An art biennial in the United Arab Emirates inaugurates a set of new exhibition spaces and presents work by OFFICE, SANAA, Buro Ole Scheeren, and Studio Mumbai. The 11th Sharjah Biennial sprawls through more than a dozen venues in and around the emirate’s Heritage Area on the eastern bank of Sharjah Creek. (The Persian Gulf is visible in the background.) The art world loves a spectacle and rewards provocateurs. Sharjah bans the sale of alcohol, enforces strict blasphemy laws, and has a reputation as the most conservative of the United Arab Emirates. They make an unlikely couple, but the opening
Opened on April 4, Coach’s Omotesando Flagship shop is the latest addition to the stunning array of designer boutiques lining one of Tokyo’s most elegant shopping streets. Occupying a prime, corner site at the base of the new commercial complex Oak Omotesando, the shop interior was created by Coach’s in-house design team. But its standout visual features—an elegant, transparent façade and an internal stair tower—were designed by OMA New York. Composed of glass boxes arranged in a bold, herringbone pattern, the entire exterior surface doubles as display, enabling not just the brand, but also individual bags and boots, to have
Designed by Toronto-based Diamond Schmitt Architects, the new 851,575-square-foot, seven-story Mariisnky II Theater expands the institution's campus in the historic heart of St. Petersburg.
Installation view of Gaetano Pesce: L'Abbraccio at Fred Torres Collaborations. When I arrived at Gaetano Pesce’s first New York solo exhibition in 25 years, the designer had just stormed out. I was told that a reporter shooting a video had asked the maestro to say his name on camera, and Pesce, feeling he should require no such introduction, ended the interview abruptly. After making celebrated work for decades, perhaps you earn the right to leave your own opening, and the exhibition of more than 40 objects at Fred Torres Collaborations in Chelsea cherry picks from several periods in Pesce’s prolific
The American Architectural Foundation's Accent on Architecture gala was held in Washington, D.C., at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium—a Neoclassical building designed by San Francisco architect Arthur Brown Jr. and completed in 1931. “Steve said that he was at the nexus of art and science,” said Peter Bohlin, referring to the late Steve Jobs, the Apple founder and his most famous client. “We are at the nexus of people and places.” Bohlin used the analogy to explain the success of the Apple stores designed by his firm, Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, after receiving Architectural Record’s Good Design is Good Business Lifetime
The goal for Mirror—a new permanent installation on the facade of the Seattle Art Museum—was to create a “living system” that constantly changes in response to its surroundings, says its creator, artist Doug Aitken.
Studies show that health drives the school construction market, but many buildings lag far behind. This story first appeared in GreenSource. The connection between sustainable school buildings and student performance can be difficult to quantify—but the idea that children learn more readily when they can see, hear, and breathe clearly isn’t exactly controversial. This year, a full 89 percent of K–12 school respondents in a recent market survey conducted by McGraw-Hill Construction (Record's and Greensource's parent company) listed enhanced health and well-being among the most important reasons to build, retrofit, and operate greener schools. That number is up from 61
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