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We humans long for daylight, a view of greenery, and a sense of connection. Yet today, transparent building envelopes seem less in demand. Instead of granting views in and out, we create retreats. What forms of transparency remain desirable amid social uncertainty and urban densification? And do transparent or translucent envelopes still make sense when contemporary(...)
Detail 12 2025 : Transparency translucency
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We humans long for daylight, a view of greenery, and a sense of connection. Yet today, transparent building envelopes seem less in demand. Instead of granting views in and out, we create retreats. What forms of transparency remain desirable amid social uncertainty and urban densification? And do transparent or translucent envelopes still make sense when contemporary energy concepts are applied? Light, air, and sun are no longer universally welcome. The spaces behind the climate envelope must be protected from solar gains and heat loss. Limited opening ratios, smart building technology, and algorithm-driven facade design have become the norm. In such scenarios, people are treated as disruptive elements, better kept passive. Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal show that another way is possible. Working with 51N4E in Brussels, Lacaton & Vassal recently extended a residential block in the Peterbos district using their familiar approach: adding new winter gardens. Transparent and translucent sliding panels alternate, while curtains provide shade or privacy when needed. The result is adaptable space that responds to changing conditions – yet always leaves the final decision to the human user. A drawn curtain can create a sense of withdrawal, but it can just as easily be opened again
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a+u’s July looks at how, even in a city such as New York, where projects are executed on a grand scale, designing spaces to walk, rest, work, and play centers the human experience. The selected projects from Midtown and Lower Manhattan provide but a small cross section of the varying typologies of differing scales currently enhancing the architecture of New York City.(...)
A+U 658 25:07 Manhattan Towers
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a+u’s July looks at how, even in a city such as New York, where projects are executed on a grand scale, designing spaces to walk, rest, work, and play centers the human experience. The selected projects from Midtown and Lower Manhattan provide but a small cross section of the varying typologies of differing scales currently enhancing the architecture of New York City. Projects such as the Moynihan Train Hall by Skidmore Owings & Merrill (SOM) endeavor to preserve the fabric of the city while addressing the increased need for transportation hubs by the expansion of Pennsylvania station to the adjacent historic James A. Farley Building, while adaptive reuse projects such as Gansevoort Peninsula Park by nArchitects are part of a decadeslong effort to transform the industrial waterfront into much needed green spaces and sports facilities. Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF) addresses the shortage of residential space with projects that integrate the materiality of the building to its context and incorporate the human scale with the urban one. Amid the massive developments taking place, smaller practices such as Worrell Yeung and WORKac seek to preserve urban character, through surgical intervention in their renovation projects.
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a+u’s August issue continues Mauricio Pezo and Sofía von Ellrichshausen’s first monograph published 12 years ago (a+u 2013:06, no. 513). The 20 works presented here showcase the evolution of their methodology and philosophy toward the concatenation of painting and architecture. Playing with the limits of the architectural surface through explorations in geometry, Pezo von(...)
A+U 659 25:08 Pezo Ellrichshausen
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a+u’s August issue continues Mauricio Pezo and Sofía von Ellrichshausen’s first monograph published 12 years ago (a+u 2013:06, no. 513). The 20 works presented here showcase the evolution of their methodology and philosophy toward the concatenation of painting and architecture. Playing with the limits of the architectural surface through explorations in geometry, Pezo von Ellrichshausen invite the reader to consider the “architectonic picture,” not as a rigid reproduction but as a method of visualizing the self in the world amid all the world’s potentialities, where the physical eye and mind’s eye meet. Architecture, therefore, is not fixed but unpredictable, subject to the individual’s self-perception overlaid with the space and moment they occupy. Paintings by the duo allow us to enter their perception of architecture as both sensual and conceptual.
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Paris Review Winter 2025
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Hélène Cixous on the Art of Criticism: “There’s a feminist discourse that women can’t do it all. This is what many women experience, and it’s very difficult. But I am not like that.” Alice Oswald on the Art of Poetry: “You come at poetry with the momentum of having failed. It’s only when other communication is absolutely impossible that a poem has to exist.” Prose by(...)
Paris Review Winter 2025
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Hélène Cixous on the Art of Criticism: “There’s a feminist discourse that women can’t do it all. This is what many women experience, and it’s very difficult. But I am not like that.” Alice Oswald on the Art of Poetry: “You come at poetry with the momentum of having failed. It’s only when other communication is absolutely impossible that a poem has to exist.” Prose by Eve Babitz, Marlene Morgan, Alec Niedenthal, Gwendoline Riley, and Elias Rodriques. Poetry by Millicent Borges Accardi, Monzer Masri, Alice Oswald, Jana Prikryl, and Ed Roberson. Art by Ali Banisadr, Pippa Garner, Joan Jonas, and Mieko Meguro; cover by Adebunmi Gbadebo.
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Pour ce 63e numéro de The Funambulist, nous nous sommes associé·es à Myriam Amri, anthropologue et artiste tunisienne avec qui nous « Suivons l’Argent ». Nous nous immérgeons dans les méandres du système capitaliste et remontons à ses nœuds centraux : la propriété, la terre, le capital et la classe. Nous analysons comment l’argent est au cœur des projets coloniaux et(...)
The Funambulist n.63 : Suivons l'argent
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Pour ce 63e numéro de The Funambulist, nous nous sommes associé·es à Myriam Amri, anthropologue et artiste tunisienne avec qui nous « Suivons l’Argent ». Nous nous immérgeons dans les méandres du système capitaliste et remontons à ses nœuds centraux : la propriété, la terre, le capital et la classe. Nous analysons comment l’argent est au cœur des projets coloniaux et impériaux, mais aussi comment la souveraineté et la libération de notre imaginaire monétaire peuvent être des outils d’émancipation.
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Le dossier de ce numéro rassemble les portfolios de Christos Dikeakos, Michel Campeau et Sara Knelman, autour de la thématique Collectionner. Une même passion pour l’image parcourt les séries présentées dans ce numéro, rassemblées par des artistes et une écrivaine qui sont à la fois un peu collectionneurs, archivistes et documentaristes.// The feature section of this(...)
CV Ciel variable 131 : Collectionner / Collecting
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Le dossier de ce numéro rassemble les portfolios de Christos Dikeakos, Michel Campeau et Sara Knelman, autour de la thématique Collectionner. Une même passion pour l’image parcourt les séries présentées dans ce numéro, rassemblées par des artistes et une écrivaine qui sont à la fois un peu collectionneurs, archivistes et documentaristes.// The feature section of this issue brings together portfolios by Christos Dikeakos, Michel Campeau, and Sara Knelman around the theme of Collecting. A shared passion for the image runs through the series presented in this issue, brought together by artists and a writer who are, each in their own way, collectors, archivists, and documentarians.
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Azure 314 : Houses
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What’s inside: fabulous flooring, tiles for miles, hospitality hardware, lighting for every room and more. The AZURE Houses issue returns in 2026 with stunning, innovative residential projects from Canada and around the world. Plus, we take a look at that seeming relic of the past: the mall!
Azure 314 : Houses
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What’s inside: fabulous flooring, tiles for miles, hospitality hardware, lighting for every room and more. The AZURE Houses issue returns in 2026 with stunning, innovative residential projects from Canada and around the world. Plus, we take a look at that seeming relic of the past: the mall!
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"Now, and Then” is a nice elliptical phrase, never standing on its own — inconclusive in an expansive kind of way. It can be read to mean “occasionally,” as in — now and then I have a craving for raw oysters. It can be understood comparatively: this is now and that was then or it can be read as a double state of mind, considering what we are doing now and what took place(...)
Border Crossings 169 : Now, and then
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"Now, and Then” is a nice elliptical phrase, never standing on its own — inconclusive in an expansive kind of way. It can be read to mean “occasionally,” as in — now and then I have a craving for raw oysters. It can be understood comparatively: this is now and that was then or it can be read as a double state of mind, considering what we are doing now and what took place then. This is the way in which our topic for the current issue came to mind. It might also serve as an anchor in our rudderless time, to be consistently nautical, in that we can be engaged in the unavoidable present but we can also be assured that there is a history behind us — both bolstering, and dreadful, some of it we can draw and build on and much for which we ask to be forgiven.
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C magazine 162 : Tidal
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This issue begins from the tidal as literal image and metaphor for ceaseless movement and its force. We think alongside the inseparability of ocean and land, inspired by Barbadian poet and scholar Kamau Brathwaite’s idea of tidalectics that moves away from easy binaries—the ones that continually justify colonial and capital expansion. From Turtle Island to the Caribbean(...)
C magazine 162 : Tidal
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This issue begins from the tidal as literal image and metaphor for ceaseless movement and its force. We think alongside the inseparability of ocean and land, inspired by Barbadian poet and scholar Kamau Brathwaite’s idea of tidalectics that moves away from easy binaries—the ones that continually justify colonial and capital expansion. From Turtle Island to the Caribbean archipelago, Palestine, Central America, and Bidong Island in Malaysia, artists wade through interconnected and overlapping struggles across multiple shores, times, and material inheritances.
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In issue 005 of Digital Frontier, meet the Outlier people, projects and ideas reimaging what our future will look like. The founders of New Computer are attempting to code a computerised soul; Kenyan builders leapfrog ahead using DIYed infrastructure; and multi-hyphenate creatives Danielle Baskin and Damjanski are turning random thoughts into engaging experiences. We also(...)
Digital Frontier 005 : Our future decoded
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In issue 005 of Digital Frontier, meet the Outlier people, projects and ideas reimaging what our future will look like. The founders of New Computer are attempting to code a computerised soul; Kenyan builders leapfrog ahead using DIYed infrastructure; and multi-hyphenate creatives Danielle Baskin and Damjanski are turning random thoughts into engaging experiences. We also explore a DeepMind researcher’s suggestion that AI needs a body to attain superintelligence and dive into the weird world of virtual fantasy via Berlin’s Cybrothel. We hope the youthful optimism of everyone featured is contagious.
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