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Tokyo developer Minoru Mori doesn't shy away from big projects. Coming swiftly in the wake of his successful Roppongi Hills development is the massive Omotesando Hills (www.omotesandohills.com) retail and residential complex, designed by Tadao Ando, the Japanese architect famous for his grand public buildings. Despite the plain concrete exteriors that are a staple of his work, Ando has managed to pay homage to the old apartment buildings the development has controversially replaced, with one section not only resembling the original facades, but also including a gallery of photographs of what was there before. Inside the complex, a wide spiraling...
...knees. A woman leans her head on Mary's shoulder-her face ugly with grief. His massive fresco, The Last Judgment, on the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel, was completed in 1541. Michelangelo painted no more after 1550, working instead on sculpture and architecture-he was now chief architect to St. Peter's in Rome. In his final years his drawing technique became more hesitant and misty. He used a lifetime spent studying the human body to express ideas about its fragility, capacity for suffering and inevitable dissolution. The last three works in the show, isolated in an area...
Tokyo developer Minoru Mori doesn't shy away from big projects. Coming swiftly in the wake of his successful Roppongi Hills development is the massive Omotesando Hills omotesandohills.com retail and residential complex, designed by Tadao Ando, the Japanese architect famous for his grand public buildings. Despite the plain concrete exteriors that are a staple of his work, Ando has managed to pay homage to the old apartment buildings the development has controversially replaced, with one section not only resembling the original facades, but also including a Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise a new Singapore hotel...
...easy or whether flirting at a bus stop goes awry, “Fishscale” is a work of unabashed, unsentimental love, and a complex and fully formed work of art. Ghostface raps on “The Champ” that “this is architect music / I’m a verbal street opera.” Well said...
...Kongjian, China's pre-eminent landscape architect, was brought down from Beijing to lend the project some cachet?and, as is often the case, his first move was to throw a wrench into other people's plans. Zhongshan didn't need more flowers, Yu told the city officials; it didn't need fountains, ornate wrought-iron fences, or hedges shaped like animals. Instead of bulldozing the shipyard, he proposed, they could put it to new use. A gantry crane would make an interesting gate, a crumbling water tower could become the base of a lighted beacon. Instead of grass...