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Formafantasma creates a Biodiversity Island installation in a champagne vineyard.
Formafantasma has brought Biodiversity Island, a terracotta pillar installation, to one of Perrier-Jouët’s vineyards. The showcase of 74 ceramic pillars promotes biodiversity by providing habitats for birds and insects, and is part of a larger collaboration between the design studio and the champagne house.
wHY Architects has been tapped for two major Musée du Louvre commissions.
The New York office of wHY Architects has been chosen to design the Louvre’s new Department of Byzantine and Eastern Christian Art and to refresh its Roman antiquities trail. The project, which will span 60,000 square feet, marks the institution’s largest museographic update in more than a decade.
The longtime studio of painter and sculptor Jean Dubuffet is for sale for $13.9 million.
Jean Dubuffet’s longtime Paris studio, which was designed by Auguste Perret and originally built in 1928 for painter Mela Muter, is now on the market for $13.9 million. The 2,900-square-foot L-shaped home in the 6th arrondissement has been modernized and features large bay windows, a terrace garden, and parking, while retaining its artistic charm.
Studio Gang gives a former tobacco warehouse a new life as a suite of design studios.
Studio Gang has transformed a historic 1917 tobacco warehouse into studios for the University of Kentucky’s College of Design. The 132,000-square-foot facility incorporates open-plan studios, lecture halls, and flexible gathering areas while preserving much of the original structure, including timber beams and steel trusses.
The Las Vegas Neon Museum has announced an Arts District relocation and expansion.
The Neon Museum in Las Vegas will relocate to the city’s Arts District, near where the forthcoming Las Vegas Museum of Art is planned. In the process, it will expand its exhibition space in a sweeping $45 million project, which is scheduled for completion in 2027. The move will house its existing neon sign collection and additional artifacts in a new 60,000-square-foot rooftop and a 47,000-square-foot indoor space.
Today’s attractive distractions:
Critics are decrying “elevated” but soulless prestige horror flicks.
Torontonians are trading ragers for a cult-like dedication to wellness.
Audience smartphone usage prompts Stephen Shore to leave a lecture.
London’s mysterious, macabre Warburg Institute opens to the public.
