urban Life"Published: July 29, 2013WHAT: “Richard Rogers: Inside Out”WHEN: Now through October 13WHERE: The Royal Academy of Arts, Burlington...
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10 Dystopic Visions of the Future as Told by Our Furniture
10 Dystopic Visions of the Future as Told by Our FurniturePublished: August 1, 2013Forsaking the vogue of the mid-century Don Draper aesthetic in favor of the sci-fi George Jetson look, New York think...
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MoMA's "Cut 'n' Paste" Charts the Visionary Power of Collage
MoMA's "Cut 'n' Paste" Charts the Visionary Power of CollagePublished: August 2, 2013The photo collage Mies van der Rohe submitted with his drawings for the 1910 Bismarck monument competition didn’t...
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Serpentine Sackler Gallery to Open in September
Serpentine Sackler Gallery to Open in September Published: August 5, 2013Architect Zaha Hadid has transformed a 19th century gunpowder store into a second home for the Serpentine Gallery, which will...
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Zaha Hadid Piques Preservationist Anger in Beijing and Belgrade
Zaha Hadid Piques Preservationist Anger in Beijing and BelgradePublished: August 7, 2013Patrik Schumacher, a principal designer at Zaha Hadid Architects and the chief ideologue of parametric design,...
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Design Miami/ Announces Its 2013 Lineup, With New Focus on Jewelry
Design Miami/ Announces Its 2013 Lineup, With New Focus on JewelryJust two months after its summer edition took Basel by storm, Design Miami/ has released the list of exhibitors for its winter...
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Top 5 Must-see Designs From Gwangju Biennale
Top 5 Must-see Designs From Gwangju BiennaleGWANGJU — The 5th Gwangju Design Biennaleopens September 6 with a lineup of 358 designers, whose works spread out over the biennale hall’s multi-storey...
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Zuzunaga's Pixelated World at 100% Design Singapore
Zuzunaga's Pixelated World at 100% Design SingaporeSINGAPORE – We're used to looking at digital images on the computer all day, but ever wanted to take a much closer look?Feast your eyes on textile...
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Iconic Sydney Opera House Interpreted in LEGO Blocks
Iconic Sydney Opera House Interpreted in LEGO BlocksThe LEGO Group has launched a new and highly detailed 2,989 piece model of the Sydney Opera House as part of their LEGO® Creator Expert range. Three...
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Versace Hotel in Macau to Show Chinese Flair
Versace Hotel in Macau to Show Chinese FlairSet to open in 2017, the planned Versace-themed hotel in Macau will be designed to appeal to Chinese customers said Versace and SJM.The Italian luxury...
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Lantern Made of 7,000 Plastic Bottles for Mid-Autumn Fest
Lantern Made of 7,000 Plastic Bottles for Mid-Autumn FestA 10-meter high lantern made of 7,000 plastic bottles is the winning design at this year’s Lantern Wonderland Design Competition the Hong Kong...
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The Pod: Formwerkz’s Designer Capsule Hotel
SINGAPORE – Today’s generation of budget travellers may not need a big space or too much privacy, but still want style and luxury, as Singapore architecture studio Formwerkz shows with its latest...
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