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Revisiting NOWNESS’s special series “In Residence” leads us to Xavier Corbero’s maze-like house. The Catalan sculptor’s home in Esplugues de Llobregat, a town on the outskirts of Barcelona, is a treasure cove of art and antiques. Among objects of all kinds, his sculptures stand tall, as they do in many museums around the world. Xavier…
The melancholic streets of Tianducheng serves as the backdrop for xx’s apocalyptic beats and lamenti ng melodies.
Faced with the restoration of a tower built in the 13th century by the Arabs of the Nazari kingdom, architects Mercedes Miras Varelas and Luis Castillo Villegas bring a historical building back to life and design a distinctive extension to respect traits of the existing structure. Set on the edge of a cliff in the…
In a video series realized in collaboration with Architizer, Dezeen sat down with Amanda Levete to d iscuss her “all-time favorite building” by the late architect Zaha Hadid: the BMW Building. To Levete, the BMW Building is most representative of “Zaha’s strong preoccupation and obsession with the scale of large infrastructure projects.” The building, located in…
In continuation with a video series honoring the great Zaha Hadid — who passed away unexpectedly on March 31 of this year at age 69 — Architizer met with Danish architect Bjarke Ingels, who discusses his discovery of Hadid’s early paintings and first projects. “I started studying architecture in 1993 and of course stumbled upon…
Redsquare Productions traveled to Aspen, Colorado, to walk through Shigeru Ban’s Aspen Art Museum an d learn how the project came to fruition from an explorative collaboration between the Japanese architect and the museum’s director, Heidi Zuckerman. Completed in 2014, the museum is an homage to the architecture and picturesque landscapes of the Western USA as…
In a series of conversations with prominent architects, Dezeen — in collaboration with Architizer — explores the memories of those involved in the late Zaha Hadid’s career, highlighting some of her most spectacular projects. In this brief interview, Richard Rogers looks back on Zaha’s persistence when she proposed and successfully built the London Aquatics Centre…
Updated by Paul Keskeys, June 10th 2016. Today marks a big moment for soccer fans, as Euro 2016 kick s off in Paris with the showpiece match between the hosts and Romania at the Stade de France. However, for the most stunning arena of the event, architectural enthusiasts must look further south, to the port city…
In many ways, the Price tower feels like a piece of Manhattan awkwardly plopped down in the middle o f Oklahoma.