Azure Magazine

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Tree branches bob in a gentle breeze, and sculptures tower overhead. Parc de l’Estació del Nord is a case in point, seamlessly incorporating a mix of uses and functions into an ambitiously designed public space. Land art marks the entrance to Parc de l’Estació del Nord, and outdoor seating is dedicated to the park’s café.

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Azure Magazine

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

To mark the opening of notable new subway, train and bus stations, London, New York and Toronto recently commissioned a trio of bold public artworks. Photos by Nicholas Knight, courtesy Empire State Development and Public Art Fund, NY. In a bustling city, even familiar routines produce constant surprises. Photos by GG Archard.

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Azure Magazine

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

As one of China’s oldest and most prestigious institutions of higher learning , Nanjing University, and in particular its renowned Department of Art Studies and Education, warranted a cultural institution of equal stature. Shanghai-based firm Atelier Diameter has answered the call with an expansion of the university’s on-campus art gallery.

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Azure Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2022

Designing a home around an art collection is no mean feat. Allowing paintings and sculptures to take centre stage often means creating spartan environments inspired by the austere “white cube” of a modern gallery. The space remains a canvas for art, but a comfortable one.

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Azure Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

“At a time when sentiment is low, art and design have the power to lift people’s spirits,” says Anne-Laure Pingreoun, founder of London-based Alter-Projects. Art can transport and take the mind on a journey.” The post Wander Art Animates London with Playful — and Socially Distant — Installations appeared first on Azure Magazine.

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Inkbot Design

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

From 1919 to 1933, the Bauhaus united fine arts and crafts to create practical yet beautiful designs for the machine age. Bauhaus graphic designers embraced mixed-media collages, vibrant colours, and inventive typography to create posters, advertisements, magazines, and more that broke past conventions.

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Azure Magazine

AUGUST 23, 2021

With repeated museum closures, restrictions on outdoor and indoor gatherings, it’s been a difficult year for art lovers. Thankfully, many creatives still found ways to bring their inspiring ideas to the public. As an added detail, the sculpture can also be illuminated section by section, imitating the flow of water from river to sea.

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Azure Magazine

MARCH 31, 2022

It’s been a long couple of years for all of us, including artists and their supporters — with galleries shuttered, festivals cancelled and shows on hold, the world of visual art has largely been at a standstill. The city-wide exhibit will be free and accessible to the public for its whole 72-day run. Photo: Toni Hafkenscheid.

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Azure Magazine

MAY 23, 2024

But look closer, and you’ll start to appreciate the sculptural intricacies of the design. Diamond Schmitt adopted a similar strategy with its renewal of Ottawa’s National Arts Centre , as did Zooco Estudio in its renovation of the Cantabrian Maritime Museum’s restaurant.

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Azure Magazine

APRIL 5, 2023

From the street, the façade evokes a sculptural quality, with deep vertical brick piers and horizontal pre-cast concrete elements creating a series of recessed bays designed to complement the proportions of the adjacent streetscape. The tight urban site forced McLaughlin to build up rather than out, stacking the programs seven storeys high.

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Azure Magazine

DECEMBER 20, 2022

One of the biggest impacts of the newly expanded Art Gallery of New South Wales , in Sydney, Australia, is made at the programmatic level. It also has a renewed direction, one that foregrounds Indigenous art and culture. Yayoi Kusama created a sculpture for the North Building’s terrace. The Inaugural Exhibition.

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Azure Magazine

MARCH 12, 2021

Following an official naming ceremony in the fall of 2020, the word was bestowed on the Winnipeg Art Gallery’s new beacon — the long-awaited 3400-square-metre addition dedicated solely to the work of Inuit artists, past and present. Thus, many of the centre’s public programs — including the Katita cafe — occupy this area.

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Azure Magazine

JANUARY 12, 2024

First introduced during the spring installment, the new format for the show is centred around The Circles – content and event platforms that will serve as meeting points, showcases for products and concepts, and demonstrate the blurred boundaries between art and design.

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Colossal

OCTOBER 1, 2023

BLINK Cincinnati Call for Artists Featured With the highly anticipated return of its massive public art spectacle, BLINK, Illuminated by ArtsWave, is calling for artists working in light-based experiential installation, murals, projection mapping, digital art, or animation to submit proposals for the October 17 to 20, 2024, event.

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Inkbot Design

JANUARY 9, 2024

Here are the top picks in this category: Art and Design Books From modern to contemporary works, art books give designers eye candy to admire and draw ideas from. Some examples: Taschen’s The Art Book : A visual dictionary covering 500 influential artists and their most famous pieces from medieval times to today.

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Colossal

MAY 1, 2024

Submissions will be juried by Lauren Rosati, Associate Curator, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City and Maya Brooks, Assistant Curator, North Carolina Museum of Art. ARTS Southeast’s ON::View Artist Residency Program Featured Applications are now open for the On::View Artist Residency Program in Savannah, Georgia.

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Azure Magazine

APRIL 10, 2024

Even for modern art-lovers in major cities, it can be difficult to find the time to visit an exhibition. So what if the art came to you? In 2017, French industrial designer Matali Crasset reimagined the experience, showcasing collections from CNAP (The National Centre of Plastic Arts) and FRAC (Regional Contemporary Art Fund).

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Azure Magazine

JULY 27, 2022

While we await its opening — which could take between five and 10 years — a temporary immersive art pavilion designed by Studio Ossidiana will be used to develop and test ideas for the experimental gallery. Likewise, the community itself is inspiring the art. The M Museum is set to change that. Three circular forms comprise the design.

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Azure Magazine

JANUARY 5, 2024

Here at Azure, the annual tradition entails taking stock of the last 12 months of design, including public spaces , interiors , products , as well as residential and commercial architecture. Due to be completed imminently, the Hampi Art Labs is his most recent masterstroke. And every January, we turn the page and look forward.

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Colossal

JANUARY 4, 2022

The Aperture Portfolio Prize is an annual international competition that recognizes innovative bodies of work that haven’t been featured in major publications or exhibitions. One winner will be published in Aperture magazine, receive a $3,000 prize, and have a solo show in New York. The Other Art Fair. Deadline: 10:59 p.m.

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JANUARY 1, 2024

The winners, plus 20 shortlisted photographers, will be featured in and receive a copy of a special mini-photo publication. based artists and arts workers of any discipline are eligible to apply for this three-year fellowship. Applicants must subscribe to the magazine to enter. Deadline: January 12, 2024.

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Colossal

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The Madrid-based artist ( previously ) is known for her sculptures and still lifes in clay that resemble flat graphics and drawings, although her works require precise positioning and photographing before they’re printed in the pages of a magazine or children’s book.

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Illustration Art

JULY 20, 2022

As a young boy in Chicago, Oldenburg was thrilled by his mother's clipping of images from American magazines. After studying art at Yale, he found work drawing boll weevils for pesticide ads. He eventually moved from illustration to pop art, and then became internationally famous for his monumental sculptures and proposed public works.

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Azure Magazine

MAY 5, 2020

Now, the area near the south bank of the Huai River and at the heart of Anhui Province welcomes its latest landmark: the Shou County Culture and Art Center. This winding central public walkway continues past the stone-tilled outer walls to reveal generous courtyards framed by monumental reinforced concrete surfaces.

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Azure Magazine

JANUARY 28, 2022

“There is perhaps no other cultural area where Hungarian art has made a bigger impact than in music,” reads the Liget Budapest Project website. The Liget Budapest Project seeks to revitalize the 122-hectare City Park with a variety of new museums and public spaces.

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DECEMBER 1, 2022

More Art Commission (U.S.). More Art will commission one public art project from an early career artist with an $8,000 budget. Chosen entrants will also be featured in a miniature publication and on the site. Visual Art Open Prize (International). Socrates Sculpture Park Fellowship (International).

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Azure Magazine

MARCH 7, 2023

After graduating from the Kingston School of Art in 1976, Chipperfield pursued a design education at London’s Architectural Association (AA), graduating in 1980. His renovation enabled public access of the building for the first time. Recent projects, such as Venice’s Procuratie Vecchie , reflect these same sensibilities.

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Azure Magazine

DECEMBER 12, 2023

This is especially apparent in South Beach, where Ocean Drive presents a long row of art deco hotels splashed in pastel shades and illuminated by bright neon signage. That said, don’t mistake the city’s weeklong program of art and design events for a celebration of empty visual excess.

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Design Milk

AUGUST 12, 2022

Sculpture. I love the sculptures of Tony Cragg. Abstract sculpture is void of any functional and representational qualities – so why then does it even need to look right? As a child, long before I had ever heard of industrial design, I was, like most burgeoning designers, really into drawing, sketching, and art.

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Azure Magazine

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

More acutely, mounting economic disparities and racialized disinvestment effectively destroyed the neighbourhood through poor maintenance and public neglect. The event seeks to elicit new site specific and responsive conversations unlike other urban art festivals, which primarily focus on outsider or global perspectives.

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Azure Magazine

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Just this week, a trio of developers announced that Kengo Kuma and Associates will be introducing a new commercial complex in the city’s Design District — an area that already boasts a waterfall-esque façade treatment by Sou Fujimoto and eye-catching sculptures by the likes of Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec and Buckminster Fuller.

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Azure Magazine

AUGUST 17, 2020

As we soak up the last dregs of the dog days of summer, here are our top picks for five striking, and socially distant, public interventions: 1. Inside, a squat glass-and-wood cube houses a refreshment stand, tap-room for local craft beers and public washrooms (plus staff facilities). Murmuration by SO-IL. Wicker Pavilion by DJA.

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Colossal

MARCH 20, 2023

All images © Agnes Hansella, shared with permission In a Time Magazine article published during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, scientist Elizabeth Fischer describes viruses and their aptness for destruction. Inside the gallery were several sculptures of phages, a tall navicula, and the infamous coronavirus.

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Eye on Design

JULY 22, 2021

The couple had purchased large tracts of land in Bloomfield Hills with the hope of turning it into an experimental arts colony modeled on the American Academy in Rome and hired Finnish architect Eliel Saarinen to design a master plan, slowly turning their property into a series of schools, museums, and the Academy of Art, which opened in 1933.

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Azure Magazine

DECEMBER 22, 2023

As the year comes to a close, and we conclude our annual tradition of celebrating the best in design around the world — including public spaces , interiors , products , and houses — the dominant themes of 2023 are beginning to emerge. Enter Powerhouse Arts. Architecture is a reflection of the zeitgeist.

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Spine Magazine

MAY 7, 2021

As with any cover design we feature in our publications, we encourage you to head to your local library and/or bookstore to view the work in its full splendor when possible. McGill Queens' University Press Designer: Jeremy John Parker Art Director: Elena Goranescu I LOVE how fun this cover is! It's so subtle yet so dynamic.

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Azure Magazine

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Born in Egypt and raised in Lebanon, where her childhood was interrupted by the Lebanese Civil War, Khouri has since lived in Spain, Italy and France — where she was classically trained in sculpture at l’École du Louvre in Paris — before finally settling in Canada. Opening night Oct 1; open to public Oct 2 to 8. Hasting St.,

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