An olive tree grows up from a patch of gravel towards a circular skylight in this Los Angeles fashion store, which was designed by local studio Dan Brunn Architecture. Dan Brunn Architecture – the studio that also recently renovated a Frank Gehry-designed house – created the flagship store for Los Angeles fashion brand Road to Awe. It occupies an overhauled […]
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Andrew G. Fisher is an artist who opens a constant relationship between two media, photography and illustration. Time is frozen in black and white snapshots, squared frames of a reality in which the human presence is absent at present time, but survives through its traces. The same scenes are reduced to a simpler geometry, traced […]
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Owen D. Pomery has an educational and professional background in architecture and nowadays he works in pen and ink as a professional illustrator for architectural projects. Paralelly, he also makes editorial illustrations and narrative works. Some interesting sketches synthesize built forms through simple textures created with parallel lines and different spacing, others are inspired by the graphic […]
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Mike Lee was born in Placentia, California and is currently based in New York City. He majored in Digital Media at Otis College of Art and Design and graduated in 2006. Fortunate enough to find a job in his field right out of school, Mike has been working in the feature film and commercial illustration industry for […]
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Today, the target for hunger reduction is on a global scale. In Asia Pacific, 12% of the population is in bad health because of a lack of food, and just in Vietnam from 2014 to 2016, this number is 11%, which means that 10.3 million people are underfed. Global climate change has been influencing […]
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Russian avant-garde artist El Lissitzky, made a career of utilizing art for social and political change. Although often highly abstract and theoretical, Lissitzky’s work was able speak to the prevailing political discourse of his native Russia, and then the nascent Soviet Union. Following Kazimir Malevich in the Suprematist idiom, Lissitzky used color and basic shapes […]
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California Academy of Sciences ( San Francisco, U.S.A) – Renzo Piano
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We took part in a competition to design a doll’s house to highlight issues affecting disabled children and to suggest solutions that would improve their life if translated to real houses. We were aware of how the many changes to the benefit system and rising rents have made it more difficult for disabled children and their […]
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Eric Wong Project The Rockefeller Foundation has tasked 100 cities, many of which are capital cities, to build greater resilience and a more inclusive economy. Cities are resilient when they are ‘united’. Inspired by ‘The Blazing World’ by Margaret Cavendish the Duchess of Newcastle, the 1666 novel follows a heroine who discovers a world where […]
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Which Starchitect Are You? These larger-than-life architects don’t just dress up skylines, they’ve got the DNA on Y-O-U. Find out which genius you most resemble. Do you live by the less-is-more philosophy like Richard Meier, or you are a curmudgeon like Frank Owen Gehry or visionary like Dame Zaha Hadid? Based on your building material of choice, your favorite drink, […]
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We propose a relatively old installation by Chilean office Pezo Von Ellrichshausen Architects, featuring a similar concept. From the authors’ description of the work: These five perimeters operate as fences that confine a progressive sequence of interiority and depth of the space. Seen from the outside the exterior perimeter is a compact horizontal block. In […]
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In 1970, Spanish architect Ricardo Bofill and his Taller de Arquitectura worked on a huge housing complex called La Ciudad en el Espacio (The City in the Space) which could acquire the characteristic of a whole neighborhood and provide the basis for a reflexion on the idea of city. Conceived to be “complex and flexible” at […]
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Rachel Duckhouse is a multi media artist who lives and works in Glasgow, UK. Her practice is based on the deep observation of patterns in natural systems and in human behavior, from the micro to the macro scale. Her etchings, screenprints, lithographs, watercolors and drawings on paper are the…
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