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Completed in 2021 in Antwerp, Belgium. Images by Stijn Bollaert. Zuiderzicht is one of the eight high-rise volumes positioned at diverse spots within the master plan by Studio Associates Secchi-Viganò for Antwerp...
To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. Not unlike the sudden appearance of the cicada, a buzzing critical mass of art-world players burst out of hibernation last Saturday night in the South of France, making for one of the first major international, in-person art happenings since pandemic restrictions started to ease. They surfaced at the behest of Swiss philanthropist Maja Hoffmann, an heir to the Hoffmann-La Roche pharmaceuticals billions, to celebrate the completion of Luma Arles, her 27-acre creative campus in the city of Arles. The gestation really did take a...
Arles is enriched with a Gehry tower, with an artistic campus June 26, 2021 by archyde Known for its Roman arenas, the city of Arles was enriched on Saturday with a new monument: a tower with metallic reflections 56 meters high designed by architect Frank Gehry, beacon of the vast creative campus of the Luma Foundation of the Swiss patron Maja Hoffmann. Designer of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao coated with titanium or the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, Frank Gehry, 92, wrapped 11,000 stainless steel panels around this tower surrounded at its base by a vast glass rotunda, the ‘dr...
French art park features work by more than 45 artists and designers
Copy Titled "In Muharraq", the Bahrain Pavilion at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, explores the city's architectural and urban heritage, regeneration, and conservation. Curated by Noura Al Sayeh and Ghassan Chemali, the pavilion will be on display at the Arsenale from May 22nd until November 21st, 2021. The exhibition highlights the country's pearling narrative, bringing together social, environmental, and cultural aspects and showcasing the initiative being done by UNESCO, titled "Pearling, Testimony of an Island Economy". The exhibition showcases th...