Azure Magazine

JUNE 28, 2024

This installation joins twelve public art sites that span a 2.4-kilometre The project, Ghost Rivers, creates a real-life cartographic overlay on the city’s public roadways, sidewalks, and alleys, mapping a hidden waterway — and the stories that run through it. Green Building Council.

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Design Milk

MARCH 24, 2023

As a go-to stylist for many leading brands and publications, Colin is a regular contributor to Architectural Digest , T, Ark , and Rum magazines. Some recent standouts: Lea Michele in Funny Girl, my good friend Eva Alt’s choreography at the ABT Incubator performance, and the Lucio Fontana Sculpture show at Hauser and Wirth.

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Azure Magazine

MARCH 14, 2023

Serving the adjacent pedestrian street, the new building preserves the former museum’s galleries and restaurants while adding retail space and public restrooms. Visitors enter the museum via a public square in front of the building. It is these upper levels where the inspiration of a lantern becomes clear.

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Azure Magazine

AUGUST 6, 2024

On the ground floor, the building’s most public-facing space is given over to a gallery devoted to the history and evolution of Jaipur’s Meenakari tradition. The post In Jaipur, a Gem of a Jewelry Shop appeared first on Azure Magazine. Inside, the space is divided into a surprising variety of uses.

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Azure Magazine

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

To mark the opening of notable new subway, train and bus stations, London, New York and Toronto recently commissioned a trio of bold public artworks. Photos by Nicholas Knight, courtesy Empire State Development and Public Art Fund, NY. In a bustling city, even familiar routines produce constant surprises. Sunrise, Sunset, Sunrise.

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Creative Market

JULY 15, 2021

They range from paintings to sculptures to photography to everything in between. Because of the kitschy approach to art, which was meant to actually be his ode to modern culture, his Soup Cans were initially received by critics and the public as something offensive. That’s an artwork that combines elements of painting and sculpture.

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Azure Magazine

APRIL 5, 2023

From the street, the façade evokes a sculptural quality, with deep vertical brick piers and horizontal pre-cast concrete elements creating a series of recessed bays designed to complement the proportions of the adjacent streetscape. The tight urban site forced McLaughlin to build up rather than out, stacking the programs seven storeys high.

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Shillington

AUGUST 2, 2020

References to African masks and sculptural figures, as well as allusions to African dance, were prevalent in most of his work. Douglas arrived in Harlem shortly after the publication of what was immediately recognized as a landmark publication: the March 1925 issue of Survey Graphic titled, “Harlem: Mecca for the New Negro.”

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Early signs of this trend have already started taking hold – foundries proudly share out-of-this-world fonts, with some even building in public." It's a good choice for high-end branding design, magazine layouts, or for luxury product packaging. Designer Chris Wilson agrees. Font in use via Alt Group. Financier by Klim Type Foundry 24.

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Azure Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2020

For the town of Drummondville, an hour’s drive east of Montreal, the new public library also doubles as an impressively multi-functional venue designed to host everything from stage performances and markets to hockey games and children’s day camps. Outside, new landscaping amplifies the library’s public-facing presence.

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Azure Magazine

AUGUST 16, 2024

Whether classic cars, vintage jewelry or baseball cards, the coveted treasures sold to the highest bidder are typically only briefly glimpsed before being squirrelled out of the public eye for decades or centuries to come. The elegantly dim grotto is framed by a series of sculptural entrances to smaller surroundings rooms.

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Azure Magazine

JULY 28, 2021

Part of a grander plan to reinvigorate Mainz’s harbourfront through a 12,000 square metre masterplan (consisting of two separate edifices with a public plaza at their centre), the ZigZag building also acts as a noise buffer separating the plaza from the remaining industrial zone.

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Colossal

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The Madrid-based artist ( previously ) is known for her sculptures and still lifes in clay that resemble flat graphics and drawings, although her works require precise positioning and photographing before they’re printed in the pages of a magazine or children’s book.

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Azure Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

The public face of the redesigned Montreal Biodome, completed this year by local architects KANVA , appears spectacularly simple. This elegant and gentle conversation with the city’s former Olympic Velodrome could be mistaken as sculptural play for its own sake. But nothing is that simple in the Biodome.

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Azure Magazine

MARCH 3, 2022

But from this dewy landscape, a sort of sculpture garden quietly emerges. The mixed-use complex comprises a trio of pavilions: an event centre capped with an elegant rooftop terrace, a two-storey public library and a smaller portico structure that acts as a sheltered outdoor meeting place. For better or worse, it takes a village.

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Azure Magazine

JANUARY 12, 2024

Suspended from a filigree grid system, numerous spotlights are positioned to carve out spaces and sculptures from light, exploring the potential to craft expansive light sculptures in public spaces as well as in smaller more intimate interiors.

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Azure Magazine

JULY 27, 2022

Drawing inspiration from Weerwater Lake, which surrounds the town, the design duo — Alessandra Covini and Giovanni Belloti — have created a floating gallery and public space on the grounds of, and as a central component of the international horticulture exhibition Floriade Expo 2022. Three circular forms comprise the design.

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Azure Magazine

JANUARY 28, 2022

The Liget Budapest Project seeks to revitalize the 122-hectare City Park with a variety of new museums and public spaces. Its first initiative is House of Music, a part-museum, part-concert hall cultural hub opened to the public on January 23.

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Azure Magazine

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Clad in rough, earthen-brown clinker bricks, the ten-storey hotel is defined by its stacked, sculptural façade, which brings a dynamic sense of movement to the complex. The post A Munich Neighbourhood Carves Out Space for Community appeared first on Azure Magazine. The HWKN-designed Scandic München Macherei hotel is a showpiece.

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Azure Magazine

MAY 23, 2024

But look closer, and you’ll start to appreciate the sculptural intricacies of the design. And while that might be an unfortunate deterrent at a public building, at a luxury retailer, exclusivity may in fact be the right note to hit. Photo by Jennifer Hyc A common criticism of brutalist architecture is its fortress-like feeling.

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Azure Magazine

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The now 565-square-metre space deftly marries texture, striking forms and public space to create a cultural hub for the school. Each of the gallery’s floors is visually connected to the street and the original bridge, rendering the space accessible to both the student population and the public.

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Design Milk

JUNE 7, 2024

I got my first piece in Tokyo a couple of years ago, and I’m captivated by the sculptural shapes and the effortless flow of the fabric around the body. Made to be functional, sculptural, and timeless, each Nesting Set contains a lidded ashtray, standing pipe, and matching one-hitter. Noguchi Museum Photo: Esoteric Survey 2.

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Azure Magazine

AUGUST 23, 2021

Thankfully, many creatives still found ways to bring their inspiring ideas to the public. Various mechanical sculptures, automata and kinetic structures attract the visitor’s eye, but the crux of the experience lies in its immersive nature. In the city of Foshan, China, an oversized clock makes its home in a public square.

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Azure Magazine

AUGUST 17, 2020

As we soak up the last dregs of the dog days of summer, here are our top picks for five striking, and socially distant, public interventions: 1. Inside, a squat glass-and-wood cube houses a refreshment stand, tap-room for local craft beers and public washrooms (plus staff facilities). Murmuration by SO-IL. Wicker Pavilion by DJA.

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Azure Magazine

MARCH 2, 2022

Another major attribute that the structures share is a circulation network centred on sculptural staircases that connect their ground floors to their top tiers, and every space in between — from intimate lounges and flexible seminar spaces to tiered seating. The space is part of the street level, which the school makes open to the public.

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Colossal

JANUARY 4, 2022

The Aperture Portfolio Prize is an annual international competition that recognizes innovative bodies of work that haven’t been featured in major publications or exhibitions. One winner will be published in Aperture magazine, receive a $3,000 prize, and have a solo show in New York. Sculpture Space Residency.

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Azure Magazine

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

From adaptable seating systems to sculptural lighting, these new releases bring this signature aesthetic to objects of all sizes. Consisting of two side and one coffee table (in two heights and three diameters), the series expertly translates the designer’s sinuous language into a sculptural object that feels at once classic and contemporary.

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Azure Magazine

MARCH 7, 2023

Beyond creating a new cultural icon for the city, the project demonstrated Chipperfield’s ardent consideration of the public realm — an ethos that has defined many of his noteworthy projects. His renovation enabled public access of the building for the first time. This notion of access is the throughline that runs through the project.

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Inkbot Design

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

Bauhaus graphic designers embraced mixed-media collages, vibrant colours, and inventive typography to create posters, advertisements, magazines, and more that broke past conventions. His concept was to remove the artificial separation between fine arts like painting and sculpture and applied crafts like typography, ceramics, and textiles.

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Azure Magazine

MARCH 12, 2021

Echoing the convex and concave gestures of the architecture, the undulating glass-clad visible vault contains over 4,500 sculptures by artists from across the North. A wide range of sculptural works in a bevy of media — from serpentinite to clay — occupy the undulating space. “The

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Azure Magazine

JULY 12, 2021

The Abu Dhabi Early Childhood Authority is a public entity that supports early childhood development through policy and law. In the lobby, visitors are greeted by Big Blue, a life-sized fluffy “monster” sculpture who doubles as the office mascot.

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Azure Magazine

JUNE 14, 2024

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. The post A Brutalist Icon is Transformed into an Ultra-Sustainable Hotel appeared first on Azure Magazine.

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Azure Magazine

JANUARY 27, 2020

With a striking, seemingly folding canopy that soars to almost 40 metres (intended to house large-scale commissioned sculptures and installations by contemporary artists), the Foster + Partners building will also frame equally dramatic views toward the Grand River beyond. PHOTO: Richard Barnes. Powerhouse Telemark by Snøhetta.

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Eye on Design

JULY 22, 2021

Seeking to visually embody post-structuralist theory, the students designed the publication to slowly dismantle its structure as you read through it, beginning with strict grid systems that were deconstructed, page by page. After that, those theories began to take hold.” . This was not simply aesthetic reinvention but also theoretical.

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Azure Magazine

APRIL 8, 2024

When it comes to replacing an existing venue, the emphasis is often on making the new facility more accessible to the public than its predecessor. Open to the public, the St Lawrence Centre for the Arts reimagined and expanded ground floor would open on two sides to a park and new plaza. At a recent town hall event at the St.

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Azure Magazine

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

An urbanist who centres people and communities within his approach to development and design with a genuine understanding and connection to place and history, Mitchell Silver will be showcased in the upcoming publication Engaging Black People and Power in a special living legacy tribute. They responded, ‘You can.’”

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Azure Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2022

Allowing paintings and sculptures to take centre stage often means creating spartan environments inspired by the austere “white cube” of a modern gallery. The post A Berlin Penthouse Where Art Meets Design appeared first on Azure Magazine. Designing a home around an art collection is no mean feat.

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