There’s a story, says artist Sigal Sasson, behind everything she does. She works in oil, pen & ink, graphite and watercolor, then translates her visions into 6’ x 9’ or 8’ x 10’ custom carpets. Each carpet is made to order, and customizable by size and shape if the client wants. But each...
Jarvis Wilcox fell into painting in a serendipitous way. An art history student at Columbia some years back, he was accosted by a fellow on the street. ”He wanted me to be a model in his art class,” he says. “I told him I wasn’t broke and I wasn’t a narcissist.” But Arthur Stern persisted. ...
Tonight, in a private gala at the New York Public Library, designed by Colin Cowie and hosted by actress Sigourney Weaver, a live auction will feature ten lots of Kazakstan jewelry, along with one-of-a-kind jewelry created for the event by some of the world’s most renowned jewelry houses including...
Visiting China frequently since 1997, photographer Hans-Georg Esch has witnessed en passant the country’s unprecedented and fast-paced development. International architecture firm Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF) recently announced the inaugural exhibition of his “Cities Unknown”...
No one can argue that the construction industry is one of the most difficult on earth to navigate. The question is: what to do about it? Since 2009, Columbia University has begun tackling the answers through a forum it calls the Columbia Building Intelligence Project . “Our goal is to change the building...
So what do you do once you’ve made your millions selling alcohol to the government during the Civil War, then served for decades as president of the First National Bank of Chicago? If you’re Samuel Nickerson, you ask Burling and Whitehouse, one of Chicago’s earliest architecture firms, to design...
The way author Blaine Brownell sees things, architects are in a highly responsible position when it comes to material use – and that requires some strategic thinking about how they build. “Architects specify the materials that go into about 40 percent of all resources used,” the author of “Material...
In a freestanding building at 129 Grand Street in Manhattan’s Soho district, Studio Dror has designed a new flagship for Yigal Azrouel’s Cut25 collection. “Dror and Yigal have long been engaged in an ongoing creative dialog about design and fashion. They collaborate really well,” says Melanie...
An asymmetrical plan won the day for Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF) in an international design competition for a new airport in Abu Dhabi. Among the 39 competing firms were SOM, HOK and Fentress Architects. “We were the only ones to create an asymmetrical plan that worked with the master plan’s central...
NEXT Architects, the Amsterdam-based design and urban planning firm, recently announced the re-launch of its Modern Architecture Game. Where the first version may have focused on the Netherlands, the new game is more international in scope. A + A recently conducted an email interview with Michelle...
