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Concrete Hong Kong: learn about architecture through foldout models

Creative Boom

A new book celebrates the architecture of Hong Kong public housing in the 1950s-1980s. During the 1950s-1980s, when the colony was under British rule, public housing embraced the modernist architectural approach, and Hong Kong initiated mass housing projects that dramatically redeļ¬ned urban living. Weird, isn't it?

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Brett Morgen on Bowie, his BAFTA nomination and being inspired to live a fulfilled life

Creative Boom

My films are not about presenting facts and information, but trying to present the subjects in a uniquely-cinematic manner," says Morgen. "I His art is the best form of expression and the only way to present his journey. In every moment that I encountered his media, he was always present," he says. "He

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

Creative Boom

Future Rust, Future Dust began in 2016 and has taken LoĆÆc to Cyprus, Morocco, Portugal, Spain, Taiwan, Turkey and the UAE. These unfinished structures, frozen in time and space, becoming the future traces of a failing present, are witnesses to this big waste of ā€“ often public ā€“ money and ecological tragedies," says LoĆÆc. "As

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

Creative Boom

In 2016, he launched Nounou with Jae Huh, a Korea-based label producing various items, including clothing, graphic objects, rugs and dolls. His work has been exhibited extensively around the world, including presentations in Paris, London, Los Angeles, New York and Berlin.

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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 faƧade, while the other unlocks its own city that evokes medieval towns of Switzerland imbued with new technologies evolved for present and future lifestyles. Here, too, private homes meet the civic space ā€” a tree-lined central square.

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Looking Back, Moving Forward: How Public Health Shaped Toronto

Azure Magazine

As we enter yet another phase of the COVID-19 era, great thinkers across public health and planning are conceptualizing and re-conceptualizing major aspects of urban living. In order to truly understand these inequities, we need to engage with the longer, inseparable histories of public health and urban life in Toronto.

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Cowboys, Gangsters, and Intellectual Humor: The Illustrative World of Glen Baxter

Design You Trust

Baxter’s captivating artwork has graced the pages of notable publications such as The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and The Independent on Sunday. Presently, Baxter resides and continues to create art in London. The Impending Gleam, published in 1981, is one of his most recognized satirical works.