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Growing up in the UK, photographer Jamie McGregor Smith was familiar with traditional churches and their historic architecture. After moving to Vienna, Austria in 2018, he observed cathedrals and churches across Europe constructed in a 20th-century brutalist style. Intrigued, McGregor planned a series of train journeys across Europe to find […]
David Lynch displayed his furniture design skills at the Salone del Mobile tradeshow during Milan Design Week, where he designed a large wooden chair in a room highlighted by a pattern resembling an ocean. Known for his dark Americana films, including Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive, as well as the […]
Through the years, visuals have become an important part of the live performance experience, creating the most memorable moments when accompanied by sound. Lights and projections can enhance the concert experience for the audience and provide the audience with a rich, vivid layer of visual storytelling. With “Sound of Unirii,” […]
Brearley Architects + Urbanists (BAU) presents a snaking bridge that incorporates spaces for play, rest, and planting and connects two areas of wetland across Shanghai’s Yuandang Lake. The figure of the bridge resembles a ribbon and echoes water ripples, while trees and shrubs are incorporated into the bridge, giving the […]
Burning Man unveils its 2024 Temple design at Black Rock City, which takes its inspiration from the traditional weaving techniques of the Lebanese Khaizaran chairs as well as Neo-Gothic and Art Deco styles. The architectural influences come from Caroline Ghosn‘s earliest memories, who is Burning Man’s first BIPOC lead artist […]
As part of its Neptune spacecraft development, Space Perspective has unveiled a test capsule that, buoyed by a giant balloon, could take tourists into space next year. During the coming weeks, the pressurized capsule will undertake its first unmanned test flight, to be ready for commercial operation by 2025. Neptune […]
The Oscar-nominated set design for Poor Things aimed to create a “1930s studio movie with today’s technology“. The black comedy Poor Things, directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, tells the story of Bella, played by Emma Stone, who has a child’s mind trapped inside a woman’s body – a plotline that affects […]
Plat Asia has designed a contemporary teahouse for a resort in Huzhou, China, inspired by the transience of clouds and surrounded by undulating steel poles. The Cloud Tea Room is located on a secluded hillside within the tea fields of Xisaishan resort. It is surrounded by a network of poles […]
On a quiet street in Timisoara, Romania, CECART has restructured and renovated its attic into a modern gallery. With 150 square meters of space now available to artists, the project was undertaken to restore the old attic space to public use. In addition to providing a new venue for CECART‘s […]
MINA, the Museum of Immersive New Art, opened yesterday, August 25 in Bucharest, becoming the first immersive space in Romania and the largest new media art center in Southeast Europe. More than that, it will redefine art through emerging technologies while bringing immersive exhibitions to an industrial space. As such, […]