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F5: Scott Henderson Talks Powerful Graphic Images, Travel + More

Design Milk

Tony Cragg, Green Early Forms, 2003, edition of 6 Photo: Marian Goodman Gallery. Sculpture. I love the sculptures of Tony Cragg. Abstract sculpture is void of any functional and representational qualities – so why then does it even need to look right? ” Tulip Public Seating by Tulpi. Vulgaris Sculpture.

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Magical Imperfection: A New Documentary Explores the Life of Raymond Moriyama

Azure Magazine

For the young architect, it was a career-making public commission. While Moriyama retired from daily work in 2003, the firm of Moryiama & Teshima Architects remains a leading Canadian practice. (No In the afterglow of Canada’s centennial optimism, public investment in architecture still flourished — and so did Moriyama.

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A Brutalist Icon is Transformed into an Ultra-Sustainable Hotel

Azure Magazine

Beloved by architects, detested by the public, New Haven’s Armstrong Rubber Company Building, an icon of brutalist architecture designed by Marcel Breuer, was voted Connecticut’s ugliest building in a 2018 Business Insider survey. In the years that followed, it became the subject of controversy. The building’s 4.9-metre-tall

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(Almost) Never Demolish: Reviving Social Housing Through Preservation

Azure Magazine

Combining condo blocks with ample public amenities, the ongoing development — initiated in 2002 — is knitting a once-isolated neighbourhood back into the city. And in an era of limited public investment, the partnership with private developers meant that all those new condominiums helped pay for improved social housing. Doublesapce.

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Guerrilla Marketing Tactics: Unleashing Creativity and Innovation

Inkbot Design

Or take the State Street Global Advisors “ Fearless Girl ” statue placed opposite Wall Street’s famous charging bull sculpture on International Women’s Day 2017 to highlight the under-representation of women in corporate leadership – vast amounts of media coverage plus conversation-starting impact. A citywide bomb scare ensued.

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“Could Policy-Making be Considered Architecture?” A Q&A with Frida Escobedo

Azure Magazine

That all changed this March when New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art picked her to design its new $500-million modern and contemporary art wing, 7,435 square metres of galleries and public space. You started practicing architecture immediately following your graduation from the Universidad Iberoamericana in 2003.

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Sketches of Frank Gehry: A Conversation with Jean-Louis Cohen

Azure Magazine

He has explored theory and design from 1900 to the present and incorporated his vast knowledge into publications, exhibitions (including at the 14 th Venice Biennale, where he curated the French Pavilion) and lectures. Cohen has built his international career on his double identity as both an architect and an intellectual.