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“In his own designing, Lee is the enemy of decoration, of effects, of anything that detracts or dist racts from the drama,” Mel Gussow wrote of Ming Cho Lee in American Theatre magazine. “The idea that theatergoers might actually applaud a set offends his scenic sensibility.” Yet, one could hardly ignore the striking stage designs Lee…
Architects and designers across the globe are rethinking the creative potential of shade for a new e nvironmental era.
The 50th anniversary of Expo 67 in Montreal is coming up next year, and architecture firms are takin g note. Expo 67, after all, was not an ordinary world fair: It still holds the record single-day attendance for a world fair with 569,500 visitors, and it introduced the world to such famous structures as the brutalist…
On June 24, The Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (MNBAQ) will open the doors to its newest bu ilding, the Pierre Lassonde Pavilion. Designed by Rem Koolhaas’s storied firm, OMA, the 48,900-square-foot (14,900-square-meter) Pierre Lassonde Pavilion nearly doubles the 83-year-old museum’s available exhibition space. OMA describes the structure as a “gateway”: an inviting, contemporary space…
The world was shocked last month by the untimely death of Zaha Hadid, one of the best-known and most highly regarded architects in the world. At the time of her death, her storied firm, Zaha Hadid Architects, had 36 ongoing projects in various stages of production. While Hadid may have left us, her work continues…
Soon after the Met Breuer was opened in the repurposed facilities of the Whitney Museum on Madison A venue — designed by its namesake Marcel Breuer in 1966 — another monument by the Bauhaus-trained architect faces possible demolition. Atlanta-Fulton Central Library; Photo Credit: Mary Ann Sullivan, Bluffton College The Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System Board of Trustees…
When one thinks of superrealism — or photorealism as it’s also called — the images that come to mind are usually unsettling. Whether it’s Chuck Close’s monumental portraits or John Baeder’s eerily vacant scenes of Middle America, superrealist art works by mining the uncanny valley, the space that opens when a representation is so faithful…
From a park stairway in San Francisco with an almost lenticular effect to a beautifully minimal gray ghost of a house in Italy, 15 projects were recognized last week for their outstanding use of tile or stone. Each was honored in the fifth annual Coverings Installation & Design (CID) Awards, which took place in Chicago…
Everyone who’s anyone is excited about the return of “Game of Thrones” on April 24, and Moleskine is no exception. The beloved Italian manufacturer of luxury notebooks is so excited, in fact, that it created an entire line of “Game of Thrones”–themed notebooks to coincide with the release of Season Six. Even better, as part…