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The Many Layers of Cornelia Oberlander’s Landscapes

Azure Magazine

Honoured with monographs, biography, every kind of award, and now an exhibition of her work organized by the West Vancouver Museum and the Art Gallery of Alberta. Public architectural talks by architects were rare at that time and place, but two landmark events helped galvanize her ambition. “And they said: ‘That’s too political.

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The State of Branding: New York (From New York Flags, to New York Brands)

Canny

This seems to us to present the idea of New York’s position in the world as the economic bridge between the East and the West. Finally, the motto ‘Excelsior’ is presented on the white ribbon at the bottom of the seal, representing a brighter and better future. Did You Know Grand Central Station Has a Whispering Gallery?

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Bata-Ville: A Shoe Company’s Quest for Global Utopia

Azure Magazine

Converted into offices, condos, galleries and lofts, former warehouses and factories are home to a new urban economy — one fuelled by laptops, real estate and the flow of global financial capital. a became the company’s public face. a’s history continued to hover over his nephew’s public image. In 1947, Ba?a’

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Thirty hypotheses on interface aesthetics

UX Collective

In other words, Aesthetics, a concept which at the time did not exist, is then presented as the basic pleasure of the senses. The interface of the Gran Turismo 4 game had met with great success by presenting a menu in the form of a map of a city whose interactive elements are in 3 dimensions ( [link] ).

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

Creative Review

Opening this summer at London’s Saatchi Gallery, JR: Chronicles is a new exhibition encompassing over 15 years of JR’s brand of art as activism. 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.

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What Do We Mean By Queer Space?

Azure Magazine

With the publication of homemaking guides such as 1969’s American Women’s Home , which included a chapter dedicated to the requirements of a proper “Christian Home,” the domestic interior took on a new role as the locus of constructing normative ideas of family, gender, class, race and, of course, sexuality. In doing so, Stalled!

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Meet the Jury for the 2021 AZ Awards!

Azure Magazine

Founded in Milan in 2001, her eponymous studio focuses on these industrial product design projects as well as architecture, art direction and strategy consulting. Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto established his eponymous firm in 2000, after graduating from Tokyo University’s Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering.