JR, the French photographer and street artist, and Sandra Laoura, a French skier, hold the Olympic Flame on July 14. Photo by Maja Hitij/Getty Images The Paris Olympics don’t kick …
Yet even in an age of “starchitects”, this pop-culture symbol with geopolitical reach remained relatively, and paradoxically, obscure. “I.M. Pei: Life Is Architecture” might change all that. People walk around …
“We have a very special building complex on a historic site and right on the Singapore River front,” Wong said in an interview. “It is so iconic that whenever we …
The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM). Photo by Roberto Machado Noa/LightRocket via Getty Images At a 2014 press conference covered by El Mundo, Frank Gehry proclaimed that “98 percent of everything …
How seeing I.M. Pei’s Bank of China Tower in Hong Kong changed the life of a Hong Kong artist and architect One of Hong Kong’s most instantly recognisable buildings, the …
With 6,000 kilometres separating Hong Kong and the Qatari capital, Doha, it may seem at first glance that the cities have nothing much in common. On closer examination, however, both …