Miller House by Eero Saarinen, Alexander Girard and Daniel Kiley // Columbus, Indiana. Designed by the rockstar architect Eero Saarinen for industrialist and philanthropist J. Irwin Miller and his family in 1957, the Miller House in Columbus, Indiana is a poster-girl for Midcentury Modernism. The reason I love this place so...
Ricardo Bofill’s Epic Home Within an Old Cement Factory in Spain. There are houses, and then there’s Ricardo Bofill’s house - an abandoned cement factory of epic proportions on the outskirts of Barcelona, Spain. A grandiose monument to industrial architecture in the Catalonian town of Sant Just...
Video // 1942 Berlin Bunker Transformed Into a Gallery & Home. Christian Boros, the owner of a German advertising agency, and his wife, Karen Lohmann, an art historian, were looking for a large space in Berlin—both for living and exhibiting their vast contemporary-art collection—when they...
Walls Covered With 10,000 Collected Bones at ‘Hueso’ Restaurant in Mexico. Located in the beautiful Lafayette Design District in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico is the home and studio of Diaz Morales, part of the Luis Barragan Foundation. This extraordinary modernist architecture setting from the 1940s serves as the...
Video // Barcelona in Flow-Motion by Rob Whitworth. Set in the bustling and beautiful city of Barcelona, Rob Whitworth's "flow-motion" video takes you on an extraordinary tour of the Spanish seaside city. This stunning piece effectively captures the magnificent cultural history and...
Video // Iconic Houses Animation by Matteo Muci. This clever animated video by Milan-based graphic designer Matteo Muci is a 2min voyage through five of the most iconic masterpieces of modern...
Le Corbusier’s Studio-Apartment Opens For Visits. Le Corbusier’s studio-apartment occupies the last two floors of the Molitor apartment block, located at 24, rue Nungesser et Coli. Designed between 1931 and 1934 by Le Corbusier and his cousin and associate, Pierre Jeanneret, the...
‘Barock’ Photographic Installation by Renate Buser at Bellelay Abbey // Switzerland. In 1714, architect Franz Beer built the Abbey church of Bellelay. Enormous pilasters, decorated with lavish ornamentation, monumental emptiness and a fascinating play of light still captivate 300 years later. The foundation of the church...
Brazil Week // Amazing Buildings Designed By Oscar Niemeyer. With his incredibly prolific portfolio in architecture, sculpture, furniture and design, the late Oscar Niemeyer truly left his mark on Brazil, and the world. Living a fruitful life until the age of 104, the Brazilian architect is...
