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It began with a pair of tights and two rings. It will become the world's largest public art project: five huge sculptures dotted around a region attempting to rejuvenate itself.
The Tees Valley Giants, unveiled today, are the work of Turner prize-winning artist Anish Kapoor and one of the world's leading structural engineers, Cecil Balmond. The pieces will be placed, over the next ten years, in Middlesbrough, Stockton, Redcar, Hartlepool and Darlington. read more »
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The Tees Valley Giants, unveiled today, are the work of Turner prize-winning artist Anish Kapoor and one of the world's leading structural engineers, Cecil Balmond. The pieces will be placed, over the next ten years, in Middlesbrough, Stockton, Redcar, Hartlepool and Darlington. read more »
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If Westerners feel dazed and confused upon exiting the plane at the new international airport terminal here, it’s understandable. It’s not just the grandeur of the space. It’s the inescapable feeling that you’re passing through a portal to another world, one whose fierce embrace of change has left Western nations in the dust.
The sensation is comparable to the epiphany that Adolf Loos, the Viennese architect, experienced when he stepped off a steamship in New York Harbor more than a century ago. He had crossed a threshold into the future; Europe, he realized, was now culturally obsolete. read more »
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The sensation is comparable to the epiphany that Adolf Loos, the Viennese architect, experienced when he stepped off a steamship in New York Harbor more than a century ago. He had crossed a threshold into the future; Europe, he realized, was now culturally obsolete. read more »
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It took some detective work--and a little urban archaeology--but the results should dispel one of the enduring myths of Chicago architecture. At the same time, they will reveal the bejeweled Tiffany dome of the Chicago Cultural Center not as many Chicagoans remember it, but as Louis Comfort Tiffany imagined it.
The Tiffany dome, in the Preston Bradley Hall at the south end of the Cultural Center, has been undergoing a six-month, $2.2 million restoration that will be unveiled early next month.
In a global city where architecture is a constantly evolving art form on an ever grander scale, the Tiffany dome is more of a cherished family heirloom, one that nearly got tossed in the rubbish, read more »
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The Tiffany dome, in the Preston Bradley Hall at the south end of the Cultural Center, has been undergoing a six-month, $2.2 million restoration that will be unveiled early next month.
In a global city where architecture is a constantly evolving art form on an ever grander scale, the Tiffany dome is more of a cherished family heirloom, one that nearly got tossed in the rubbish, read more »
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The design calls for an exciting new cultural centre in the new Seven Pearls district of Dubai. This landmark development will accommodate an opera house, playhouse, arts gallery, performing arts school and themed hotel on an island in Dubai Creek just off the mainland part of the district. All of these facilities will be state of the art to host world class performances and exhibitions. The opera house will have a seating capacity of 2,500 while the playhouse will have a seating capacity of 80
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The problem with the RIBA Awards is that they're decided at a regional level. Which means that if you're building in London, where a lot of big and interesting stuff is built (just look at T5), you're significantly less likely to get an award than in Northern Ireland, where less stuff is built. And obviously, it looks bad if there's a region with no awards at all.
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"The Cleveland Institute of Art's dream of building an iconic new studio building designed by the leading Dutch architect Winy Maas has hit a financial wall. The art institute decided to scale back after a recent estimate showed that the design would cost "well north" of the $55 million budgete
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Five centuries after the artist signed the contract to decorate the Pope's personal chapel in the Vatican with scenes from the book of Genesis, the true story of how Michelangelo came to create one of his greatest works can be told.
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It is not yet quite as broken down as London Bridge, not yet the subject of a nursery rhyme, but the roof is leaking, the masonry crumbling and, to put it in the human terms of an old man with a prostate problem and an arthritic spine, it needs more than a strategic bucket and a zimmer frame to kee
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Canada's Governor General's Medals for excellence in architecture were announced this week, with structures in Vancouver, Winnipeg, and east Toronto being recognized.
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A jury of six members today announced that Zaha Hadid, London, has won the architectural competition to develop a design for a proposed museum in Vilnius, . The architectural competition is part of a feasibility study undertaken by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and The State Hermitage Museum
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