The Audley, a restaurant in Mayfair, London, from Hauser & Wirth and Artfarm founders Iwan and Manuela Wirth. Image courtesy of Artfarm.…
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Manuela, a new restaurant from the founders of Hauser & Wirth, is headed to New York.
Iwan and Manuela Wirth, founders of Hauser & Wirth and hospitality company Artfarm, will open Manuela, a new restaurant on SoHo’s Prince Street this fall. The restaurant is a joint endeavor with VeLa Development Partners and will focus on locally sourced country cooking from chef Sean Froedtert. Manuela will mark the duo’s first New York venture following their successful Los Angeles location and the Fife Arms hotel in Braemar, Scotland. Manuela New York will also feature commissioned works by Hauser & Wirth artists, Rashid Johnson among them.
Met Museum attendance is up for locals, but down by half for those from abroad.
Over the past year, The Metropolitan Museum of Art reported a significant rebound in local and domestic foot traffic, though international visits remain at half their pre-pandemic levels. The museum has credited its recovery to strengthened community relationships, diverse programming, and new initiatives like the 81st Street Studio for children and the Harlem Renaissance exhibition. Crucially, the museum also celebrated record attendance from people of color.
Liberty Landing. Image courtesy of CookFox. …
The architect Santiago Calatrava has earned a CTBUH Lifetime Achievement Award.
The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat has named Santiago Calatrava as this year’s recipient of the Lynn S. Beedle Lifetime Achievement Award. In a statement, the organization cited his significant contributions to the design of tall buildings globally. Both he and SOM engineer John Zils, who is this year’s Fazlur R. Khan Lifetime Achievement Award recipient, have received their honors for their impact on city skylines and spaces.
In “an act of violent aggression,” Anne Imhof’s queer billboards have been vandalized.
Six billboards created as part of Anne Imhof’s “Wish You Were Gay” project were vandalized in Bregenz, Austria. Imhof characterized the defacement as “an act of violent aggression” and a “hate crime” against the LGBTQ+ community. The billboards, part of her exhibition at Kunsthaus Bregenz, are slated to be promptly replaced.
Thanks to CookFox, a former carceral facility in Manhattan will be refitted as apartments.
Manhattan’s former Bayview Correctional Facility is getting a new lease on life as affordable housing. The building will be transformed by local architecture studio CookFox into Liberty Landing, a 16-story building with 124 affordable housing units for low-income and formerly incarcerated individuals. The firm will preserve the building’s Art Deco hallmarks while adding seven new stories as well as a 9,300-square-foot community facility for youth programming.
Skip and Arc’teryx's MoGo technology. Image courtesy of Arc’teryx.…
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One of Pietro Belluschi’s earliest homes is now for sale in Portland.
