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. Sunrise, Sunset, Sunrise.

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Azure Magazine

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Clad in rough, earthen-brown clinker bricks, the ten-storey hotel is defined by its stacked, sculptural façade, which brings a dynamic sense of movement to the complex. The post A Munich Neighbourhood Carves Out Space for Community appeared first on Azure Magazine. The HWKN-designed Scandic München Macherei hotel is a showpiece.

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We And The Color

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

WE AND THE COLOR WE AND THE COLOR is the top blog on the list for online magazines. Whether you are a fan of painting, sculpture, photography, or any other form of art, you will find something that interests you and challenges you on this art blog. You can find out more about their website, their magazine, and their events.

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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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Azure Magazine

APRIL 8, 2024

When it comes to replacing an existing venue, the emphasis is often on making the new facility more accessible to the public than its predecessor. Open to the public, the St Lawrence Centre for the Arts reimagined and expanded ground floor would open on two sides to a park and new plaza. At a recent town hall event at the St.

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Inkbot Design

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

Bauhaus graphic designers embraced mixed-media collages, vibrant colours, and inventive typography to create posters, advertisements, magazines, and more that broke past conventions. His concept was to remove the artificial separation between fine arts like painting and sculpture and applied crafts like typography, ceramics, and textiles.

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Azure Magazine

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The now 565-square-metre space deftly marries texture, striking forms and public space to create a cultural hub for the school. Each of the gallery’s floors is visually connected to the street and the original bridge, rendering the space accessible to both the student population and the public.

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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. And every January, we turn the page and look forward. In 2024, there’s plenty to look forward to.

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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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Azure Magazine

JULY 28, 2021

Part of a grander plan to reinvigorate Mainz’s harbourfront through a 12,000 square metre masterplan (consisting of two separate edifices with a public plaza at their centre), the ZigZag building also acts as a noise buffer separating the plaza from the remaining industrial zone.

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Azure Magazine

JULY 17, 2023

Situated on the site of a former highway off-ramp — which was rebuilt with a much more compact footprint to the north — the park is anchored by a water feature in the shape of a heart, and framed by a 165-metre red mosaic ribbon of public seating. When I passed through a day later, the place was packed. And at Love Park?

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Azure Magazine

MARCH 3, 2022

But from this dewy landscape, a sort of sculpture garden quietly emerges. The mixed-use complex comprises a trio of pavilions: an event centre capped with an elegant rooftop terrace, a two-storey public library and a smaller portico structure that acts as a sheltered outdoor meeting place. For better or worse, it takes a village.

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Azure Magazine

JULY 27, 2022

Drawing inspiration from Weerwater Lake, which surrounds the town, the design duo — Alessandra Covini and Giovanni Belloti — have created a floating gallery and public space on the grounds of, and as a central component of the international horticulture exhibition Floriade Expo 2022. Three circular forms comprise the design.

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Colossal

MAY 1, 2024

Open Calls ArteAlta (International) This annual competition organized by Alina Art Foundation, Inarttendu, and the Council of the Region Valle d’Aosta invites artists to submit work across painting, sculpture, photography, mixed media, textiles, paper, and video related to the theme of Fear. Deadline: May 1, 2024. Deadline: 11:59 p.m.

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Azure Magazine

MARCH 7, 2023

Beyond creating a new cultural icon for the city, the project demonstrated Chipperfield’s ardent consideration of the public realm — an ethos that has defined many of his noteworthy projects. His renovation enabled public access of the building for the first time. This notion of access is the throughline that runs through the project.

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Azure Magazine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

As for the latter, it’s a striking three-metre-high steel sculpture mounted just east of where Gould Street meets Nelson Mandela Walk in downtown Tkaronto (Toronto). While the school’s lack of name reflects a temporary institutional limbo, the absence of a formal title for Two Row’s sculpture has a more intentional genesis.

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Azure Magazine

JANUARY 28, 2022

The Liget Budapest Project seeks to revitalize the 122-hectare City Park with a variety of new museums and public spaces. Its first initiative is House of Music, a part-museum, part-concert hall cultural hub opened to the public on January 23.

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Azure Magazine

APRIL 10, 2024

Finally, the lime-green alcove is a raised platform that serves as a screening room or houses large-scale sculptures or other standalone works. The post A French “Truck Museum” Travels the World in Style appeared first on Azure Magazine. Here, you can find artworks mounted to the walls or presented on pedestals.

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Azure Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2020

For the town of Drummondville, an hour’s drive east of Montreal, the new public library also doubles as an impressively multi-functional venue designed to host everything from stage performances and markets to hockey games and children’s day camps. Outside, new landscaping amplifies the library’s public-facing presence.

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Azure Magazine

AUGUST 23, 2021

Thankfully, many creatives still found ways to bring their inspiring ideas to the public. Various mechanical sculptures, automata and kinetic structures attract the visitor’s eye, but the crux of the experience lies in its immersive nature. In the city of Foshan, China, an oversized clock makes its home in a public square.

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Azure Magazine

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Read the Magazine. In addition to our AZ Awards roundup, October’s issue includes the sculptural new home of a Czech winery using architecture to promote terroir , British-Ghanaian designer Kusheda Mensah’s buzz-generating modular furniture , and a surf-inspired design scheme for a hip Vancouver taco joint.

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Azure Magazine

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

From adaptable seating systems to sculptural lighting, these new releases bring this signature aesthetic to objects of all sizes. Consisting of two side and one coffee table (in two heights and three diameters), the series expertly translates the designer’s sinuous language into a sculptural object that feels at once classic and contemporary.

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Azure Magazine

JULY 21, 2022

Featuring the NCC-01, a fully upholstered club chair, and the sculptural yet laid-back A-S01 two-seater, the entire collection is made from Japanese oak and merges the design sensibilities of each of the collaborators. Set to be available to the public in the fall, the Karimoku collection creates a serene ambiance inside the lush glasshouse.

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Inkbot Design

JANUARY 9, 2024

A History from Impressionism to Today Over 200 paintings, sculptures, photographs, and conceptual pieces Length: 7.75in / 20cm, Depth: 2in / 5cm, Width: 6in / 15cm By Hans Werner Holzwarth Hardcover 696 pages −$9.41 $15.59 National Geographic's Greatest Landscapes captures unique terrains across seven continents.

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Azure Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2022

Allowing paintings and sculptures to take centre stage often means creating spartan environments inspired by the austere “white cube” of a modern gallery. The post A Berlin Penthouse Where Art Meets Design appeared first on Azure Magazine. Designing a home around an art collection is no mean feat.

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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. 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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Colossal

JANUARY 1, 2024

The winners, plus 20 shortlisted photographers, will be featured in and receive a copy of a special mini-photo publication. Applicants must subscribe to the magazine to enter. Booooooom Photo Awards Featured Photographers are invited to submit images in one of five categories, each with a $1,000 top prize. Deadline: January 12, 2024.

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Azure Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

The public face of the redesigned Montreal Biodome, completed this year by local architects KANVA , appears spectacularly simple. This elegant and gentle conversation with the city’s former Olympic Velodrome could be mistaken as sculptural play for its own sake. But nothing is that simple in the Biodome.

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Azure Magazine

MARCH 2, 2022

Another major attribute that the structures share is a circulation network centred on sculptural staircases that connect their ground floors to their top tiers, and every space in between — from intimate lounges and flexible seminar spaces to tiered seating. The space is part of the street level, which the school makes open to the public.

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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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Creative Market

JULY 15, 2021

They range from paintings to sculptures to photography to everything in between. Because of the kitschy approach to art, which was meant to actually be his ode to modern culture, his Soup Cans were initially received by critics and the public as something offensive. That’s an artwork that combines elements of painting and sculpture.

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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? ” Tulip Public Seating by Tulpi. I love this tulip-shaped public seating in the Netherlands by the Dutch company Tulpi. Scott Henderson.

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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 movement does not ask current residents to vacate their homes but maintains that Indigenous governance is possible, sustainable, and preferred for public lands. Louis City SC.

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Azure Magazine

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

To honour the history of the site, natural marshes, woodlands and wet meadows, as well as an old bocage grid — a verdant pastiche of sculptural trees and sunken lanes — have been expertly preserved with ecology and economy of means in mind. The post A Sculptural Sports Facility Lands in Laval, France appeared first on Azure Magazine.

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Azure Magazine

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Elsewhere in the Miami Design District , UK-based Bohinc Studio’s bubbly Utopia seating sculptures were another eco-conscious delight. This wasn’t Ross’s only big Miami project, either — he was also behind Formation 01, a sculptural Kohler faucet unveiled at Design Miami/.

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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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Azure Magazine

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

The National Capital Commission is now seeking input from the public to help choose the winning project: the survey is open to all and will close on November 28. The post Ottawa Unveils Shortlisted Designs for LGBTQ2+ National Monument appeared first on Azure Magazine.

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