When the Great Recession dawned, architecture was the glamour profession of the creative class. Extravagant, signature buildings – Frank Gehry’s titanium-clad Guggenheim Museum in Spain’s Basque ...
Text description provided by the architects. Sid Lee Architecture and Ædifica turned the parking area at Place des Arts into a Salon Urbain, a versatile new space ideal for meeting up before or after ...
You would think architecture, the art form we live inside, would be the art we feel closest to. But in its modern incarnation — the kind that gets written up by critics and praised by other architects ...
The 2020 pandemic has had an inequitable impact on the most vulnerable members of modern society and exposed the shortcomings of urbanism that have long been swept under the carpet. With most at home ...
Text description provided by the architects. The original Klinik Hair Salon, completed in 1998, was one of our first projects, and although small, it was important in that it helped to define how the ...
New York’s East 53rd Street, between Madison and Fifth Avenues, is full of nondescript Manhattan skyscrapers. In the courtyard of one of these clinically clean buildings, however, there are five ...
IT’S RARE THAT architecture is at the center of a social revolution. Or even a literal one, though it’s hard to say if what’s happening in Taksim Square is a revolution. At least yet. But in this Q&A, ...
Often, great things come in small packages, and this new hair salon interior in New York's chic Gramercy Park neighbourhood is a case in point. Named Minor Rose, the space was designed by Evan ...
Many comics are socially conscious, from the feminist sci-fi of “Bitch Planet” to the frightening dystopia of “Lazarus.” Many other comics skip through time. Perhaps the best recent example is Jason ...
The U.S.-Mexico border is rugged and hot — and filled with row upon row of razor wire and fencing. Crossing this 1,900-mile boundary without permission is tremendously risky; evading capture is ...
August 27, 2020 — The 2020 COVID-19 pandemic has had an inequitable impact on the most vulnerable members of modern society and exposed the shortcomings of urbanism that have long been swept under the ...