World-famous artist, activist, and provocateur Ai Weiwei is currently exhibiting stunning new work at two different galleries in New York that reproduce famous paintings and news images on a massive scale – all composed from… Read More »Ai Weiwei’s New Toy Brick Masterpieces Re-Mix Art History
Oxford practice Studio Hallett Ike has refurbished BR House, a Victorian townhouse in east London, and added a studio to its garden. Studio Hallett Ike reconfigured the home, which occupies the ground and lower ground… Read More »Studio Hallett Ike transforms London home with series of “subtle adjustments”
We continue our 21st-Century Architecture: 25 Years 25 Buildings series with Grafton Architects‘ concrete university campus in Lima, Peru, a building that set a new standard for urban higher-education environments. Completed in 2015, the University of… Read More »Grafton Architects’ UTEC Lima campus was the most significant building of 2015
US president Donald Trump has issued the Promoting Beautiful Federal Civic Architecture executive order on his first day back in office. One of numerous executive orders issued on his inauguration day yesterday, the presidential action… Read More »Trump signs executive order to promote “beautiful federal civic architecture”
Swiss architect Valerio Olgiati has unveiled a mixed-use development set to comprise “three totemic figures” in Tirana, Albania. Named Rruga Adem Jashari, the development by Olgiati will comprise three skyscrapers reaching 150 metres, 192 metres… Read More »Valerio Olgiati reveals plans for trio of concrete skyscrapers in Tirana
Construction of a giant celestial solar farm is underway in China, with a scale comparable to creating a “Three Gorges Dam project above the Earth”. The solar farm, which would be launched into space using… Read More »China to launch one-kilometre-wide solar farm into space