The work of the Glaswegian architect and designer Charles Rennie Mackintosh made a significant contribution to British design in the 20th century. With Herbert MacNair and the sisters Frances and Margaret Macdonald, all fellow students at the Glasgow School of Art, he formed the ‘Glasgow Four’. (more…)
Cassina was instrumental in the invention of the re-edition. Since the middle of the 1960s, furniture designed by such famous names as Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Gunnar Asplund, and Gerrit Rietveld has been revived as part of the company’s impressive Masters Collection. (more…)
Competition between the various Gulf States and the wish to acquire prestige has led to a myriad of projects in the region by the most renowned international architects, including Jean Nouvel, who has designed both the Louvre Museum in Ebu Dhabi and an office tower in Doha, Qatar. Both are part of a much larger cultural program that the various Gulf States are implementing, as though the record of the world’s highest building, about to be completed in Dubai, had been joined by a new reason for competing; namely the construction of a huge cultural centre capable of shifting the current emphasis away from the West. (more…)
The new China Central Television Headquarters is currently being completed in central Beijing, among a series of recently built towers. One of the first of Rem Koolhaaas’ skyscrapers to be built, it is the concrete result of a series of theories and studies developed by the Dutch architects from 1972, the year in which he visited new York. (more…)
The new headquarters building of The New York Times, designed by Renzo Piano, was completed in 2007. The 228-metre tower, stands on the west side of Times Square on 8th Avenue is one of Manhattan’s most central areas. The entire district and the activities based in it are undergoing radical change, due to a huge urban redevelopment plan commenced in the mid-1990s, which will progressively replace the quarters’ peep shows and strip clubs with cinemas, theatres, hotels and stores. (more…)