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Can you see it? It seems that a rising trend in architecture is actually an older trend in magic: making large things disappear. Sou Fujimoto’s plans for a tower in Taiwan takes a stab at such a feat, using porous walls that allow views of the city to penetrate through the superstructure as if it…
When asked to build a trade show pavilion, entrants of the Ceramics of Italy Exhibition Design Challenge last year were blessed with access to an incredible range of ceramic tiles. Utilizing CTI’s extensive catalogue, competing architects were to design a temporary space to join the ranks of ceramic experiments by Aldo Rossi and Bernard Tschumi.…
Haven her body was | Warren, Lightjet, 168 x 208, 2011 In a recent interview, London-based French photographer Noemie Goudal told Yatzer, “I don’t think my pictures invite anyone into a fantasy world but rather a place made from the real that questions the fantasies, desires, and fragility of the viewer.” Goudal’s photographs overlay portals…
Since conception, the rooftop garden and the cantilever have been two architectural features that will seemingly never exhaust their unanimous appeal. Thanks to artist Do Ho Suh, both features will appear on a seven-story building in San Diego, but not how you would expect. The Korean artist known for exploring the cultural significance of space,…
In his latest book Religion for Atheists, pop philosopher Alain de Botton asks: “Why should religious people have the most beautiful buildings in the land?” Unlike some philosophers, De Botton knows that words can only go so far, and sometimes it takes something large, substantial, and intrusive—like, say, a building—to get your message across. To…
In the 19th century, the concept of an underground tube train sustained itself largely in the fanciful transcripts of science fiction novels. Numerous written fantasies of subterranean transit systems stemmed from the experiments of inventors like Alfred Ely Beach, who demonstrated his newly developed pneumatic transit system to the awe of men in top hats…
When architect Louis Sullivan began cultivating Chicago’s vertical growth with some of the world’s first skyscrapers, he famously cloaked his steel high-rises with images of vegetation. Embellishing the tops of his multistory buildings with iron-cast flora, Sullivan sought to evoke the image of a novel breed of architecture sprouting upwards from the fertile American soil.…
While some airport lounges try to assuage their stomach-turning design schemes with free danishes and multi-lingual magazines, Turkish Airlines knows that there are few things more sumptuous than feeling as if you’re in a private pod, and jetsetters at Istanbul’s Ataturk Airport were not to be denied such a luxury. Determined to import the “contemporary…
In 1951, Edward Hopper painted what was to become the hallmark of his personal foray into Surrealism. Though it could arguably be described as a painting of a white wall, Rooms by the Sea takes the viewer inside a typical mid-century American home, where an open door to the right of the composition suggests the…