For more than 40 years, the German news magazine Der Spiegel has been located in Brandstwiete, Hamburg, in a building characterized by Verner Panton’s colorful pop art design. Spiegel Online and Spiegel TV had been situated at other locations in the city, but now the three divisions are consolidated...
Joe Doucet is an industrial designer who recently introduced his first-ever line of bespoke furniture called the WhyteLabel collection. During his career, he’s worked with Hugo Boss, BMW, Braun, Whirlpool, Target, YSL, Moet, Swarovski, 42 Below Vodka, and most recently, with Danish furniture company...
David A. Rubin, OLIN partner and recent Rome Prize recipient, has designed Lenfest Plaza for the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. The plaza was created by closing a 220’ length of Cherry Street, from Broad to Carlisle, close to the Philadelphia City Hall. In doing so, a true campus was made for the Academy,...
Samantha Cobos is an interior designer, a computer programmer and an artist when it comes to color, patterns and textiles. “I look at different shapes, rotate them, scribble on a piece of paper, and scan it in,” she says. “It’s all about color and patterns – mostly modern, for a busy lifestyle.”...
Olson Kundig Architects and the Seattle Art Museum (SAM) have settled into the same groove. The museum recently opened an exhibit by Theaster Gates, a groundbreaking artist who rescued 5,000 LPs and 3,000 45s from a record store known as Dr. Wax on Chicago’s South Side. Among them are sides containing...
The opening line in a new film by Jason Cohn and Bill Jersey on Charles and Ray Eames pays the ultimate compliment to a designer. “We weren’t sure what he was,” a contemporary solemnly intones about Charles Eames. “Was he an architect? Was he a designer? Was he a filmmaker? But what he was,...
On a 48-acre campus straddling the border between Queens and Nassau County, Skidmore Owings & Merrill’s Mustafa K. Abadan has designed a new structure to blend two hospitals into one oval-shaped form “The North Shore LIJ Women’s Hospital takes up the lower four floors, and two floors...
With its fourth iteration of “Mission Impossible,” Hollywood has discovered Dubai. Think of the Riviera and “To Catch a Thief,” or Rome and “La Dolce Vita.” High profile landscapes and architecture have been used by building owners, cities and other groups to build the brand for a place....
For 13 years from 1984 to 1997, Jeffrey Chusid lived in a Hollywood home designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1925 and modified in subsequent years by Rudolph Schindler, Richard Neutra, Gregory Ain and John Lautner. Wright’s son Lloyd served as supervising architect and contractor on the Freeman House,...
The revolutionary advent in international container shipping during the past 40 years has resulted in one very interesting, if unintended, consequence: Europe’s largest mixed-use development, called HafenCity – or HarborCity – in Hamburg. On the northern banks of the Elbe River there, where for centuries...
