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Creating Cape Town’s Zeitz MOCAA

The challenge to repurpose what was once the tallest building on the Cape Town skyline caught the imagination of internationally acclaimed designer Thomas Heatherwick and his innovative team of architects. This was a chance to do more than just appropriate a former industrial building to display art, but to imagine a new ...

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Mind-Blowing Architectural Details with 3D Printing

"Digital Grotesque" consists of two full-scale 3D printed grottos. Created by architects Michael Hansmeyer and Benjamin Dillenburger, the newest edition, "Grotto II," is a commission by Centre Pompidou, and recently premiered for the Centre Pompidou in Paris. It is a highly ornamental structure out of 7 tons of printed sandstone ...

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Capturing 532 Frank Lloyd Wright Structures

Phoenix-based photographer Andrew Pielage has a goal of shooting all 532 Frank Lloyd Wright structures that exist. His love for Wright came after he first toured Taliesin West, Wright’s former winter home outside of Phoenix. Although photography wasn’t allowed on the tour, later a friend ...

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A Bird’s Eye View of Hong Kong

“Wěndìng Fánróng” is a two channel HD video installation that was created by Artist Mariana Bisti in Hong Kong as part of a 10-week residency at the Academy of Visual Arts in Hong Kong. Shot via drone, the video captures the geometric lines of the city’s soaring, dense towers and also something of its street life and vitality ...

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Building Lego House

The small Danish town of Billund has a new museum and experience center dubbed the ‘House of the Brick’ . . . Lego House. Dubbed ‘the house of brick’, the grand opening was on September 28.. Lego House is a vibrant three-dimensional village of interlocking buildings and spaces, with the structure designed to look like a giant stack of ...

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A New Museum in Berlin Celebrates Art from the Streets

A new museum celebrating the art of graffiti has opened its doors in Berlin, Germany. The Urban Nation Museum for Urban Contemporary Art (UN Museum), which opened on Bülowstrasse, was developed to document and promote street art and graffiti. More than 130 urban artists ...

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The largest Michelangelo exhibition in the Met’s history

The Met’s upcoming exhibition, “Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman Designer,” will present a stunning range and number of works by the artist: approximately 150 of his drawings, three of his marble sculptures, his earliest painting, his wood architectural model for a chapel vault, as well as a substantial body of ...

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Inspired by nature’s cellular architectures via 3D printing

Research offers new level of control over the structure of 3D-printed materials. Inspired by natural cellular structures, researchers at Harvard and MIT have developed a new method to 3D print materials with independently tunable macro-and microscale porosity using a ceramic foam ink. Their approach could be used to ...

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Getty Acquires Gehry Archives

The Getty Research Institute recently announced the acquisition of a major archive of the world-renowned architect Frank Gehry. The Frank Gehry Papers cover more than thirty years of his singular career and includes comprehensive material on some of his best-known projects. The acquisition is part purchase and part ...

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