Designs

‘611 west 56th street’, the first project in with a sculpture designed by alvaro siza; a fitness room; yoga and boxing rooms; a children’s playroom; a media room with billiards table; and private living and dining rooms for residents. project info: name: 611 west 56th streetdesign architect: álvaro siza vieiraproject manager: álvaro fonsecainterior design: gabellini …

design team –
(NL architects) pieter bannenberg, kamiel klaasse, walter van dijk, thijs van bijsterveldt, florent le corre, sören grünert, iwan hameleers, sybren hoek,
kirsten hüsig, mathieu landelle, zhongnan lao, barbara luns, gert jan
machiels, sarah möller, gerbrand van oostveen, giulia pastore, guus peters,
jose ramon vives, laura riaño lopez, arne van wees, zofia wojdyga, gen
yamamoto with christian asbo, …

snøhetta announces its success in a recent competition to design the xingtai grand theater in china. the winning project, which forms part of a new masterplan for the hebei province, intends to create a new cultural beacon for the rapidly modernizing city of xingtai. combining contemporary architecture with ancient eastern chinese philosophy, the first-prize scheme …

carroll spinney, the legendary puppeteer who played big bird and oscar the grouch on sesame street for almost 50 years has died age 85 at his home in connecticut, after living with dystonia for some time. ‘caroll was an artistic genius whose kind and loving view of the world helped shape and define sesame street …

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the prado museum in madrid has collaborated with the world wildlife fund (WWF) to transform paintings from its collection on the occasion of the 2019 UN climate change conference. a series of masterpieces have been digitally modified to reflect a future world destroyed by climate change, including rising sea levels, barren rivers, and refugee camps. …

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in her series ‘berlin’, artist diane meyer has hand-sewn 43 photographs with embroidered elements that represent the former wall dividing the city. the series, titled ‘berlin’, overlays various elements in the images with each section of embroidery illustrating where the divide would have bisected or blocked views. the images are from a series of hand-embroidered …

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