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A new plaque at Harvard sets its history of slavery in stone“Titus, Venus, Bilhah, and Juba lived there, too.”
Updated July 21, 20221 min read
“Titus, Venus, Bilhah, and Juba lived there, too.”
Mohammad Reza Domiri Ganji is a 25-year-old Iranian physics student. But he spends his free time obsessing over how to make photos that will reveal Iran’s architectural heritage and natural beauty to the rest of the world.
This will melt your hearts.
After eight years in the repair shop, the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced yesterday (April 5) that a treasured Renaissance sculpture that had fallen off its wall has been fully restored and is back on view.
Could a piece of luggage end your travel anxieties? Raden, a line of stylish, app-connected travel cases launched on March 29, has been designed to allay the pain points of the entire air travel experience.
You may not always like her aesthetic, her candor or the politics of her clients, but Zaha Hadid, the star architect who died suddenly in Miami on March 31, has left a dark hole in the world of architecture.
The first of April is a day for jokes.
“Anyone who wants to see the sunlight clearly needs to wipe his eye first.”
The next frontier in infographics is already on your mobile phone.
Behold, Imelda Marcos’s eye-popping 25-carat pink diamond.
Architects, it turns out, draw fantastic fairy tales.
What would you do with a colossal, space-age themed pavilion and three towers?
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Mark your calendars. For exactly 36 days beginning on March 29, Instagram will be flooded with thousands and thousands of beautiful letters.
Perhaps hoping to emulate the blockbuster success of Apple’s products, comedian Sacha Baron Cohen is promoting his new movie The Brothers Grimsby like an Apple gadget. In a video released by Comedy Central on March 8, the Borat star showcases his latest “character innovations” and highlights key selling points of the Coen Brothers-penned screenplay.
The Washington Redskins are going BIG. Danish “starchitect” Bjarke Ingels, founder of the eponymously-named firm Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), offered a glimpse of his vision for the NFL football team’s new 60,000-seat stadium on 60 Minutes last week (Mar 11), and has since released more images. Little has been revealed about the functional elements of a sports arena, but the park grounds outside look spectacular.
Sir Ken Adam, widely revered as among the most influential designers in movie-making history, passed away on March 10 in London. He was 95 years old. The production designer of seven seductive James Bond movies including Dr. No, and Goldfinger, Adam is the only production designer ever to be knighted by Queen Elizabeth.
Can short coffee breaks spell the difference between loving and hating work? In Sweden, where workers are among the least stressed worldwide, the secret to happiness is a four letter word: fika.
Two of the world’s design superpowers are coming together in a quiet, cheerful explosion: MUJI, the lifestyle brand and veritable design ambassador of Japanese culture, has launched a line of Swedish goods.
A beguiling rockstar graces Google’s home page today. Clara Rockmore, born 105 years ago, was the original master of the theremin, the first electric musical instrument and one which allows musicians to create sound from thin air. Here’s Rockmore displaying her air-shredding prowess with Maurice Ravel’s Habanera:
It’s not just women in science who have it rough. Architects experience similar sexism at work, shows a new survey by Architect’s Journal. More than 70% of female architects who participated in the survey reported experiencing sexual discrimination, harassment or bullying at work. This reflects a troubling 10% jump from last year.
If you have a bookcase in your house, you very possibly have Gillis Lundgren to thank for it. The man who created Ikea’s best-selling Billy bookcase passed away on Feb. 25 at the age of 86, a company spokeswoman confirmed to Quartz.
There are many clients from hell, but the worst are those who simply don’t pay.
To the wrath of his fellow artists, Anish Kapoor effectively confirmed this week that he has gained the exclusive rights to Vantablack, the blackest shade of black ever made. The carbon-based substance absorbs 99.96% of light that hits it, according to Dazed and Confused magazine. In theory, looking at it is like staring into a black hole.