None of the images, work or art displayed here are our own, and we are really thankful to all of you who have created and represented personal and professional works. If there is something you do not wish to have here! please send us a message and we will gladly take it down!
Upon opening its doors for the first time on a rainy winter’s night in 1932, the Radio City Music Hall by Edward Durell Stone & Donald Deskey
in Manhattan was proclaimed so extraordinarily beautiful as to need no performers at all. The first built component of the massive Rockefeller Center, the Music Hall has been the world’s largest indoor theater for over eighty years. With its elegant Art Deco interiors and complex stage machinery, the theater defied tradition to set a new standard for modern entertainment venues that remains to this day.
A First Look Inside Rafael Viñoly’s 432 Park Avenue
432 Park Avenue, the distinctive New York skyscraper designed by Rafael Viñoly, has now unveiled its completed range of amenities and services. New photographs offer a look inside the tower for the first time, which, at 426 meters (1,396 feet), is the tallest residential building in the western hemisphere. The supertall structure contains 106 units spread across 96 storys, occupancy of which began earlier this year.
Designed by Uruguayan architect Rafael Viñoly, 432 Park Avenue’s skinny concrete façades present a grid of oversized windows that measure 10 feet by 10 feet. Photographs inside the residences show equally restrained interiors appointed with a carefully curated selection of furnishings. designed by New York architect Deborah Berke, other features include 12.5-foot ceiling heights, solid oak flooring, and Italian marble countertops.
Ever since I was captivated by abandoned and decaying buildings with their own history and, thus, they belong to my oldest photographic themes. The withdrawal of the soviet military forces in Germany, the annulment of the NVA (army of the GDR) and the end of the cold war has left numerous empty, often historic buildings that are decaying now for more than 20 years. In many cases they have no chance of preservation as the required capital assets are not balanced by the profit that can be expected in a sparsely populated country such as Brandenburg. When taking photos in such places I do not just want to keep records of them. Rather my aim is to capture the unique mood of these abandoned, quiet rooms, which inspires associations despite or because of their emptiness and darkness, and send the viewer on an emotional mind trip.
The Isolated Building Studies are the visual confluence of my interests in urban dynamism, socioeconomic inequality and photography. By using uniform composition in photographs of Chicago buildings with no neighboring structures, I hope to draw attention to new ways of seeing the common impact of divergent investment processes on urban communities.
Isolated buildings are particularly useful for the exploration of neighborhood transformation and its social correlates because they are immediately recognized as unusual. As urban buildings, their form illustrates their connection with adjacent structures: vertical, boxy, an architecture confined by palpably limited parcels. When their neighboring buildings are missing, a tension emerges: the urban form clashes with the seemingly suburban, even rural setting. Thoughtfully engaging the landscape requires further investigation to resolve this tension: Why is this building isolated? It is from this fundamental friction that the Isolated Building Studies launches.
A selection of images from ArT of opEN doors project in Rua de Santa Maria of Funchal. It is a project to open the doors of the city of Funchal to art and culture. They were not “virtual entrances” rather old and forgotten. These doors are from abandoned shops and deteriorated areas that take on new life, in order to sensitize people filling the streets with cultural and artistic events.
These interventions include all the visual arts, from painting, sculpture, photography, video, music and writing. It is an intervention that is not intended vandalize or be transgressive with the everyday life of the city. Although every artist always wants to be innovative and “groundbreaking”. This is part of a “wakeup call” that any work of art exerts on the audience who sees it.
In the quaint Dutch town of Den Bosch, amongst typical brick-clad homes and winding canals, sits the odd community of Bolwoningen designed by Dries Kreijkamp
: a cluster of globe-shaped stilt houses punctuated with round windows in a sea of wild vegetation. Built in 1984, these oversized “golf balls” are, in fact, homes: an eccentric product of a relatively unknown architectural experiment conducted by a visionary architect, attempting to impose a new morphological dwelling solution, and hoping to generate a new residential typology. Instead, the bizarre neighborhood remains a secluded, momentary anecdote in architectural history, and today, provides a glimpse into an age of praised radicalism and irrepressible imagination.
Ancient Indian stepwells captured by Victoria S. Lautman. Rudimentary stepwells first appeared in India between the 2nd and 4th centuries A.D., born of necessity in a capricious climate zone bone-dry for much of the year followed by torrential monsoon rains for many weeks. It was essential to guarantee a year-round water-supply for drinking, bathing, irrigation and washing, particularly in the arid states of Gujarat (where they’re called vavs) and Rajasthan (where they’rebaoli, baori, or bawdi) where the water table could be inconveniently buried ten-stories or more underground. Over the centuries, stepwell construction evolved so that by the 11th century they were astoundingly complex feats of engineering, architecture, and art.
Hey, I’m Joe – a designer and illustrator based in London. I currently work at 27, a little studio in Shoreditch offering design and creative direction to a bunch of great clients across a wide range of sectors.
Raised on a steady diet of comic books, video games and movies, pop culture has always played a pretty big role in my life and has inevitably inspired much of my work. The most obvious place this influence can be seen is in the various self-initiated side projects I’ve worked on, a few of which have been featured on design and entertainment blogs around the world, printed in art journals and magazines in Europe and Asia, exhibited in New York and once even published in a book.
I also occasionally take on additional freelance work, so if you have a project in mind, want to collaborate on something or just have a question then get in touch.
None of the images, work or art displayed here are our own, and we are really thankful to all of you who have created and represented personal and professional works. If there is something you do not wish to have here! please send us a message and we will gladly take it down!
