How does your childhood home influence the one you make yourself? Seven leading architects look back at the foundations of their career
Libeskind, 70, founded Studio Libeskind with his wife, Nina, in 1989 after winning a competition to build the Jewish Museum in Berlin. In 2003, his studio moved its headquarters from Berlin to New York, when Libeskind was selected as master planner for the World Trade Center redevelopment
Continue reading...From London's Barbican to Wiltshire and Yorkshire, these cutting-edge properties capture the architectural spirit of the age
Continue reading...On Sunday, with half an hour to spare before my timed entry to the Georgia O'Keefe exhibition, I ventured to Tate Modern's 10th-floor viewing platform (Get some net curtains, says Tate director in row over flats and a not so private view, 22 September).
The view from there is fine if you want to look at modern office blocks such as the Shard and the Gherkin, but if you want to spot Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament you have to twist your body, bend low and put your head on one side, as the view is blocked by the tops of nearby buildings. The Tower of London is mostly hidden too.
Continue reading...the exhibition showcases sherman's engagement with 20th century popular film and celebrity, drawing on cinema's role in the shaping of identity and stereotypes.
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Born and bred in Los Angeles, the photographer has produced a huge and varied body of work over his 45-year career moving from black and white to color, and from photographing people to landscapes and abstract details. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art will feature more than 160 photographs in his first retrospective, that will be on display until 1 January 2017
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colorful and vibrant illustrations by james r. eads have been brought to life chris mcdaniel, known as 'the glitch.'
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The RA's mega overview of abstract expressionism opens this week, along with portraits of dream worlds and pop stars all in your weekly art despatch
Abstract Expressionism
Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Clyfford Still, Willem de Kooning … some of the greatest art of the modern age crosses the Atlantic to awe us with its all-embracing sublimity. What's not to like? See it several times.
• Royal Academy, London, 24 September2 January
on the façade of an 'eye-sore' soviet building by the river, the architect has featured a dynamic display of color and light.
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Photographs from the Eyewitness series
Continue reading...Could an outpost on the moon be the next logical step towards the know-how and infrastructure we need to head into the farther reaches of the solar system?
The danger in having a moon village as your vision for the future is that people get the wrong impression. The mind leaps ahead and lands on a movie set: a giant dome shelters a huddle of homes, a bank of generators, and a modestly-stocked shop that doubles as the post office. A lost spacefarer with a PhD in botany clings to life by growing spuds in human faeces.
The idea is so easily misconstrued that Jan Woerner, the director general of the European Space Agency (ESA), makes clear from the start what the moon village is not. “Let me tell you what it won't mean,” he says. “Single houses, a school, a church, a swimming pool, a bakery, an undertaker. This is not what I'm thinking about.”