Month: May 2019

The Met celebrates “resurgence of camp” in new exhibition Camp: Notes on Fashion

May 8, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
Camp: Notes on Fashion by the Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Met’s Costume Institute has unveiled a pink-hued exhibition exploring camp fashion across the centuries, from the playful to the outrageous. Camp: Notes on Fashion opens this week, following The Met Gala on Monday. Camp was chosen as the theme, thanks to the rising trend for deliberately exaggerated and theatrical fashion. “We are experiencing a resurgence of

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Tetrys Building / FGMF Arquitetos

May 8, 2019 Pilar Caballero 0

Designing a residential building means a lot more than just grouping apartments on a larger volume. We truly believe that a building is part of larger landscape and can (or should) define a broader scale.

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challenge design folds a metal façade over a kindergarten in china

May 8, 2019 macnadusa 0

conceived by chinese architects, challenge design, the ‘park legend kindergarten‘ has been built on a site in chengdu’s tianfu new area. positioned between a 100 meter-long green belt and a dramatic urban landscape, the project is formed to combine nature and modernity into one sweeping geometry. as opposed to designing a typical colorful nursery, the […]

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Hilarchitects completes contemplative meditation hall in eastern China

May 8, 2019 Natasha Levy 0

Wood-lined rooms, shaded corridors and water walkways are just some of the features that Hilarchitects has incorporated into this meditation space in north eastern China. Located in the rural outskirts of Cangzhou, a city in Hebei province, the meditation hall has been designed by Hilarchitects to let visitors “dissociate from their regular rhythm of daily life”.

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Speelpleinstraat / 51N4E

May 8, 2019 Pilar Caballero 0

The question was to create 144 childcare places on the plot of an existing municipal park maintenance service. The plot sits within a remarkable park environment, framed by tall trees. The building is designed as a pavilion within this park, a circular building with little distinction between front and back enriched by its relation with the varying surrounding conditions.

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Jade Signature Tower / Herzog & de Meuron

May 8, 2019 Paula Pintos 0

Jade Signature is a tower on the beach. Like the great Miami hotels we have come to admire, it is a building rooted directly in the landscape and the city around it. Interior and exterior are seamlessly bound together. The street connects to the lobby, the lobby overlooks the pool, and the pool is on the beach.  Jade stands in contrast to the wall of parking plinths that usually form a barrier between the city and the beach. The relationship with nature, the environment, and the surroundings are at the core of this project.