Strength in numbers: Artists carved more than 5,000 jack o’lanterns to create the fiery wonderland that is the Great Jack O’Lantern Blaze at Van Cortlandt Manor in the Hudson Valley. From a creepy covered bridge to a pumpkin-populated Jurassic Park, visitors can bask in the… Read More
Please may this be my room, filled with objets d’art I’ve found traipsing around the world? Twins Elizabeth and Kathryn Fortunato, the masterminds behind luxe accessories line Lizzie Fortunato, travel often, collecting as they go. Drawn… Read More
This is not a love song. This is not a romanticization, nor is it a celebration. This is, instead, a reenactment of sorts, a restaging of aesthetic ambiguity where one sculpture frames another. In the 1950s, French sculptor André Bloc designed a habitable brick sculpture,… Read More
Elegant, expansive, sexy: Eero Saarinen’s TWA Flight Center symbolized mid-century modernism and all of its optimism. Every detail spoke to the stylish hope coursing through the futuristic hub, from the red carpet lining the gateways and the thin-shell… Read More
Another room to envy, this time in Louisville, Kentucky. The 21c Museum Hotel, “born out of a desire to integrate contemporary art into everyday life,” invited New York-based artists Jonah Freeman and Justin Lowe to create an immersive art experience… Read More
A chartreuse simulacrum of a bathroom. And a bedroom and a staircase. For years, Korean artist Do Ho Suh has been sculpting every aspect of his NYC apartment and studio (a former sailors’ dorm in… Read More
Dylan Thomas marked turning 30 with a walk up Sir John’s Hill, a slope overlooking Laugharne, Wales, a walk he remembered in words as “Poem in October.” Mortality writhes in his verse, turning with the trail, twisting with views of the… Read More
A building designed for disposal now faces its overdue demise, to the outrage of some occupants. In 1972, architect Kisho Kurokawa imagined a Tokyo apartment block as a kit of parts of sorts: each of the 140 units… Read More
These tantalizing folds – tar black layers with scraggy edges – diverted me from my route yesterday along Second Avenue in the Lower East Side. Geologically graceful (like this Acne sweater), the humps are made of rubber conveyor belts once used to ferry ore from… Read More
A skeletal structure, veins aglow. A hutong bound for redevelopment becomes an opportunity for architectural invention in Beijing. Timed for Beijing Design Week 2014 (today’s its last day), reMIX Studio remade the traditional residence into a wireframe of… Read More
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