SCAF Sydney Announces Shigeru Ban’s First Australian Project
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The Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation (SCAF) has announced Pritzker Prize-winning Japanese architect Shigeru Ban’s First Australian Project. The architect will design two installations to be presented at SCAF in Sydney from March 25 until July 1, 2017, maQ&A: Gaetano Pesce on Gender Inequality, Humor in Architecture, and the Element of Surprise
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Italian designer Gaetano Pesce is busily opening exhibitions this fall. While the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles is currently showing a survey of his work with cast resin, Pesce’s critique of patriarchy takes center stage at a three-part conceptu
‘Business of Design Week 2016’ at Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre
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“Business of Design Week 2016,” a flagship event being hosted by Hong Kong Design Centre, will take place at Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre from November 30 through December 4, 2016.The conference gets together progressive designers and creatiBe a ‘Game Changer’ for Hong Kong at deTour 2016
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Running parallel with Business of Design Week (BODW), deTour 2016, bringing forth the theme of “Game Changer,” the city’s most awaited cultural event will be on view at PMQ, Hong Kong from November 24 through December 4, 2016.deTour 2016 contravenes thTake a Tour of Juergen Teller’s New Studio in London
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German photographer Juergen Teller, legendary for his edgy and uncouth fashion shoots and artistic portraits (remember Kim Kardashian crawling up a pile of dirt in a flesh-colored bodysuit in 2015?), recently made waves with a nude self-portrait on a donkeyNorthern Exposure
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When a custom-designed dining table made in 1952 by Danish cabinetmaker Peder Moos was auctioned at Phillips London in October 2015 for £602,500, ($1.3 million), more then quadruple the presale estimate of £150,000–250,000 ($227,000–379,000) and a worlDutch Experience Designer Leanne Wijnsma on Data Leakage and How Smell Can Help Prevent It
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The “Smell of Data,” a new project by Dutch designer Leanne Wijnsma and filmmaker Froukje Tan, recently baffled the international design community both thanks to its interesting aesthetics and surprising function. The flacon-like ball was created asThe Opulence, Ornamentation, and Eroticism of Vases at V&A
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London’s V&A has opened a new display celebrating the opulence and ornamentation of vase sets taken from some of Britain’s most beautiful National Trust properties. These groups of rare, decadently designed ceramics will be on show until April 30, 201Artcurial Sells Marc Newson ‘Pod of Drawers’ for Record €1M
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Artcurial has set a new auction record for Australian designer Marc Newson’s “Pod of Drawers” 1987 during its October 25 Heavy Metal sale in Paris.The riveted aluminium chest of drawers sold to an Asian collector for €1,019,800 / $1,111,582 against aSanaa’s Grace Farms Win Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize
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Kazuko Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, or rather their Pritzker-decorated Japanese practice Sanaa, has won the 2014/ 2015 Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize, an award that recognizes “distinguished architectural works on the North and South American continents.”SaRonald Phillips Shows Historic Treasures at TEFAF New York
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World renowned London-based antiques dealer Ronald Phillips is presenting a selection of extremely important items at the inaugural edition of TEFAF New York (booth 66), including “The Bridgwater House Porphyry Dolphin Tables,” “The Elvaston Castle MirrJohnston Marklee at Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
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Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (MCA Chicago) is hosting an installation “Johnston Marklee: Grid is a Grid is a Grid is a Grid is a Grid” that will be on view through November 18, 2016.The Los-Angeles based architecture firm Johnston Marklee have bee“We want to help pass on everything we can”: Loïc Le Gaillard and Julien Lombrail on 10 Years of Carpenters Workshop
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In 2006 Julien Lombrail, originally from Bordeaux, and Loïc Le Gaillard, originally from Paris, opened a gallery for collectible contemporary design in a former carpenter’s workshop in London’s Chelsea. A lot has happened since. With locations in LLes Arts Décoratifs Goes Bauhaus Big Time With 900-Exhibit Survey
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The German Bauhaus movement is the subject of a major exhibition this fall at Musée des arts decoratifs in Paris. Only weeks after the 2016 Bauhaus Triennale in Weimar, Dessau, Berlin ended in early October in neighboring Germany, the French institution is pRevolution Precrafted Presents Modular Home by Jean Nouvel at FIAC
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A modular home designed by French architect Jean Nouvel is perhaps one of the largest highlights at this year’s FIAC “Hors les Murs” program. The architectural installation titled “Simple,” on view at the Tuileries Gardens, is constructed of lightweHala Wardé to Design New Beirut Museum of Art in Lebanon
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Lebanese-French architect Hala Wardé and her firm HW architecture have been selected to build the new BeMA: Beirut Museum of Art, one of the most ambitious museum projects in Lebanon in decades. Scheduled to open in 2020, BeMA is intended to serve as “a muUNESCO Report Says Culture Makes Cities Safer and Stronger
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The UNESCO makes a strong case for systematically fostering culture in city planning in its new “Global Report, Culture: Urban Future,” launched on October 18 at the Third United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat IIIDavid Bowie’s Collection of Memphis Furniture to Go to Auction in November
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Sotheby’s “Bowie/Collector” sale on November 10 and 11, 2016—and its accompanying exhibition—are bound to draw crowds this fall. The British auction house recently published the entire catalog featuring more than 400 works from David Bowie’s vastNew London Design Museum Announces Opening Show with OMA, Hussein Chalayan, Keny Hara, More
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The countdown for the new Design Museum in Kensington is well under way: on November 24 the institution is scheduled to open in its new home in the former Commonwealth Institute on High Street Kensington. The historical building designed by Robert Matthew, JoGabriel Orozco’s Permanent Garden at South London Gallery
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South London Gallery has opened a new permanent garden designed by Gabriel Orozco on October 1, 2016.The Garden has been created by the artist over the last two years with the support from 6a architects and horticulturists at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. IUnderstanding Excellence: Flemish Architecture Featured in Frankfurt Show
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Contemporary architecture in the so-called “Low Countries”—Flanders and the Netherlands—takes center stage in the new show at DAM Deutsches Architekturmuseum Frankfurt. The region has a long tradition of excellence in the industry, witnessing its greaFirst View: Impressions from the New Statue of Liberty Museum Design on Ellis Island
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The Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation (SOLEIF) and the National Park Service/U.S. Department of the Interior unveiled plans for the museum on Ellis Island in New York Harbor last week. The new building will serve as the center-piece of a substantialUnsettling Truths: MoMA Confronts Global Refugee Crisis in New Exhibition
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“Insecurities: Tracing Displacement and Shelter,” a new exhibition at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, is confronting one of the most pressing global emergencies: the current refugee crisis, presented in the views and perspectives of architects, designeDamien Hirst’s Newport Street Gallery Wins 2016 RIBA Stirling Prize for the Best Building of the Year
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Damien Hirst’s Newport Street Gallery in London, designed by Caruso St John Architects has won the 2016 RIBA Stirling Prize as best new building—one of the most prestigious architectural accolades in the UK. The award comes sixteen years after Caruso St JAmanda Levete Designed MAAT Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology Opens in Lisbon
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One of this fall’s most anticipated highlights, Lisbon’s MAAT–Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology officially opens its doors to the public on October 5, with a grand program organized under the leadership of its new director, former MoMA architecBIG and Zaha Hadid Among Aga Khan Award for Architecture Winners 2016
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The winners of the 2016 Aga Khan Award for Architecture were announced in Abu Dhabi this week. Six projects in five countries have made it to the final round, from Bjarke Ingels Group’s multiethnic neighborhood “Superkilen” in Copenhagen, Denmark, to LeSneak Peek: What to See at PAD London 2016
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The PAD London art and design fair returns for its 10th anniversary edition in 2016 from October 3-9 at its landmark location of Berkeley Square in Mayfair with a lineup of 66 prominent international galleries from major cities in Europe, North America, and A10 Things to See and Do at Vienna Design Week
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Vienna Design Week kicks off this weekend in the Austrian capital with a bustling program in celebration of its 10th anniversary. Festival director Lilli Hollein and her team have organized around 150 events, some of them even beyond Vienna’s borders, as iBrazilian Architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha to Receive Royal Gold Medal
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2016 is proving a triumphant year for Brazilian architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha. Only weeks after having received the Praemium Imperiale, Japan’s most prestigious prize for international artists, architects and creators, and months after the Golden Lion foThe 3D Printing Revolution Celebrated in German Show
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3D printing technology is rapidly revolutionizing many things, from visual arts to industrial design, and from medical engineering to space travel. A new exhibition at the Red Dot Design Museum in Essen, Germany, takes a close look at the new manufacturing teDeparture: Vienna Architekturzentrum’s Farewell Exhibition for Dietmar Steiner
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Vienna’s Architekturzentrum (AZW) is biding its retiring Founding Director Dietmar Steiner farewell this fall, with an exhibition dedicated to failure and new beginnings in architecture. Irritating as this thematic focus may appear at first—after all Stei
