| Plus: desert-inspired designs, and two forward-thinking offices. | | |
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| | | Top of Mind | “The bell is a call back to ourselves. A call back to the possibility of an interior life, a sacred life, a call back to rituals.”
— Theaster Gates on the salvaged bronze church bell that sits outside this year’s Serpentine Pavilion | | |
| | | | | | | | Take Me to Church | | For the 21st Serpentine Pavilion, artist Theaster Gates has unveiled Black Chapel, a cylindrical temple that doubles as a gallery for a series of shimmering paintings. Outside, a bronze bell salvaged from a church on Chicago’s South Side adds to the structure’s spiritual identity. | | |
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| | | | | | | | | This Desert Life | | Adorno’s latest collection draws inspiration from Jordan’s Wadi Rum desert, reflecting the region’s earthy landscape with craft techniques that achieve unexpected lightness with stone and intriguing rigidity with textiles. | | |
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| | | | Passive Touch | | Denys & Von Arend bake up an eco-friendly — and texture rich — office for a non-stick coating company. | | |
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| | | | Suspend Your Disbelief | | Glazed meeting rooms float miraculously in a futuristic Shenzhen office complex. | | |
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| | | | | Cross Section | | Tarkett’s Stockholm showroom explores the intersection of art and sustainability. | | |
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| | | | Events | | Class is officially in session: Carleton University’s STUDIO FIRST summer program begins July 6th to help you put your best foot forward for grad school applications. Plus, the Tallinn Architecture Biennale, opening September 7th, will investigate the role of architecture in the circular economy. | | | | |
| Jobs | | Passionate about prototyping? Studio Piet Boon is seeking a Senior Product Designer to develop furniture, lighting and accessories from concept through to launch. And Michaelis Boyd needs an Interior Designer to add to its portfolio of high-end residential and mixed-use commercial projects. | | | | |
| Competitions | | Belfast’s Take Back the City Coalition is offering a £10,000 prize to design the City of the Future. Or channel your inner Gaudi and submit a proposal for the La Coma artists’ residence and education complex in Huesca, Spain. | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | Office Dynamics | | These days, we’re all striving for better work-life balance. We look at three offices that play a role in supporting that healthy equilibrium — and talk to young architects about the barriers they’re facing in their own jobs. |
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