Stay updated with breaking news from David Kohn. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
From a rooftop basketball court to a caterpillar-shaped food hall, the souk-like London development is architecture at its trendiest. Can its eye-popping buildings lure young creatives – and bring the buzz?
After a year that saw the theme of this year’s Biennale: ‘How will we live together?’ – set by its curator, Lebanese architect and MIT dean Hashim Sarkis
Follow May. 6, 2021 The Mount Meron passageway where 45 people were crushed to death last week was illegally built some 20 years ago by the ultra-Orthodox Toldos Aharon sect so that men would be able to enter the compound without coming into contact with women. No government entity acted to stop it. The Meron disaster occurred as people left the Lag Ba’omer bonfire lighting ceremony conducted by the insular anti-Zionist sect. Toldos Aharon has known for years that the passageway was too narrow and crowded to accommodate crowds of the magnitude that have been coming to Mount Meron on Lag Ba...
The First Art Newspaper on the Net Excavated in 1900 by Paul du Chatellier in a barrow and forgotten for a century, this ornamented slab was recently rediscovered in the Musée dArchéologie nationale (MAN Museum of National Archaeology) and was the subject of a significant study that allowed it to be interpreted as the oldest cartographical representation of a known territory in Europe, a probable marker of the political power of a principality of the early Bronze Age. BREST (AFP) .- A Bronze-age slab first uncovered in 1900 in western France is the oldest map in Europe, according t...
National Gallery announces shortlist for NG200 design competition 8 April 2021 Asif Khan, Caruso St John, David Chipperfield, David Kohn, Selldorf Architects, and Witherford Watson Mann have been selected in the first stage of the National Gallery’s NG200 refurbishing competition. London’s National Gallery is looking to redesign the foyer area of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown’s 1991 Sainsbury Wing, the gallery's main entrance since 2018. “Although the 1991 Sainsbury Wing has more than satisfied its original brief, audiences have grown over the past 30 years and, during bu...