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The Italian architect Bernini submitted a series of designs for the Louvre’s East wing in 1665. How would Paris look today if Louis XIV had commissioned him instead of turning his attention to Versailles? Paris: all the great monarchs and statesmen of France have left their mark on the capital. In March 1989, President François […] More
Art and architecture, it sometimes seems, have an unhealthy obsession with each other. When the commercial art gallery Hauser & Wirth announced an architecture season at its farmyard conversion in Somerset, I decided it would be a good opportunity to explore this relationship, and to pick out some trends in the way they connect. After […] More
The Serpentine Gallery has released images of its 15th annual Pavilion, to be designed by Spanish architects SelgasCano. The temporary structure will be an ‘amorphous, double-skinned, polygonal structure’, and like much of their previous work (including their own studio space in the Madrid woodland) it will explore how buildings and their interiors can interact with the natural environment in… […] More
Aspen Art Museum opens its new building this weekend – a latticed, light-stippled design by the celebrated architect Shigeru Ban. The Japanese architect, who won the Pritzker Prize this year, is well known for his use of paper as a cheap and versatile building material. His low cost, recycled ‘paper-tube’ shelters have been used to house refugees and […] More
