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Founded by husband-and-wife team Florian Idenburg and Jing Liu, this Brooklyn studio has paved the way for a new generation of architects, challenging the status quo in enigmatic buildings of all kinds. In Brooklyn, their design for the Amant arts complex combines textured expanses of brick, concrete, and aluminum into a dynamic sequence of spaces. A Long Island house assembles gabled volumes into a poetic cruciform layout. And their transformation of Site Verrier de Meisenthal, a historic studi…
over 1 year ago
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Where others have zigged, Andre Mellone has zagged. In recent years, as professional peers have thrilled to maximalist fervor, punchy patterns, and Memphis nostalgia, the Brazilian-born designer has chosen the path of understated refinement. “Every project starts with simplicity and common sense,” reflects Mellone, who launched his Manhattan-based firm in 2012. “We can create the most intricate and layered interiors starting there.” Spanning residential, retail, and hospitality projects—among th…
over 1 year ago
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Jet-setters may have once dismissed Zurich as just a stopover en route to Art Basel or the Alps. But reinvigorated by creative spirit, this Swiss city has reestablished itself on the map, enticing world travelers with bold new restaurants, exhibition spaces, and lodgings. “Zurich is once again being recognized as a hub for European culture, just as it first was during the mid–20th century, when Le Corbusier, Picasso, and Chagall were all regulars,” notes AD100 designer Martin Brudnizki, who rece…
about 4 years ago
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On the heels of the city’s culinary pioneers, a new generation of hoteliers is redefining what it means to be hygge
about 5 years ago
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Thomas Barger knows New York City’s recycling schedule by heart. On pickup day, he sets out ahead of the trucks, snatching bags of shredded paper. “It’s eco-friendly but also economical,” Barger says of the material, which he blends into pulp and applies to simple chairs. Wonderfully wacky—with cartoonish forms and vibrant paint jobs—his furniture and sculptures have seduced dealers Paul Johnson and Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn, who are giving Barger his first solo show at Salon 94 Design this month…
about 6 years ago
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R&B star John Legend and his wife, cover girl Chrissy Teigen, find a rhythm all their own at an intimate Manhattan apartment designed by Don Stewart
almost 7 years ago
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Step inside artist Wolfgang Buttress’s bee hive-inspired pavilion at the Milan Expo 2015
almost 9 years ago
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“Photographing Monet’s Gardens: Five Contemporary Views” examines Giverny through nearly 100 images
almost 9 years ago
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A head-turning new landmark has taken shape in downtown Los Angeles. On Grand Avenue, opposite Frank Gehry’s shimmering Walt Disney Concert Hall, construction is almost complete on the Broad, the much-anticipated contemporary art museum founded by mega-collectors Edythe and Eli Broad. Opening September 20, the Diller Scofidio + Renfro–designed building will be home to the couple’s trove of nearly 2,000 treasures, among them seminal works by Cindy Sherman, Christopher Wool, and Jordan Wolfson. Th…
about 9 years ago
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AD selects the pieces to look for at this year’s Design Miami
over 9 years ago
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As the petite capital of our nation’s littlest state, Providence, Rhode Island, seldom steals the spotlight. But what the city lacks in scale and profile, it certainly makes up for in style and spirit, with rich architectural interest, top-notch restaurants, charming waterfront parks, and a creative community whose influence extends far beyond the region. Today the metropolis, its downtown revitalized, is a destination well worth exploring in depth. And what better time to do so t…
almost 10 years ago
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A trove of 20th-century design treasures hit the auction block, with all the major houses mounting blockbuster sales. Here are AD editors’ must-have masterpieces, from stunning Art Deco works to midcentury-modern gems
almost 10 years ago
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New York’s independent art scene converged in Chelsea to take in a blend of bold, surprising works
about 10 years ago
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When imaginatively conceived and deftly executed, architecture has an impact far beyond its footprint. A great building can revive a neighborhood, energize a community, or simply impart a widespread sense of wonder. To compile the best of the field’s cutting edge, the editors of Architectural Digest surveyed the globe, identifying ten recently completed projects that impress and amaze. So what characterizes the most compelling structures now? Distinctiveness, first and foremost. T…
over 10 years ago
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Ralph Pucci has a history of defying expectations at his New York and Los Angeles galleries, where he showcases the work of some of today’s top designers. His latest surprise is the location of his third outpost, which opened in Miami in December. Rather than settle in South Beach or in the established Design District, Pucci planted his flag in the city’s up-and-coming Wynwood arts enclave. “The creative energy is absolutely powerful,” Pucci says of the area, distinguished by its increasingly dy…
over 10 years ago
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Design elements humble and spare make a powerful impression at St. Henry’s Ecumenical Art Chapel in Turku, Finland. Conceived by the Helsinki firm Sanaksenaho Architects, the structure consists of a single slender volume with curved walls that converge dramatically overhead in a steep pitch. (Its shape was inspired by the Christian fish symbol.) Pine planks form virtually every surface of the arklike interior, whose ribbed sides accentuate the sense of perspective that draws one’s gaze toward th…
over 10 years ago
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The year is ending on an especially high note for KAWS—a New York artist celebrated for reinterpreting graffiti motifs and cartoon icons (Garfield, Felix the Cat, SpongeBob) in everything from paintings to large-scale sculptures to toys. His latest creations are now on view through December 21 in dual Manhattan shows: Galerie Perrotin is presenting colorful, playfully shaped canvases, and Mary Boone’s Chelsea space displays monumental teak figures. “I’m not thinking about a narrative, just the a…
over 10 years ago
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The Memorial to Victims of Violence in Mexico, which opened in Mexico City earlier this year, is a powerful study in storytelling. Designed by Gaeta-Springall Arquitectos, the project doesn’t communicate a specific narrative but instead invites ongoing dialogue, with 70 Cor-Ten-steel slabs (many of them upwards of 40 feet tall) onto which visitors can scribble or carve their own thoughts and tributes. The monumental tableau punctuates, at regular intervals, nearly four acres of Chapultepec Fores…
over 10 years ago
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New York City kicks off its annual monthlong celebration of architecture and design
over 10 years ago
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Designed in 2011 by architects Pieterjan Gijs and Arnout Van Vaerenbergh, this surrealistic folly in the Belgian city of Borgloon is composed of 100 evenly spaced layers of steel that are stacked, to almost diaphanous effect, in the form of a nave and steeple.
Designed in 2011 by architects Pieterjan Gijs and Arnout Van Vaerenbergh, this surrealistic folly in the Belgian city of Borgloon is composed of 100 evenly spaced layers of steel that are stacked, to almost diaphanous effect, in the form o…
almost 11 years ago
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Futuristic, monumental, and boldly curvaceous, Beijing’s Galaxy SOHO complex cuts a striking figure on the city’s skyline. Designed by Pritzker Prize–winning architect Zaha Hadid, the new mixed-use development comprises four elliptical towers, each rising 15 stories and clad in panels of glass and reflective aluminum. A network of platforms and bridges connects the structures, linking them in one seemingly continuous coil. All together the buildings (which house offices, shops, and entertainment…
about 11 years ago
