Narrated by Dustin Hoffman, VISUAL ACOUSTICS celebrates the life and career of Julius Shulman, the world’s greatest architectural photographer, whose images brought modern architecture to the American mainstream. Shulman, who passed away this year, captured the work of nearly every modern and progressive architect since… Read More
It’s the seventy-fifth anniversary of The Cloisters, a museum in Fort Tryon Park, Washington Heights, New York City, which is a branch of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It was built in the 1930s resembling architectural elements of several European medieval abbeys. It is used… Read More
Short documentary about two art installations by London-based art and design practice United Visual Artists. Canopy + Connection are located in Toronto and were commissioned by Lanterra Developments, Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment and Cadillac Fairview Corporation Ltd. for their Maple Leaf Square development. United… Read More
The famous Wilshire Grand Hotel in Los Angeles (originally the Statler—then Statler-Hilton) closed its doors In May 2012. The owners sold whatever was found inside the old hotel in a big sale. While clearing the building workers discovered a fifteen-foot mosaic mural commissioned by The… Read More
Grand Hotel: Redesigning Modern Life is a ground-breaking exhibition exploring the impact of the hotel as one of the pre-eminent architectural and social structures of our time. Conceived by independent curator and writer Jennifer M. Volland and created exclusively for the Vancouver Art Gallery, Grand… Read More
The construction of the Palestinian Museum has officially started. Palestinians have laid the groundstone at Birzeit University, near Ramallah on the West Bank, in a ceremony with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas as the guest of honor for the world’s largest museum devoted to their history…. Read More
To mark Carré d’Art’s 20th birthday, Norman Foster has been invited to curate an anniversary exhibition to open on May 2nd 2013. This is an exceptional show on two counts, both because this is the first time that Norman Foster is to curate an exhibition… Read More
This is the story of one of the greatest operas ever written, and the opera house in Cairo in which it premiered. When the famous Khedivial Opera House in Cairo was completely destroyed by fire in 1971, it was replaced by a three storey parking… Read More
Built in 1937, Doris Duke’s Shangri La house in Hawaii is hiding an impressive collection of Islamic art and is considered one of the islands most architecturally significant homes. The Shangri La is also a center for Islamic arts and cultures offering guided tours, residencies… Read More
“Henri Labrouste: Structure Brought to Light”, the first solo exhibition of Labrouste’s work in the United States, highlights his work as a key milestone in the evolution of modern architecture, libraries in particular. The exhibition is on view from March 10 to June 24, 2013…. Read More
