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. In no particular order below, we round up the most anticipated architecture for 2024. And every January, we turn the page and look forward.

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Design Milk

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

On view through April 23, 2023 at the Claremont Lewis Museum of Art in California, A Conversation With Trees exhibition showcases a series of monolithic sculptures and furniture carved out of recovered, fallen local trees from a windstorm in Claremont. One piece is made from the discarded wood scraps of his larger sculptures.

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Sculpture Exhibition Art Inspiration 98

Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Returning this month to Saudi Arabia is a unique art exhibition set in an ancient desert region of the Arabian Peninsula, using only the natural landscape and surroundings as inspiration. Dana Awartani Desert X AlUla 2022, photo by Lance Gerber. Jim Denevan Desert X AlUla 2022, photo by Lance Gerber.

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Design Milk

MARCH 17, 2022

Architect Zaha Hadid’s spirited career and dynamic, groundbreaking architectural work continues to inspire around the world through Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA). It will be on exhibit at HKDI Gallery, and virtually , through April 3rd. Near the entrance of the exhibition you’ll find The Peak project in Hong Kong.

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Azure Magazine

MAY 23, 2023

Now open to the public, the Venice Architecture Biennale is in full swing. Largely through the works of African and African Diaspora practitioners, the main exhibitions at the Central Pavilion and the Arsenale embrace visions for a future that sustains local communities and economies rather than globalized interests.

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Architecture Exhibition Arts and Crafts Illustration 104

Design Milk

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Design made in Puglia marks the first significant introduction of Pugliese design and production to the American market with an immersive exhibition showcasing handcrafted furnishings, materials, and objects from 11 exemplary regional brands. Bianco Cave by Fato Stone Exhibit Large vases with basic geometric shapes in Lecce stone.

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Azure Magazine

MAY 18, 2021

For the world’s most important architecture exhibition, the question is a mandate, a broad and all-encompassing challenge. On the occasion of the 17 th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia , architects are responding to curator Hashim Sarkis’s overarching theme in myriad ways and from various vantage points.

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Design Milk

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Autumn Leaf Series Writing Desk by Wei Jingye , Winner in Furniture Design Category, 2022-2023 Yimu Q7 Water Purifier With Analyzing System by Shenzhen Yimu Technology Co.,

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Fine Art Architecture Exhibition Sculpture 113

Design Milk

AUGUST 11, 2021

The latest exhibition by German-Iranian artist and designer Siba Sahabi titled “Imaginem Sui” is inspired by the relationship between European and Middle Eastern art and how they have historically influenced each other. The top black layer has diamond-shaped openings that act as windows into the architectural spaces created.

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Azure Magazine

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Architecture is a reflection of the zeitgeist. But, of course, aesthetics alone do not define the best architecture projects of 2023. The resulting project is informed by the surrounding Georgian architecture, fitting in seamlessly amongst the nearby churches and city hall.

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Architecture Arts and Crafts Self-employed Art 110

Colossal

JUNE 2, 2023

Photographs by Alum Gálvez In the hands of Eva Jospin , humble cardboard transforms into atmospheric forests, architectural wonders, and mysterious monuments. The article Mystical Forests Meet Cavernous Classical Interiors in Eva Jospin’s Cardboard Sculptures appeared first on Colossal.

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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. The first iteration of the traveling exhibition was spearheaded by architect Adam Kalkin — and built from a humble shipping container. Last year, the program included two 2023 exhibitions: “Musique!

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Design Milk

OCTOBER 5, 2022

From Thomas Barger’s aptly named “Butter Chair 2” to Germane Barnes’ hair pick-inspired “Uneasy Lies the Head That Wears the Crown (4),” the 45 works now on view at SFMOMA’s new furniture show are – as the show’s title suggests – a sculptural equivalent of an opinion piece, chairs with something important to say.

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Exhibition Interior Design Color Sculpture 84

Colossal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Photos by Red Photography, © Yukihiro Akama, courtesy of Yorkshire Sculpture Park, shared with permission In Huddersfield, England, a half hour’s drive down the road from Yorkshire Sculpture Park , artist Yukihiro Akama fashions a whimsical, miniature world from within a furniture maker’s workshop. After he moved to the U.K.

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Design Milk

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Crafted from a multitude of materials including ceramic and steel, this piece also exhibits an oxidized copper finish with limbs emerging from a chunky bed-like structure, transitioning from a static to kinetic force. by Carol Bove Carol Bove’s work is composed through the experimentation of modern metal sculpture. Photo: Courtesy P.P.OW

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Arts and Crafts Art Sculpture Gallery 107

Design Milk

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Plywood Sculpture (1943) – This is one of two extant large-scale molded plywood sculptures by Charles and Ray. Steinberg Diploma for Charles Eames (1950) – Charles studied architecture but never completed his degree. Using the Eames process, they molded and laminated plywood into aerodynamic forms for planes.

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Exhibition Sculpture Publication Gallery 114

Design Milk

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

“I aim to create a truly unique hand-crafted product from paper that celebrates the beautiful, unique architectural forms of nature,” said Wales-based paper artist Zoe Bradley. My challenge is always to create something unexpected and playful from a 2D sheet of paper into a magical 3D sculpture.”

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Design Milk

AUGUST 23, 2022

The loudest of the two sculptures is at Rockefeller Center, where contemporary artist Jeppe Hein tempts visitors to walk into circular fountain enclosures that rise and fall at unpredictable intervals. The work features five bronze sculptures that represent imagined sections rocks and roots, with real flowing water.

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Sculpture Artist Publication Gallery 94

Creative Boom

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Later, I attended architectural college, but it was too formal. Music, record covers, fashion, interiors, architecture, food, brand, and advertising were all cross-referencing each other. There was nothing else in the entire exhibition that used colour that way. Take this anecdote from the very start of his career. "I

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Azure Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2023

From November 29, 2023 to April 28, 2024, Canadian architect and artist Philip Beesley is exhibiting new work alongside his collaborator Dutch fashion designer Iris van Herpen at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. Photo: Kevan Cress 6/19 Installation view of Noogenesis sculpture by Philip Beesley & Living Architecture Systems Group.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 30, 2022

Growing an audience, Nikita started receiving commissions, and it wasn't long until he began working with his favourite music artists and exhibiting worldwide. Instead, it's like everything else – the "good and not-so-good architecture, passers-by with their taste in clothes, dogs, cats, flowers, ridiculous street signs," and so on.

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We And The Color

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Unveiling ‘RawMaterials’ at Hosek Contemporary: A Fusion of Myth and Modernity In the heart of Berlin’s vibrant art scene, Hosek Contemporary Gallery is set to host a groundbreaking exhibition titled ‘RawMaterials’ on the 2nd of October 2023 at 7 p.m. Full credits can be found at the end of the article.

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Arts and Crafts Gallery Exhibition Sculpture 111

Design Milk

DECEMBER 14, 2023

My favorite pieces from this year’s design exhibition featured bold, colossal, and playful forms all utilizing an eclectic mix of fun materials – each very well distinguished from one another, all still oozing that unmistakably cheeky and cheerful yet unorthodox design aesthetic I’m enamored by.

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Azure Magazine

JANUARY 27, 2020

From South America to northern Norway, a modest cancer care centre to spectacular museums, the noteworthy architecture slated for completion this year varies widely in scale, function and locale. Marquee Manhattan real estate is for the one per cent of the one per cent – what makes this project special is its architectural ambition.

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Azure Magazine

APRIL 9, 2024

1 A Surrealist Ball The Fiera Milano Rho is never lacking for cinematic appeal thanks to the sweeping, Studio Fuksas-designed canopy sheltering the exhibition centre’s main walkway. Inspired by the flow of water — and enhanced by projection mapping techniques — the stand seems set to blend together a spa day and an art exhibition.

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Exhibition Brand Branding Filmmaking 122

Design Milk

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Slightly wacky and reminiscent of enlarged stacking toys for children, this group of abstract marble sculptures was brought to life. The grey, white, and black sculptures are otherworldly in their forms, full of imagination just waiting to be tapped. ” Botánica is destined to stay the same size, shape, and color.

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Sculpture Travel Exhibition Patterns 87

Inkbot Design

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

His concept was to remove the artificial separation between fine arts like painting and sculpture and applied crafts like typography, ceramics, and textiles. Lucia Moholy, for example, photographed tubular steel chairs as floating sculptures. This made them icons of the architecture movement.

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Graphic Design Presentation Graphic Arts and Crafts 93

Design Milk

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Morris Adjmi , founder and principal of Morris Adjmi Architects , has found the sweet spot between traditional and contemporary architecture that delights both forward-thinking developers and history-minded preservationists. ” It was a pivotal realization that directed Morris’s philosophy moving forward.

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Azure Magazine

JANUARY 23, 2024

AZURE is pleased to announce the 10 esteemed jurors of the AZ Awards 2024, who represent the very best from the worlds of architecture, urbanism, interiors, furniture and more. Her firm, Tawaw Architecture Collective h as offices in both Phoenix and Calgary. These include the Julis Romo Rabinowitz and Louis A.

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Azure Magazine

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Noteworthy buildings emerged from a landscape of blue-glass condominiums – think Saucier + Perrotte’s River City – but the country’s most prolific architecture was seldom also its best. It’s affordable housing with a sense of community – and architectural flair. 60 Richmond Street East by Teeple Architects, 2010.

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Architecture Arts and Crafts Art Publication 119

Azure Magazine

JANUARY 12, 2024

Touching on cultural traditions and artistic impulses that often-times characterize hospitality, the circle evokes the ethereal beauty of James Turrell’s temple architecture and will feature compelling art objects by Vienna-based multidisciplinary talent Quirin Krumbholz.

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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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Exhibition Sculpture Fashion Gallery 87

Design Milk

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Large-Scale Ceramics That Are Both Eye-Catching + Functional SCP presented an exhibition of new, large-scale ceramic works by Dutch designer Floris Wubben during this year’s London Craft Week to showcase a series that fuses function with sculpture. And the most popular art post of 2023 is… 1.

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Design Milk

AUGUST 25, 2023

’ That chair and that philosophy left a lasting impression on me, and today I almost exclusively work within that blurry space between art, design, craft, sculpture, autobiography, and history. They seemed so delicate and yet the lines on them were architectural, I can’t quite explain why but I looked at that image a lot.

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Colossal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

All images shared © Elias Sime, courtesy of GRIMM and James Cohan Gallery, shared with permission Thousands of microchips, terminals, nails, letter keys, and lengths of wire transform into spectacular, monumental sculptures by acclaimed Ethiopian artist Elias Sime.

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Arts and Crafts Gallery Sculpture Photography 85

Design Milk

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

MAKHNO Studio , a Ukrainian studio dedicated to contemporary Ukrainian architecture, interior design, and ceramics, was tasked to thoughtfully update a section of a century-old house in Kyoto in respect to this enduring spirit of ancient Japanese culture – to carefully add “a drop of Ukrainian color to the Japanese context.”

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Azure Magazine

MARCH 14, 2023

In Xi’an, China, the Qujiang Museum of Fine Arts is focused on the restoration and exhibition of ancient Chinese murals. Located just south of the Giant Wild Goose Pagoda, a World Heritage site, the museum sought to become an architectural landmark in its own right.

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