Bottega Veneta’s previous boutique in Beverly Hills was relatively run-of-the-mill. The displays were always quite pleasant, but it didn’t really have a distinct personality deserving of the uniquely positioned brand, known for its logo-free understated brilliance and its ‘intrecciato’ leather weaving. That all changed this week, when the 50-year-old fashion […]

Few would look at a building as incomparable and architecturally complex as the Fondation Louis Vuitton and see a blank canvas. But in a sense, that’s how Frank Gehry arrived at inviting long-time friend Daniel Buren to create an in-situ work that casts new light – and a riot of […]

The Finnish designer Janne Kyttanen has continued to develop his explosion ans creative welding techniques, melding volcanic stone and 3D-printed copper into two furniture pieces. Janne Kyttanen is an artist and designer who is best known for his work in design for 3D printing. He is the founder of Freedom of Creation and […]

Zaha Hadid Architects has revealed its designs for a new central business district for Prague next to the Masaryk railway station. London-based ZHA – whose figurehead passed away earlier this year – won a competition in 2014 to redevelop the derelict 22,000-square-metre site, in response to the city’s need for more office accommodation. Its plan is […]

The last work by Xavier Delory, from the series Pilgrimage along modernity, is dedicated to the chapel Notre-Dame-du-Haut, built by Le Corbusier between 1951 and 1955 on the hill Bourlémont, Ronchamp (France). The chapel was commissioned by the Dominican friars. Among them, was the father, Marie-Alain Couturier, who campaigned for the […]

Breaking barriers in engineering education: student-driven design drives enrollment at York University’s Bergeron Centre for Engineering Excellence. Setting benchmarks worldwide for engineering education, The Bergeron Centre for Engineering Excellence re-thinks campus hierarchy to foster modern ways of learning. Resulting from an intensive design process between ZAS Architects, The Lassonde School […]

Zaha Hadid, the world-renowned architect whose designs include the London Olympic aquatic centre, has died aged 65. The British designer, who was born in Iraq, had a heart attack on Thursday while in hospital in Miami, where she was being treated for bronchitis. Hadid’s buildings have been commissioned around the […]

Five Mile Capital Partners announced the debut of six new residences at The Ritz-Carlton Grand Cayman available for purchase. The two- and three-bedroom penthouses are priced from $3.85 million to $16.4 million and range in size from 2,540 to 8,070 square feet. All homes come furnished and sit on the […]