London Design Festival: Medals for David Adjaye and Kenneth Grange
British architect and designer David Adjaye won the 2016 Panerei London Design Medal today. The news comes only days before the opening of his latest project, the National Museum of African American...
View ArticleDavid Adjaye: Building on History
On a plot of land with a complicated and violent history, the architect David Adjaye is realizing a dream project. At the end of this month, he will open the National Museum of African American History...
View ArticleTop 5 High-Rise Buildings 2016: The International Highrise Award Finalists
New York and Singapore take center-stage at this year’s International Highrise Award, a biannually celebrated architecture trophy hosted by the city of Frankfurt am Main in Germany.Geographically...
View ArticleLatrobe Design in Focus at Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
Philadelphia Museum of Art is hosting an exhibition titled 'Classical Splendor: Painted Furniture for a Grand Philadelphia House', on view through January 1, 2017.The exhibition showcases a suite of...
View ArticleRIBA Charles Jencks Award for Architecture 2016 Goes to Níall McLaughlin
London-based architect Níall McLaughlin is the winner of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA)’s 2016 Charles Jencks Award, an architecture prize annually given to an individual architect or...
View ArticleDeparture: Vienna Architekturzentrum’s Farewell Exhibition for Dietmar Steiner
Vienna’s Architekturzentrum (AZW) is biding its retiring Founding Director Dietmar Steiner farewell this fall, with an exhibition dedicated to failure and new beginnings in architecture. Irritating as...
View ArticleThe 3D Printing Revolution Celebrated in German Show
3D printing technology is rapidly revolutionizing many things, from visual arts to industrial design, and from medical engineering to space travel. A new exhibition at the Red Dot Design Museum in...
View ArticleBrazilian Architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha to Receive Royal Gold Medal
2016 is proving a triumphant year for Brazilian architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha. Only weeks after having received the Praemium Imperiale, Japan’s most prestigious prize for international artists,...
View Article10 Things to See and Do at Vienna Design Week
Vienna Design Week kicks off this weekend in the Austrian capital with a bustling program in celebration of its 10th anniversary. Festival director Lilli Hollein and her team have organized around 150...
View ArticleSneak Peek: What to See at PAD London 2016
The PAD London art and design fair returns for its 10th anniversary edition in 2016 from October 3-9 at its landmark location of Berkeley Square in Mayfair with a lineup of 66 prominent international...
View ArticleBIG and Zaha Hadid Among Aga Khan Award for Architecture Winners 2016
The winners of the 2016 Aga Khan Award for Architecture were announced in Abu Dhabi this week. Six projects in five countries have made it to the final round, from Bjarke Ingels Group’s multiethnic...
View ArticleAmanda Levete Designed MAAT Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology Opens...
One of this fall’s most anticipated highlights, Lisbon’s MAAT–Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology officially opens its doors to the public on October 5, with a grand program organized under the...
View ArticleDamien Hirst’s Newport Street Gallery Wins 2016 RIBA Stirling Prize for the...
Damien Hirst’s Newport Street Gallery in London, designed by Caruso St John Architects has won the 2016 RIBA Stirling Prize as best new building—one of the most prestigious architectural accolades in...
View ArticleUnsettling Truths: MoMA Confronts Global Refugee Crisis in New Exhibition
“Insecurities: Tracing Displacement and Shelter,” a new exhibition at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, is confronting one of the most pressing global emergencies: the current refugee crisis, presented...
View ArticleFirst View: Impressions from the New Statue of Liberty Museum Design on Ellis...
The Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation (SOLEIF) and the National Park Service/U.S. Department of the Interior unveiled plans for the museum on Ellis Island in New York Harbor last week. The new...
View ArticleDatebook: ‘Beauty< Immortality’ Installation to be Unveiled at Piccadilly...
Art on the Underground — Transport for London’s official art programme — is going to unveil “Beauty< Immortality” at the Piccadilly Circus Station on November 7.“Beauty< Immortality” is a...
View ArticleUnderstanding Excellence: Flemish Architecture Featured in Frankfurt Show
Contemporary architecture in the so-called “Low Countries”—Flanders and the Netherlands—takes center stage in the new show at DAM Deutsches Architekturmuseum Frankfurt. The region has a long tradition...
View ArticleGabriel Orozco’s Permanent Garden at South London Gallery
South London Gallery has opened a new permanent garden designed by Gabriel Orozco on October 1, 2016.The Garden has been created by the artist over the last two years with the support from 6a...
View ArticleNew London Design Museum Announces Opening Show with OMA, Hussein Chalayan,...
The countdown for the new Design Museum in Kensington is well under way: on November 24 the institution is scheduled to open in its new home in the former Commonwealth Institute on High Street...
View ArticleOpen House New York Celebrates Cultural Exchange with New Format
Open House New York, the annual weekend of open doors to some of the city’s most eminent and sites and spaces, presents a new format this year: “City of Cultural Exchange”, a curated selection of 10...
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