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ArquitectAs. [Women Architects] Call for papers. The first International Symposium on Research in Architecture and Gender entitled “Redefining the profession” invites masters or doctoral students, professionals, academics and educators to contribute…
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Saturday's musical video. (Official music video)., full_html
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Boris Carloff - Falling (Official music video), dirigido por ObraskiBros
The latest exhibition to hit Somerset House this winter is a huge celebration of an iconic patron of British fashion, the late Isabella Blow. Container or content? Architecture or exhibition? What is the question? , full_html
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Alexander McQueen and Isabella Blow: Burning Down The House, 1996, London. Shot at Hedingham Castle in Essex, Blow and McQueen cavort in this dramatic shot by David LaChapelle
Isabella Blow was one of fashion’s most courageous, outrageous, and imaginative muses. This book is a beautifully photographed insider’s look at her highly influential personal style and wardrobe. If you like fashion, photography and design, this is…
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Isabella Blow: Fashion Galore! The Book
Scientists at the Google[x] research facility in California have begun testing on an intelligent contact lens containing tiny electronics that could constantly monitor glucose levels in the tears of people to help control diabetes. It is a huge and…
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Cristina Argos and María Loriente designed this building for 44 Social Housing Units in Teruel, Spain. Bioclimatic design and the use of passive systems and strategies enhances the building's thermal and acoustic comfort, achieving the ideal…
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44 Social Housing Units in Teruel
Last 19th of September, Slovenian artist Roman Ondák presented his first work in Spain at the Crystal Palace in Retiro Park. The intervention consists of an exterior walkway which goes nearly unnoticed. Spectators are thus provided with a new view…
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Scene, a project by Roman Ondák at the Crystal Palace of Madrid. Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía. 2013. Photography: Joaquín Cortés/Román Lores
Last year, the Museum of Modern Art caused a ruckus with a plan to raze its neighbor, the former American Folk Art Museum building, designed by Tod Williams and Billie Tsien. So MoMA trustees hired the architecture firm Diller Scofidio & Renfro…
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Buildings around the Museum of Modern Art, shown in 1939, have fallen to accommodate expansion, changing the scale of West 53rd Street. Andreas Feininger/Museum of Modern Art
Paris architects Lacaton & Vassal have reinvented as a modern, lightweight "doppelgänger", a translucent structure to house an international art collection, in Dunkirkʼs harbour. Established during Mitterrand’s presidency in the early 1980s, les…
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First building. FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais by Lacaton & Vassal. Photography © Philippe Ruault.
This is a graduation film by Tomas Bata University in Zlin, from Czech Republic, in 2011. Few device, however very intense. Short video with, rain, cops, cafe, city,... all with great illustrations. , full_html
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