ArchDaily

APRIL 11, 2024

As a symbol of perfection, marble facilitated intricate craftsmanship for decorative elements, inspiring architectural marvels and exquisite art, leaving a legacy of sophistication and refinement. Today, marble remains a symbol of excellence and refinement, prevalent in contemporary architecture and art.

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Archinect

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Kengo Kuma and Associates has completed an overhaul of the Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian (CAM) in Lisbon , marking the acclaimed architect’s first completed project in Portugal.

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Deezen

MARCH 3, 2025

One hundred years ago this April, the Exposition Internationale des Arts Dcoratifs introduced art deco to the world. To kick off our Art Deco Centenary series, Kathleen Murphy Skolnik gives an overview of the style. New York's Chrysler Building is an art deco icon. Greyhound created several streamline bus stations.

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Architizer

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Inspired by her global experiences, she shares captivating insights into the world’s most extraordinary cities and buildings and provides travel tips on her blog, The Travel Album. The best way to navigate this tension is usually by guiding clients through a design process that educates, inspires and reassures.

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SW Oregon Architect

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

Eugene Public Library (photo credit: Eckert & Eckert) This is another in my series of posts inspired by 1000 Awesome Things , the Webby Award-winning blog written by Neil Pasricha. The series is my meditation on the awesome reasons why I was and continue to be attracted to the art of architecture. What makes a design timeless?

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Deezen

MARCH 20, 2025

Southeast London 's Eltham Palace is an unusual marriage of medieval and Tudor architecture and the opulent interior-design choices of 1930s millionaires, which forms the next instalment in our Art Deco Centenary series. It wasn't until Seely & Paget's art deco project that the site was catapulted into the contemporary design scene.

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designboom

AUGUST 7, 2024

scheduled for completion in 2025, the design reimagines the traditional garden 'lang', framing gardens with outdoor art installations and coalescing into 12 pavilions. The post BIG’s garden-inspired suzhou museum of contemporary art celebrates top out appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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Archinect

AUGUST 14, 2024

Each year, the Graham Foundation ’s coveted Carter Manny Awards honor the scholarship of doctoral candidates and their research projects which contribute new narratives to our contemporary understanding of architecture and its bearings on the arts, culture, and society. The Awards are bestowed in honor of late architect Carter H.

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Deezen

MARCH 13, 2025

Art deco is starting to challenge mid-century modern 's dominance, says Vinterior founder Sandrine Zhang Ferron in this interview as part of our Art Deco Centenary series. In the second half of 2024, the volume of art deco sales tripled. Art deco comes in because you have all these very precious materials marble, brass.

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Archinect

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Squire & Partners has designed art’otel Hoxton, the London flagship of a contemporary collection of hotels in Europe fusing architectural style with art-inspired interiors. art'otel Hoxton will include creative studios, an arts hub, spa and cinema space.

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Architizer

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Showcase your work through Architizer and sign up for our inspirational newsletters. From the influential Sorbonne in the Middle Ages to the renowned grandes écoles of today, French institutions have been pioneers of specialized education, inspiring generations of creative minds.

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

The design team worked with real estate developer Jacob Root to create the project with the hopes of diversifying the housing stock available to those interested in the area where new residential construction costs usually begin at $600,000.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Above: one of the studio's first major projects was the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa. True pioneers in the field, their unwavering commitment to sustainable, user-centred design has quietly blazed a trail for others, setting an inspiring standard for the future of our built environment," he continued.

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Deezen

APRIL 29, 2024

AIME Studio's interiors for the latest outpost of The Hoxton hotels, in a renovated marble-clad 1950s office building in Vienna , celebrate arts and crafts and post-war modernism. In the bedrooms , geographic patterned curtains are influenced by iconic Werkstätte fabrics and ruched headboards are inspired by Loos' style.

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Architizer

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Taken as a whole, their oeuvre has defined a contemporary architectural language that honors local context and tradition in more subtle and poetic ways, encouraging users to be radically in tune with their present moment and inspiring other architects to revisit the fundamentals of architecture for the future.

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Architizer

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

The latest edition of “ Architizer: The World’s Best Architecture ” — a stunning, hardbound book celebrating the most inspiring contemporary architecture from around the globe — is now available. Unlike the flowing lines and floral motifs of Art Nouveau, Cubism introduced angular, crystalline forms. Order your copy today.

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Architizer

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Showcase your work through Architizer and sign up for our inspirational newsletters. Le Corbusiers bton brut (raw concrete) concept inspired Brutalisms materiality. Notable examples include Paul Rudolphs Yale Art and Architecture Building (1963) and Marcel Breuers Whitney Museum of American Art (1966).

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The Spaces

MARCH 7, 2025

Aya Al-Bakree, chief executive of the Diriyah Biennale Foundation Courtesy Diriyah Biennale Foundation A contemporary culture specialist and a ‘power player leading Saudi Arabia’s cultural boom’, Aya Al-Bakree has not only become one of the most influential people at the heart of the Saudi art world but on a global stage.

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Hotel Designs

APRIL 8, 2025

Image credit: Amoh, a Luxury Collection Resort, Rhodes Guests can unwind in the elegantly appointed guestrooms and suites, featuring a contemporary design which references the islands mythological heritage and the Mediterranean.

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Architizer

MARCH 12, 2025

The latest edition of Architizer: The Worlds Best Architecture a stunning, hardbound book celebrating the most inspiring contemporary architecture from around the globe is now available. Its contemporary redesign focuses on how people are reclaiming the space and how design can regenerate this urban void.

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Archinect

JANUARY 7, 2025

” The Met 's new Tang Wing for Modern and Contemporary Art expansion architect details the idea of setting up an office inside the museum, which she said allowed her to gain perspective on the enormous undertaking she was about to embark on just a few months after being named David Chipperfield’s replacement in March of 2022.

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ArchDaily

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Architectural grafting , a concept recently popularized by Jeanne Gang in The Art of Architectural Grafting , presents a transformative approach to urban regeneration and sustainability. Image © Wojtek Gurak via Flickr under CC BY-NC 2.0 Read more »

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Architizer

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Showcase your work through Architizer and sign up for our inspirational newsletters. Lawrence River, the Laure Conan Library and City Hall in La Malbaie serves as a dynamic municipal and community center, blending contemporary architecture with the areas rich historical and natural narrative.

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Deezen

MARCH 20, 2025

French glassware brand Lalique has opened an art deco -informed flagship store in a 19th-century townhouse on New York City 's Upper East Side. Each space was designed to evoke the art deco glassware created by the brand's founder Ren Lalique, who was a leading designer in the movement during the 1920s.

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Aric Gitomer Architect

MAY 22, 2023

In this article, we’ll explore some wooden inspiration for your home, and offer tips and ideas for using this natural material to add warmth and beauty to your living spaces. Reclaimed wood can add a rustic and aged look to a room, while modern paneling offers a sleek and contemporary feel.

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Architizer

JANUARY 31, 2025

Despite their differences, these architectural expressions shared a common goal: to break away from historicism while creating an architecture that had not been produced before and responded to contemporary realities. Is contemporary architecture an extension of Modernism? What are the defining traits of Modern architecture?

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Architizer

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Showcase your work through Architizer and sign up for our inspirational newsletters. Minimalism emerged in the mid-20th century as a reaction against the ornamentation that characterized earlier 20th-century architectural styles, such as Classical Revival and Art Deco. Architects: Want to have your project featured?

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Iranian-French architect India Mahdavi has put her characteristic maximalist spin on PoMo, a contemporary art museum in Trondheim , Norway, with a salmon-pink gift shop and a mandarin-hued staircase. The pair sought to balance the building's history with references to Trondheim's skyline and Norwegian folk art and craftsmanship.

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ArchDaily

JUNE 13, 2023

For over two years, the studio has worked alongside the Arts and Cultural Development Foundation, designing the Center for Contemporary Arts and their initiatives to restore and rehabilitate vernacular houses, transforming them into artist residencies. Read more »

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Hotel Designs

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Most significantly, its striking interior design concept is attracting guests who truly appreciate the art of contemporary design. Architecturally, La Gemma Hotel marks a new era for this prestigious Florentine property and its transformation fittingly draws inspiration from its surroundings.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 14, 2024

He was born in Los Angeles in 1904 to an American mother and a Japanese father, In 1927 he left the US to work with sculptor Constantin Brancusi in his Paris studio, before travelling the world in the 1920s and 30s – journeys that would come to influence his work in both art and design. Isamu Noguchi began his career as a sculptor.

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Deezen

JULY 13, 2024

Dezeen School Shows: an installation featuring a film made using generative AI is included in Dezeen's latest school show by students at the Royal College of Art. He is the inaugural recipient of Ritzau Art Prize and an awardee of Sir Frank Bowling Scholarship at RCA."

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Archeyes

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

Ruby City is a striking example to the power of architecture to inspire and engage a community. This 14,000-square-foot contemporary art center, located in San Antonio, Texas, serves as a. The post Ruby City by David Adjaye: A Study in Materiality and Light appeared first on ArchEyes.

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Archinect

AUGUST 1, 2022

One of Chicago’s iconic pieces of public art will be getting a new home. It was inspired by Dubuffet’s 1960 series of paintings called Hourlope. Following last week’s $105 million sale of the Thompson Center to Google , the famed Dubuffet sculpture will be relocated to a former bank building at 115 S.

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ArchDaily

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Image Courtesy of Glamora Greek and Roman cultures laid the foundations for modern civilization, leaving a lasting legacy in philosophy, literature, mathematics, and art. In this modern context, the Greco-Roman mythology, epic tales, and classical architectural concepts inspire a fresh perspective on reimagining interior aesthetics.

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Deezen

AUGUST 22, 2024

An extension perched above a ranch house and a 3D-printed home designed by Lake Flato and ICON feature in this roundup of contemporary architecture in Austin , Texas. A carport also houses a pale-blue Thunderbird , which inspired the choice of a bright blue front door.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

This is the latest in our lookbooks series, which provides visual inspiration from Dezeen's archive. For more inspiration, see previous lookbooks featuring plywood panelling , colourful kitchens and moody bedrooms. While the exterior was informed by the area's vernacular architecture, the interior includes more contemporary details.

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