Azure Magazine

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

He also spearheaded the initiative to rename 10 New York parks to honour nine renowned Black men and women with roots in the city, including James Baldwin and Ella Fitzgerald, and one Black organization – an accomplishment officially celebrated on Black Solidarity Day in 2020. They responded, ‘You can.’”

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Azure Magazine

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Following a 2020 call for design proposals, five shortlisted concepts were recently selected out of a group of 30 submissions from across Canada and around the world. Following a 2020 call for design proposals, five shortlisted concepts were recently selected out of a group of 30 submissions from across Canada and around the world.

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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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Design Week

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

This inspired a “garden of sculptures”, which itself centred around a baby wolf carved out of basalt by sculptor Matthías Rúnar Sigurðsson. This sculpture was then digitally manipulated for application across print and digital touchpoints. Non-event posters, by Lydia Leith.

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Azure Magazine

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

On the fourth floor of an understated Adelaide Street office tower, a sculptural ribbon weaves together a dynamic new office for award-winning architectural practice and integrated design firm Lemay. The post Design at All Scales: Lemay’s New Chapter appeared first on Azure Magazine. Quebec’s Grand Theatre.

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Azure Magazine

JUNE 1, 2020

On May 31, 2020, influential contemporary artist Christo — who wrapped bridges, monuments, museums and even parliaments — passed away at his New York home at the age of 84. Architecture critic Michael Kimmelman even described the project as the “first great public art event of the 21st century.” .

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Feature Shoot

JULY 11, 2022

She’d pitched the idea in a Panera Bread while chatting with Ruth Samuel, who was then the Editor-in-Chief of The Bridge , an online community for women and non-binary people of color at UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke University: a 21 Under 21 photo series , inspired by spreads in magazines like Forbes and Vogue. Patsy Maldonado Montesinos.

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Azure Magazine

AUGUST 26, 2021

Combining condo blocks with ample public amenities, the ongoing development — initiated in 2002 — is knitting a once-isolated neighbourhood back into the city. And in an era of limited public investment, the partnership with private developers meant that all those new condominiums helped pay for improved social housing. Doublesapce.

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Azure Magazine

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Fortin hosted The Design Lodge symposium, an Indigenous round-table that culminated in the publication of an incisive essay challenging the colonial role of the studio as the fulcrum of design pedagogy. Shortly thereafter, the school also welcomed an Indigenous sculpture onto the heart of the campus.

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Azure Magazine

DECEMBER 10, 2021

In all those rounded curves, a subtle geometry of angles amplifies the sofa’s sense of depth, introducing a sculptural quality that elevates the design. At their Annual Briefing meeting in 2021, Danish manufacturer +Halle asked a contentious question: “How do we gain collective trust in a public space?”

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Azure Magazine

MARCH 3, 2020

On March 3, Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara of Dublin-based Grafton Architects were announced as the winners of the 2020 Pritzker Architecture Prize. In 2007, for example, their Solstice Arts Centre in Navan, Ireland transformed a parking lot-cum-weekend market into a sculptural visual-arts complex. Solstice Arts Centre.

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Azure Magazine

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

Here, in the heart of the capital city’s cluster of symbolic public architecture, the National Monument to Canada’s Mission in Afghanistan is poised to add to a place of cultural reckoning. Rather than aesthetic taste, the fundamental failure is one of public process and civic discourse. What should it look like?

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Azure Magazine

DECEMBER 8, 2020

In the last 10 months, we’ve witnessed our homes take on new meaning (and new dimensions) following global lockdowns that compressed the spheres of life and work, public and private between its studs. A multi-generational family house with a sculptural concrete staircase that extends all the way out the door.

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Azure Magazine

AUGUST 26, 2021

Made with acoustic foam, the seat contributes to noise reduction in open offices and other public spaces; it can be used alone or in multiples that group together to create expansive landscapes. Featuring sculptural PET. Nov/Dec 2020. October 2020. September 2020. Mar/Apr 2020. Jan/Feb 2020.

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Azure Magazine

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Fittingly, their pseudo-studio sketches and design drawings fill the architectural environment alongside cardboard prototypes mounted just beneath the barrel vaulted ceiling with finished products below, such as the duo’s recent line of lighting sculptures Earth to Sky as well as the Uchiwa armchair (shown above) for Danish brand HAY.

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Azure Magazine

JANUARY 20, 2020

The jury will meet in Toronto in March to evaluate the entries to the AZ Awards 2020, the winners of which will be announced in June. To submit to the AZ Awards 2020, go to awards.azuremagazine.com. The deadline is Tuesday, February 18, 2020 (early bird deadline is January 31). The post AZ Awards 2020: Meet the Jury!

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Azure Magazine

JULY 1, 2020

Based in Yellowknife (and with offices in Whitehorse and Ottawa), the firm extensive portfolio includes some of the North’s most prominent public and institutional architecture, including Yellowknife’s masterfully contextual Legislative Assembly and Inuvik’s technically sophisticated Western Arctic Research Centre.

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Azure Magazine

MAY 21, 2021

Accompanied by renderings of a sculptural, green-scaped glass tower, the announcement of the tech giant’s new marvel in Arlington, Virginia, reverberated through the design press; the complex, dubbed The Helix, was showcased in Curbed , Dezeen , The Architect’s Newspaper , Designboom and Architectural Digest , to name a few. To what end?

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Azure Magazine

AUGUST 31, 2020

While he was still a student, his early works on paper were exhibited in a number of shows at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis; he went on to complete his first public structure, fittingly titled First Bridge , in White Bear Lake in 1968. PHOTO: Public Art Fund/Timothy Schenck. metre-high end point. It should enhance a given place.”

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Creative Boom

JULY 18, 2023

In recent months, they've teamed up with Kiehl's, FT Weekend Magazine, Selfridges, The Design Museum and The Guardian, to name but a few. Brilliant Artists Brilliant Artists is a compact London-based agency founded in 2020 that represents a tightly curated roster of established and up-and-coming illustrative talent.

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UX Collective

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Not the distractingly picturesque sunset roiling about on the surface of twilight waters, nor high pitched squeals from children climbing on a bronze wolf sculpture next to the second oldest bar in California - Heinholds First and Last Chance. I disagree with the “ok on public transportation” bit. The first step?

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Azure Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

He is currently working on a series of limited-edition sculptural pieces for a 2021 solo exhibition at the Friedman Benda Gallery in New York and creating a pavilion for the London Design Biennale. In 2020, her Gowanus Canal Sponge Park project won the inaugural Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian National Design Award for Climate Action.

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Azure Magazine

DECEMBER 10, 2019

And then there’s the runaway success of ride-sharing apps like Uber and Lyft, whose popularity has transformed private cars into public services – all while increasing congestion and reducing transit use in their wake (more on this trend below). Stefan Novakovic. PHOTO: Miguel Ángel Hernández. Danny Sinopoli. Elizabeth Pagliacolo.

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