ISSUE 81/FACADE/MARCH 5, 2010
BY POPULAR DEMAND
The day before his inauguration, Barack Obama made an appearance at the Washington, DC, homeless-youth center Sasha Bruce House, pulling down a stubborn curtain and rolling cerulean paint on the walls according to a redesign by New York-based architecture firm HWKN. And while studio namesakes Matthias Hollwich (the HW) and Marc Kushner (KN) admit their $1,500 scheme merely created cleaner and more private spaces, the outpouring of responses to the project pegged it as revolutionary. Scores of TV viewers contacted their SoHo office to learn how they, too, could construct a more socially responsible reality.
ISSUE 81/SUBTEXT/MARCH 1, 2010
FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE
IMAGES: NADIA MORO ,
STYLING: GIACOMO SIMONI ,
HAIR: JEROME CULTRERA ,
MAKEUP: ENY WHITEHEAD ,
MODEL: BASTIEN BONIZEC ,
LOCATION: MARINE VACTH
ISSUE 81/AREA/FEBRUARY 25, 2010
UNREALIZED PROFITS
WORDS: DAVID SOKOL
James Coombes and Dominique Gonfard see the bright side in a depressing marketplace. The two met in a restaurant four years ago, married last November and officially launched Lerival just a month before their wedding. It was a love match with the market, too: the New York-based company, which produces furniture designed by architects, has already expanded into European distribution.
ISSUE 81/FACADE/FEBRUARY 22, 2010
LIGHTING THE WAY
WORDS: EVA HAGBERG ,
IMAGES: ROLAND HALBE
When Zaha Hadid won the commission to design a new art museum in Rome's Flaminio neighborhood, Gehry's Guggenheim in Bilbao was two years old, Zaha's office was twenty-strong and the world was heading into a boom period. Ten years later, the 312,000-square-foot MAXXI (National Museum of the 21st Century Arts) seems at first glance like just another starchitect project. Instead, the MAXXI, developed and run by Italy's Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities as a way of bringing the nation fully into the current century, is a leap forward in museum architecture as remarkable as Gehry's Guggenheim.































