Australian-born architectural historian and writer Emma Letizia Jones has been announced as one of six winners of the Harvard Graduate School of Design’s 2020 Richard Rogers Fellowship. Jones attended both the University of Sydney and the Architectural Association in London before obtaining a PhD at the University of Zurich with a thesis on the drawing […] More
A new initiative has seen a number of Australian architecture practices commit to becoming carbon neutral businesses by the end of 2020. The movement has grown out of Architects Declare Australia, a initiative which facilitated 700 signatories to a declaration of a climate and biodiversity emergency. In December 2019, a group of Melbourne signatories met […] More
A development application for a new civic centre in the Sydney suburb of Ryde, dubbed “The New Heart of Ryde,” has been referred to the Sydney North Planning Panel. Designed by Plus Architecture, the centre will deliver a “four-fold increase” in community facilities and include a multi-purpose community and cultural building which will contain a […] More
Phase 2, who in the early 1970s was one of the most prolific, inventive and emulated New York graffiti writers, and who later produced early hip-hop’s most innovative fliers, died on Dec. 12 at a nursing and rehabilitation center in the Bronx. He was 64. The cause was amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou […] More
As New York was still coming to terms with the killing of the Barnard student Tessa Majors, a Bronx teenager, Karol Sanchez, was abducted in what turned out to be a hoax. More
BOGOTÁ, Colombia — Camilo Fidel López come, bebe, piensa, duerme y respira grafiti. Donde el ojo promedio ve paredes de edificios vacías y monótonas, López, fundador de Vértigo Graffiti, un grupo de artistas que se dedican a esa forma de arte, ve lienzos en blanco, oportunidades para promover de manera colorida causas de justicia social, […] More
BOGOTÁ, Colombia — Camilo Fidel López eats, drinks, thinks, sleeps and breathes graffiti. Where the average eye sees empty and drab building walls, Mr. López, the founder of the graffiti artists crew Vértigo Graffiti, sees blank canvases, opportunities to colorfully further the cause of social justice, whether in his home city — the Colombian capital, […] More
On the Friday evening before the final big weekend of summer, members of one of New York’s last private beach clubs, the Silver Gull in Queens, received an ominous email. The club’s playground would be closed, the manager wrote, “due to the recent and increasing incidence of vandalism from within the club.” Word soon spread […] More
