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• Sandra Kantanen: Beyond the Lens of Traditional Photography — Finnish artist Sandra Kantanen approaches photography as a gateway to the imagined, rather than a tool for capturing objective reality. Her
• Emily Kraus: Rhythm of the Moment — Inside the Canvas Cube, Emily Kraus Paints the Rhythm of the Present Moment
• Against the Right Angle — Five buildings that talked their way out of the grid – and the software, the metal, the money and the sheer nerve it took to build them.
• Polish Design: Woven From Memory — How does the sensetivity of Polish designers towards cultural heritage shape the design scene
• Tadao Ando — Architecture beneath the tangible
• Art that makes you smile — I believe that when you introduce playful objects into an environment, it expands the boundaries of the mind. It gives you non-verbal permis
• Five Rooms, One Signature — A dalmatian dot, a slab of burl, three portraits of the same painted dog, and one small cone that keeps reappearing where you least expect i
• The Sacred Spring: A Portrait of the Vienna Secession — In 1897 a handful of Viennese artists walked out on the establishment, raised a white temple crowned with a dome of gilded leaves, and decla
• The Heart of EPRIS: Maria Is Now a Bachelor of Architecture — On July 7th, Mariia Ivanova, EPRIS's editor-in-chief, officially became a Bachelor of Architecture. To mark the day – a heart built from the
• The Threshold of Time — Door restoration is an act of archaeological tenderness. From the carved portals of Tbilisi to Ghiberti's Gates of Paradise – a journey thro
• Home Away From Home — A pied-à-terre always catches the irreplaceable light in your eyes, but it can also spark them.
• Rooms That Watch You Back — Glass once promised freedom, honesty and light. Then the walls learned to collect data. An essay on transparent architecture, controlled vis
• In Conversation with Chora Practice: — Founders of a Lisbon-based decor studio on the art of listening to your inner self, importance of resilience and favorite places in the city
• Where We Meet Ourselves - interview with Keisuke Azuma — Artist Keisuke Azuma on washing paint back off the canvas, the Japanese aesthetics of shadow and emptiness behind his work, and why art has
• Museo Nivola: A Museum, a Village and the Memory They Share — Costantino Nivola left a Sardinian village of masons for New York, worked with Le Corbusier, Sert and Saarinen, and never stopped coming bac
• Souv: The Souvenir That Doesn't Forget — Matej Petrić and Antonio Šeparović on turning an ordinary fridge magnet into the entrance to a traveler's own photos, why nobody actually wa
• Nick Dahlen - A Contemporary Take on Modernism — An artist who transforms the beauty of everyday life into striking illustrations within his own visual world.
• Soft Modernism: Bryn and Ellefsen's Physics Building at Blindern — They won the competition with a Roman temple, went to look at what Europe was building, and came home to strip their own drawing bare. What
• Where the Warmth Lives: How Two Traditions Measured the Turn from Summer to Autumn — Autumn does not make the light warmer. Measured region by region, two canvases of the same field show the sky staying where it was while the
• The Picture Is Finished Before the Shutter - interview with Roland M Schwerdtfeger — Architectural photographer Roland M Schwerdtfeger on planning a picture until it is finished before the camera comes up, the single coloured
• Neobarocco: Five Buildings That Confess What They Want You to Believe — No seventeenth-century architect ever had to build a case for absolute power. The power was already absolute, and the architecture only had
• Built to a Score: Three Buildings Where Music Wrote the Architecture — Most buildings host music: a stage, walls, a program, good acoustics. A handful of buildings do something stranger, and let a piece of music
• The Seam That Isn't There: Anish Kapoor's Cloud Gate — Anish Kapoor's Cloud Gate has no front, no seam and, its maker insists, no fixed subject beyond the skyline and the crowd currently caught i
• Abbie Downey: Collected, Not Coordinated — The founder of Feather&Fossil on visual rhythm, the difference between layered and chaotic, and why a home should read as continued rather t
• Eighteen Inches of Sky: The Interiors of the World Trade Center — Twenty five years on, the towers are remembered as a silhouette. Inside they were three buildings stacked on each other, a lobby seventy fou