In 2013, Ugo Rondinone’s 20-foot stone figures took over Rockefeller Plaza. In 2016, his 35-foot towers of fluorescent-colored boulders landed in the Las Vegas desert, and now this month at Gladstone Gallery in New York,… Read More »Solid Lightning: Ugo Rondinone’s Stunning New Sculpture
Bright red curving forms and cubic volumes form Haus 2+, a mixed-use building that architecture studio Office ParkScheerbarth has added to a compact riverside site in Berlin. Located in Holzmarkt 25, a former lumber port… Read More »Office ParkScheerbarth adds bright red-timber building to compact Berlin site
Chinese studio Neri&Hu has designed the Sanya Wellness Retreat hotel on the Chinese island of Hainan, with public spaces arranged around a central water courtyard. Located in Haitang Bay, Neri&Hu designed two L-shaped buildings with wood-clad upper levels… Read More »Neri&Hu wraps South China Sea wellness retreat around “water courtyard”
Design student Willem Zwiers has salvaged second-hand books and used them to form a small furniture collection, currently on show at the Design Academy Eindhoven graduate show at Dutch Design Week. Under the title Transformed… Read More »Willem Zwiers melds second-hand books together to form marbled furniture
Known for a string of boundary-pushing projects, Japanese architect Junya Ishigami discusses his unusual approach to designing buildings in this exclusive interview. Ishigami’s surreal work often challenges fundamental ideas of what a building is –… Read More »“I don’t want to make crazy buildings” says Junya Ishigami
Rammed earth walls and an organic colour scheme help this South African family lodge designed by architecture practice Studio Asaï to blend into its natural surroundings. Tembo Tembo sits close to the Sabie River on… Read More »Tembo Tembo lodge hides among landscape of South African game reserve