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Barcelona
Built between 1883 and 1885 by a then 31 year-old Antoni Gaudí for Manuel Vicens i Montaner, Casa Vicens (a summer home for the Barcelona-based brick and tile factory owner) was the first of the iconic architect's commissions to truly show off the...
Dispatches
Considered one of the first buildings of the Art Nouveau movement, Casa Vicens was also the first house designed by a certain Antoni Gaudí. Located in the Barcelona neighbourhood of Gràcia, the house commissioned by brick and tile factory owner,...
The Edit
Born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, it was in 1938 that Todd Webb bought his first camera aged 33, joining the Chrysler Camera Club and striking up a friendship with fellow budding photographer Harry Callahan; the pair developing a life-long...
Publications
The host of WTF Podcast, stand up comedian Marc Maron, says all you need to know: 'without Paul Major I would know nothing about all the great records people know nothing about.' That, my friends, is Mr Major in a nutshell. Savant of the oddest...
Journal
Florence is a Renaissance city; there’s no getting around that fact. Narrow cobbled streets wind their way from the banks of the Arno to the Piazzo del Duomo, where one of the most impressive feats of 15th century engineering and design still...
Publications
There are no jokes left for what Dalston has become in the 2010s. Vice made them all. Literally. The Tumblr kids have GIFfed the East London suburb into oblivion, its retro '80s (then '90s) clubs with moustached DJs playing sets entirely comprised...
The Edit
Plenty of readers will struggle with the concept, but in the 1980s cultural content was difficult to come by. Decades before YouTube, documentaries on graffiti or international film from your Herzogs or Fassbinders were as rare as hen's teeth....
The Edit
The Occupy movement through Black Lives Matter and onwards to the current Trump fiasco, protest has been a dominant force throughout the 21st century so far; let us not forget that political activism is not a contemporary fad, though. A city rarely...
Journal
Before binge-watching, before the blockbuster, before Technicolor, James Cagney and Greta Garbo; the largest showbiz industry that the world had seen would roll into town with a cast of thousands, literal tonnes of freight, and attract audiences of...
Publications
Imagine being somewhat of an outcast for daring to dabble in colour photography? Canadian photographer Fred Herzog can — working with Kodachrome slide film in the 1950s and '60s limited his exhibiting capabilities, marginalising the medical...
Publications
There's a tendency for architectural photography to be cold and impersonal, favouring the building and its details over its place in the real world; its context, surroundings, and perhaps most importantly, its inhabitants. Not so in the...
Art & Culture
Pop quiz: what is vexillography? Vexwhat? Vexillography, my friends, is the art of designing flags. But then the perennial pub-quizzers among you knew that already, so let's move on. Marking a little-known chapter in America’s vexillographic...
City Notes
As has been the case with Wynwood and the Miami Design District, many of the long-abandoned spaces dotted throughout Miami's urban core have seen regeneration at the hands of savvy developers who have one eye on the strong cultural reputation the...
City Notes
Chotto Matte is drenched in the drama of Miami Beach from the moment you meet a mammoth pivoting door that punctuates a stark white façade. It only gets more impressive. A retractable ceiling sees Herzog & de Meuron's iconic 1111 Lincoln Rd car...
City Notes
Aureli Mora and Omar Ornaque of architecture practice AMOO have transformed an old bar in Barcelona's slow-paced Gràcia, transforming an elongated tube-shaped space—typical of buildings in neighbourhood—into a bright and contemporary locale...
City Notes
Eduard Eremchuk has seen off typical associations with florists and floristry with a minimalist flower shop in the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don. Moving away from a familiar abundance of flowers and natural tones, the architect instead concentrates...
Dispatches
Opening this December at the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV), Escher X nendo - Between Two Worlds is an exhibition that presents Dutch graphic artist M.C. Escher's iconic works—visual puzzles akin to optical illusions—seamlessly to life...
Dispatches
Paying homage to the Irani cafés that once upon a time were the fabric of life in Bombay, Dishoom has been serving Bombay comfort food such as House Black Daal, Pau Bhaji, and the Bacon Naan Roll since 2010—when the first restaurant opened in...
Dispatches
We've received the first 'actual' image of Ian Schrager's The Shanghai EDITION, which is set to launch this October. Located in a 1929 art deco building on Nanjing Road—the former headquarters of Shanghai Power Company—the hotel will feature 145...
Dispatches
In a bid to disrupt the professional delivery services industry, French automobile manufacturer Renault have just premiered the Renault EZ-PRO—an autonomous, electric, connected, and shared robo-pod concept—at the Hannover Motor Show. A shared...