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Future Rust, Future Dust: Loïc Vendrame's series explores the ruins of the modern world

Creative Boom

The financial crisis of 2008 is the most recent climax of the modern world's economic turmoil and has spread from the United States to affect the entire world. It plunged many countries into an economic slump, with the booming – often beyond reason – construction sector as the first affected sector."

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Can Public Policy Fix Canadian Architecture?

Azure Magazine

Whether the conversation hinged on Toronto’s dispiritingly generic condos, the lack of opportunities for emerging firms, the middling state of institutional architecture, or the general paucity of public engagement with contemporary buildings, the dialogue circled an invisible drain that eventually arrives at two inevitable words: Design culture.

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Jean Jullien's bold, graphic underwater world will awaken your inner child

Creative Boom

He graduated from Central Saint Martins in 2008 and the Royal College of Art in 2010. His work has been exhibited extensively around the world, including presentations in Paris, London, Los Angeles, New York and Berlin.

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Artistic rebel, urban poet: new book celebrates the iconic photography of Saul Leiter

Creative Boom

Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective presents the full spectrum of his artistic output for the first time, including rare and previously unpublished material. The publication marked a turning point in his life, with Leiter being hailed, seemingly out of the blue, as a photographer to be reckoned with.

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A new show is presenting over 15 years of JR’s thought-provoking art

Creative Review

His identity has remained loosely concealed by a hat and sunglasses throughout this time, due to the legal and safety risks associated with his public installations around the world. This includes one of his earliest projects, Expo 2 Rue, where he documented graffiti artists and presented the images in the streets. Pei, Louvre Museum.

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Jamstack CMS: The Past, The Present and The Future

Smashing Magazine Graphics

Jamstack CMS: The Past, The Present and The Future. Jamstack CMS: The Past, The Present and The Future. MovableType was one of the first static site generators on the market, although that term wouldn’t become popular until 2008. Mike Neumegen. 2021-08-20T08:00:00+00:00. 2021-08-20T09:19:47+00:00. Templates. Large preview ).

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Riken Yamamoto Wins 2024 Pritzker Architecture Prize

Azure Magazine

Demonstrating a diverse mastery of scale, one side of the building features an expansive uniform façade, while the other unlocks its own city that evokes medieval towns of Switzerland imbued with new technologies evolved for present and future lifestyles. Fussa City Hall, 2008, Tokyo, Japan. PHOTO: Sergio Pirrone.