Vincenzo Pagliuca Traverses the Apennines in Search of Singular and Solitary Houses

Throughout the central region of Lazio, Italy, to the southern reaches of the country, Vincenzo Pagliuca traces the Apennines in search of distinctive, solitary houses.

Pagliuca’s series mónos draws on the ancient Greek word for alone, which also means unique or singular. He sought specific lighting conditions by capturing portraits of stone, concrete, and timber structures during the winter and at sunrise.

Pagliuca likens the isolated houses to “places of dream and meditation, inviting us to reflect on the symbolic meaning of the house for the human being.” Small, faded, and sometimes idiosyncratic structures are devoid of people or current signs of use, yet they sit strikingly amid mountain expanses and alongside country roads as reminders of past lives.

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Red Lights - Vatican Aishy

Discover The Basilica di San Pietro, in the heart of the Vatican, under a new glance, a new light. Tinged with red and blue, it changes its appearance and offers a new vision.

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LEGO Universes by Artist Ekow Nimako Envision an Afrofuturistic World

Hundreds of thousands of sleek, black LEGO structure the utopic universes by Toronto-based artist Ekow Nimako. Ranging from life-sized figurative sculptures with an eccentric twist to sprawling landscapes mimicking dense metropolises, Nimako’s artworks are rooted in the visionary realm of Afrofuturism, which “explores the intersection of technology and race to visualize a powerful future for the African diaspora” through a hearty dose of hope and strength.

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Reuben Wu’s SIREN

Along the Lake Michigan shoreline, Reuben Wu created a unique confluence of light shows over the water last summer. Known for creating light paintings in dramatic landscapes using drone-mounted lasers, his ongoing series SIREN marks a new direction of illuminated “aeroglyphs,” which transcend their original geometries to open up into more fluid shapes.

“This series captures ephemeral, curtain-like structures that hover delicately in space, shaped by their environment rather than imposing upon it,” Wu says. The cascading white forms mimic the lake’s rolling waves and, on this particular evening amid a Perseids meteor shower, the surprise appearance of the northern lights.

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Real art in museums stimulates brain much more than reprints, study finds

A neurological study in the Netherlands has revealed that real works of art in a museum stimulate the brain in a way that is 10 times stronger than looking at a poster.

Commissioned by the Mauritshuis Museum in The Hague, home to Johannes Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring, the independent study used eye-tracking technology and MRI scans to record the brain activity of volunteers looking at genuine artworks and reproductions.

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HGA restores San Diego Symphony’s Jacobs Music Center

For three years the Jacobs Music Center in Downtown San Diego has undergone renovation work. The theater, previously known as The Fox Theatre movie palace, brims with Spanish Baroque detailing. Architectural firm HGA in collaboration with acoustician Paul Scarbrough and theater planner Schuler Shook, led the renovation. Their attuned work enhances the acoustic experience, while not straying away from the unique spirit of the historic music venue.

Improvements included a custom-designed orchestra enclosure with tunable ceiling reflectors, made to enhance sound distribution, and modifications to deepen the acoustic enclosure created in the stage. Seating has been reconfigured to improve sight lines, remove restrictive sound barriers, and improve access and circulation of the space. This arrangement has expanded the space to accommodate up to 1,823 people, who will be immersed in a more encompassing auditory experience.

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David Moreno

Rotterdam-based David Moreno prefers his spatial pieces to oscillate between initial sketches of architectural projects and fully-realised constructions. His steel sculptures are comprised of lengthy metal strips and piano strings that are arranged to form building complexes, cathedrals, and steep flights of stairs. Despite being three-dimensional artworks, they mimic an architect’s outlines with their swooping lines and grid-like qualities.

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Big Brother is Watching You Matt Jackson

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Kengo Kuma’s Swooping Canopy Reorients Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian in Lisbon

The extension to Lisbon’s Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian (CAM), designed by Kengo Kuma & Associates, orients a much-adored park and cultural complex in a different direction. This singular foundation—established by the will of oil magnate Calouste Gulbenkian and today one of the world’s largest in its endowment—first acquired a swath of the city’s Santa Gertrudes Park in 1957 to build a museum for the display of its patron’s highly curated collection of pre-modern art.

The design, by a trio of Portuguese architects—Ruy Jervis d’Athouguia, Pedro Cid, and Alberto Pessoa—brought art and nature into immediate proximity within a Modernist pavilion, which contained two internal gardens, and windows that frame the plantings like artworks. Lisboans flocked to this cool refuge set amid laurels, eucalyptus, and poplar.

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Jakob Factory Rollimarchini Architekten and G8A Archietcts

The Jakob Factory project offered the design partnership of Rollimarchini Architekten from Bern and Swiss-born G8A Architects the unique opportunity to propose a highly innovative and highly specific manufacturing space, set to become a design reference for tropical sustainable architecture.

The intelligent distribution of work spaces combined with the plantation façade and completely modular interior walls provide a comfortable working space, a pioneering initiative as Jakob Factory becomes the first project in Vietnam proposing completely naturally ventilated manufacturing halls.

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Ethan Murrow

Ethan’s research and practice focuses on historical narratives and the idealized and uncomfortable ways in which they are told, retold and molded into powerful, absurd and subjective tales.

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Perseids and the Milky Way over Stonehenge Josh Dury

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Twin Gables Invite Light and Nature Indoors at This Destination Coffee Shop

In the beachside town of Chonburi, Thailand, a slithering, twin-gabled building takes shape in a grove of trees. Home to a coffee shop called Harudot, the design is the fruit of a collaboration between a coffee roaster and a landlord who sells exotic plants. IDIN Architects conceived of a building that merged form and function, creating inviting spaces to sit and meet while placing nature at the apex both physically and conceptually.

Harudot’s vaulted interior is clad in warm, natural pine, and large oval apertures in the ceiling let in abundant light that sustains indoor trees. Outside, smooth, black panels silhouette a graceful, curvaceous form punctuated with two tall peaks that literally bring nature inside.

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