Downtown Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, now the tallest building in the world, briefly opened in January with a stunning celebration. In photographs, the building’s inauguration, replete with fireworks and video projections (more…)
Frank Gehry is known for his easily identifiable style: big, swooping titanium and glass forms that seem to float like sails on the wind or the skirts of a dancer. Some compare his architecture to Disneyland, larger than life and a bit too whimsical (more…)
In the vernacular of furniture, the chair is the apparatus that forms the intimate bond between the individual and the room, as the great architect and designer Eero Saarinen no doubt observed. A chair may only be empty space until someone sits in it (more…)
One of the oldest truisms in design has to be, “Don’t reinvent the wheel.” And yet, the wheel itself was a reinvention – a microscopic, electromagnetic motor, complete with hub, spokes, and axle, is fundamental machinery deep within every cell of your body. (more…)
In the wake of economic recession, art is about much more than beauty and posterity; it’s about finding a fresh perspective.
“You’ve taken money out of the hands of a mother who can barely buy her kid’s asthma medicine,” wrote Lydia from New Jersey on a New York Times blog. (more…)
