My week in the art world – Europa in Marseille
22 August 2018 • Staff
We found ourselves reflecting on the fate of Europe whilst visiting the Domus Europa at MUCEM, Love at Musee d’art contemporaine and Le Corbusier’s Cite’ Radieuse.
Tag: Architecture
Why Mackintosh’s Glasgow School of Art should be left to rest in peace
30 July 2018 • Mark Westall
In the aftermath of the fire that ravaged Glasgow School of Art’s Mackintosh building in May 2014, I wrote that “restoring the art school to its original design will be impossible”. This was based on my detailed 1992 PhD study of the building, and an exploration of records of that time.
Alberta Pane gallery breaching the limits of architecture
1 July 2018 • Irene Machetti
For the fourth exhibition in its space in Venice, Alberta Pane gallery presented the collective show Extended Architecture. For the… Read More
Catalonia through 6000 fresnel lenses: RCR Arquitectes present Dream and Nature in Venice
25 May 2018 • Mark Westall
Rafael Aranda, Carme Pigem and Ramon Vilalta are the three architects behind RCR and are all set to unveil a highly sensory experience at the Catalonian pavilion in Venice:
World’s first energy positive hotel to launch by the Artic Circle
12 February 2018 • Mark Westall
World´s first energy positive hotel concept by the Arctic Circle, with 360° view of the Svartisen glacier and arctic nature to launch.
The Top 7 Art Exhibitions to see in London this week 04/02/18
4 February 2018 • Tabish Khan
Ruins, Georgian architecture, water filled sculpture, a skyline cut in half, atmospheric domesticity, the underworld and art in a hospital.
The Top 9 Art Exhibitions to see this week in London
18 June 2017 • Tabish Khan
Japanese architecture, Pieta, ghostly ships, spinning smartphones, a diverse artist, electricity, a skip, guns and students.
How down-at-heel Lisbon became the new capital of cool
5 June 2017 • Syndicate
Four years ago, Portugal’s capital felt like a ‘city on its knees’. Now it is being touted as hip, cheap and innovative. But is the socialist government failing Lisbon’s poor in its rush to revitalise?
Beirut to build new modern art museum
13 October 2016 • Mark Westall
BeMA – Beirut Museum of Art – will feature 124-metre tower, with 1,000 works forming basis of first exhibition in 2020
Herzog & de Meuron’s New Tate Modern Masterpiece opens to public
18 June 2016 • Lee Sharrock
Yesterday Tate Modern will open the doors to their new extension, a temple to Brutalist architecture with vast concrete galleries and sweeping staircases designed to transport the anticipated hordes of art-lovers on a globe-trotting journey through contemporary art.
Wolfgang Buttress’s The Hive opens at Kew
18 June 2016 • Staff
The Hive by Nottingham-based artist Wolfgang Buttress has been installed at the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew. The 17m-high structure was originally built for Milan Expo 2015, where it represented the UK and won the Best Pavilion award
Pablo Bronstein: Historical Dances in an Antique Setting
19 May 2016 • Staff
The latest artist to undertake Tate Britain’s Duveen commission is Pablo Bronstein.
Serpentine pavilion ‘unzipped’: first look at Bjarke Ingels’ design
25 February 2016 • Mark Westall
The Danish architect offers a sculptural space ‘like a mountain of ice cubes’ stretching across the London gallery’s lawn, to be complemented by four radical summer houses
Council rejects plans to turn London car park into 800 artists’ studios
11 November 2015 • Mark Westall
Southwark opts for rival proposal from Mayfair-based property developer that includes only 50 artists’ spaces in Peckham multistorey
Historic power station, situated on the banks of the Moskva river to be converted into a new venue for contemporary arts and culture
21 October 2015 • Mark Westall
Renzo Piano Building Workshop to redesign 2 hectares of the city, converting a historic power station, situated on the banks of the Moskva river, into a new venue for contemporary arts and culture.
REVIEW: Damien Hirst’s Newport Street Gallery is a grown-up gem that shows he’s sobered with age
8 October 2015 • Mark Westall
Caruso St John architects have conjured an immaculate new home for the art prankster’s collection in an unlikely south London setting – and there’s not a diamond skull or formaldehyde animal in sight
Lift-off ! My 90-second ride into the future of virtual reality
22 September 2015 • Mark Westall
The man who put the 3D visual magic into Harry Potter has set his sights on the future of everything – from ‘experiential branding’ to training surgeons. Our critic lifts off at the London design festival
Listen to an open debate on International architecture and Italian design and eat great Italian food.
15 September 2015 • Mark Westall
“Interni Design Aperitivo”: a series of talks that compare, in an open debate, international architectural projects and the italian design manufacturing industry, in partnership with Salone del Mobile.Milano, the world’s leading furniture and design fair.
Broward Center sees the light
24 June 2015 • Staff
Benjamin C Thompson, the multi-venue theatre and entertainment complex is one of the most popular theatre venues in the States thanks to its beautiful setting and diverse range of theatrical, entertainment and event offerings.
What happens to the Serpentine pavilions? Beach cafe, billionaire’s retreat, wedding marquee……
18 June 2015 • Mark Westall
Everyone from Ai Weiwei and Frank Gehry to Zaha Hadid has designed a folly for the Serpentine gallery, but what happens to these starchitect baubles after their summer in the sun?
The forgotten masterpieces of African modernism
12 March 2015 • Mark Westall
In the 1960s and 70s, countries across Africa celebrated their independence with astonishingly avant-garde architecture. Oliver Wainwright reports on a fascinating attempt to chronicle this forgotten history
• Afro modernism: Africa’s avant-garde architecture boom – in pictures
Hello world: The New Whitworth Art Gallery
13 February 2015 • Mark Westall
Manchester’s Whitworth gallery was never the most welcoming building. But a £15m revamp has breathed new air and light into the venerable institution
100’s of Up-cycled shipping containers to create POP Brixton London’s first self-sufficient ‘mini city’
23 January 2015 • Mark Westall
An answer to the ever increasing cost of studio space?
REVIEW: Constructing Worlds @ Barbican Art Gallery
28 September 2014 • Tabish Khan
Photography and architecture are inextricably linked.