Zaha Hadid
A few weeks ago, a bit of architecture news attracted an unusual amount of attention from the media. As renowned UK-based architect Zaha Hadid was seeing to the construction of her Wangjing Soho complex in Beijing — one of her 11 projects underway in China —...
Our most-talked-about stories in Visual Art, Design & Architecture, Fashion & Style, and Performing Arts, December 31, 2012 - January 4, 2013:ART— The deal to stop the perilous tumble down the fiscal cliff will have both positive and...
On October 30th, 2012, architect Lebbeus Woods passed away in his New York City apartment at the age of 72. Amid the haze of a disastrous hurricane, news of his death crept out somewhat discreetly over Twitter that morning. Those who recognized his name — the...
Zaha Hadid rarely does residential projects, but her name is about to blow up on the house scene. Roger Sanchez, the former Pratt architecture student now better known as a DJ, named his latest track after the architect who brought you Rome's troubled MAXXI...
Kenny Schachter, the outspoken force behind London's Rove Gallery, may be the man who has everything. Not only is his home brimming with a mouthwatering collection of works by his blue-chip artists — the Campana Brothers' plush alligator chair, an ...
Zaha and austerity are two words that don't exactly go hand in hand. But the recently knighted Dame Zaha Hadid gave her two cents on recession-era construction when speaking with Guardian deputy editor Kath Viner, asserting with characteristic confidence...
This week, the 43rd edition of Art Basel — and its attendent parties, events, and satellite fairs — has given the art world an eyeful. For those of us who couldn't make it to Switzerland, there are plenty of photos from the fairs. Herein we've gathered all...
Mid-century modernism did wonders for New York's Park Avenue back in its heyday. Case in point: Mies van der Rohe's Seagram Building and the neighboring Lever House by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. The two buildings were pioneers of high-end...
Alec Baldwin may be impressed by the Italian government's attitude towards arts funding — the actor testified on Capitol Hill about its virtues yesterday — but the board of directors at MAXXI (Rome's Museum of Twenty-First Century Art) is not. In a...
