Design
Sydney-based architects Felicity Stewart and Matthias Hollenstein of Stewart Hollenstein have won a hotly contested competition to design a new library and plaza for Sydney’s Green Square Town Centre.The competition received over 160 submissions from around...
Much has been said about Superkilen, but what it is exactly is hard to define. The kilometer-long expanse of color-blocked pinks, reds, and oranges in Copenhagen’s ethnically diverse Nørrebro neighborhood is part playground, part outdoor exhibition, part...
The tradition of the white cube emerged out of reverence for the artwork — static blank walls don’t detract from the main event — but how does one fill a space when the artwork is invisible? That was the challenge proposed to Diller Scofidio +...
LE PUY-SAINTE-RÉPARADE, France — Sited on a sun-flooded hillside in the middle of a renowned — and, now, organic — winery’s fields of grapes sits what may be France’s richest private collection of contemporary outdoor sculpture. Chateau La Coste, the winery...
Today is Valentine’s Day, the holiday that separates the world into two categories: those being reminded that they are happily in love, and those being reminded that they are woefully alone. Falling into the category of the former has its own pitfalls, namely...
On York Boulevard in Los Angeles’ trendy Highland Park neighborhood, city officials early held a ribbon-cutting ceremony early last week for the city’s newest park — or parklet, to be more precise. For those unfamiliar with the term, the difference...
SEOUL — Korea’s largest interior design event returns this year for its 19th edition. The Seoul Living Design Fair, which draws more than 150,000 visitors each year, will open from Feb. 27 to March 3 at Coex under the theme “New Family Scenery.”The event...
It’s no secret that designer Marc Newson has an interest in taking things off the ground: In 2007, he was tapped by the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS) to design a spaceship, and as Creative Director of Qantas, Newson designed the Qantas...
As the American International Fine Art Fair opens its 17th installment — smaller this time, with only 49 exhibitors compared to last year’s 65 — to the public today in West Palm Beach, Florida, visitors will be greeted with waterside...
Just last month, Janjaap Ruijssenaars of Netherlands-based Universe Architecture addressed the world with a modest proposal: to 3-D print an entire building in the shape of a Möbius strip, the mathematical form that conceptually consists of a single...
