PlayTime- Controlled Chaos, is an essay by Andrew Saladino about an extraordinary French film, Playtime directed by Jacques Tati. , full_html
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PlayTime-Controlled Chaos, by Andrew Saladino

PlayTime-Controlled Chaos. Play Time vs Mon Oncle and more

Dutch study UNStudio has completed a mixed-use promotion in the Chinese city of Hangzhou with a program for a hotel, offices, apartments and shops, within a pair of winding towers connected by a podiumo and a garden plaza., full_html
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Raffles City Hangzhou complex by UNStudio

UNStudio finishes Raffles City Hangzhou complex with organic shape towers

Steven Holl Architects completed the Iowa a Visual Arts Building, located on the university's campus in Iowa City, USA. The new building replaces a 1936 building that was heavily damaged by flooding in June of 2008., full_html
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Visual Arts Building by Steven Holl. Image courtesy of the University of Iowa

[VIDEO] Visual Arts Building, University of Iowa: Steven Holl Architects

Always inexhaustible and constant creator of proposals, the Mies' building, or its faithful reconstruction, are able to motivate always new visions. In this case, Fernando Ayuso presents, as a tribute to the German architect, engaging tour of the…
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Video tribute by Fernando Ayuso to Barcelona Pavilion, designed by Mies van der Rohe, 1929. (Rebuilt in 1986)

Reflections. Always Mies vs Tribute to Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona Pavilion by Fernando Ayuso

Spearheaded by American Ballet Theatre principal Daniil Simkin with new choreography by Alejandro Cerrudo, projection design by Dmitrij Simkin and costumes by Dior, Falls the Shadow is a new 30-minute work made in and for the Solomon R. Guggenheim…
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Photograph by Erin Baiano for The Guggenheim

Dance with site-specific installation in Guggenheim Museum

Built between 1949 and 1995 by architect Philip Johnson, The Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut, has become a place of pilgrimage for lovers of modern and contemporary painting and sculpture. Its position as an art mecca comes thanks to the…
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Julian Schnabel walking at The Glass House

Diébédo Francis Kéré talks about his 2017 Pavilion design, his work in Burkina Faso and his German influences. , full_html
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From left to wright; Hans Ulrich Obrist (Artistic Director, Serpentine Galleries), Stefano Boeri (Stefano Boeri Architetti), Saskia Sassen (Professor, Columbia University), Francis Kéré and Mohsen Mostafavi (Dean, Harvard Graduate School of Design)

Francis Kéré in conversation, Serpentine Pavilion 2017

Staircases can trigger conversations, provide a sense of arrival and dazzle with ingenuity, so why are they often overlooked? , full_html
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Staircase of the National Bank of Denmark, designed by Arne Jacobsen, in the middle of Copenhagen, between 1966 and 1978. Image courtesy of National Bank of Denmark

The beauty of stairs. The Ascension of the Architecture

More Covers – A series of 36 animated vintage book graphics. , full_html
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More Covers by Henning M. Lederer

More Covers in motion by Henning M. Lederer

Situated at the corner of 4th Avenue and 1st Street in the coveted Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, 251 1st by ODA New York is the firm’s latest manifestation of its steadfast commitment to improving quality of life in urban areas., full_html
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251 1st Street by ODA New York. Photograph © Miguel de Guzman

251 1st Street by ODA New York. Pixel housing