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Building in Berlin: a new book shines light on the early career of Richard Neutra
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Remembering Cornelia Hahn Oberlander (1921-2021)
Cornelia Hahn Oberlander, the famed Canadian landscape architect, has passed away at the age of 99 in Vancouver. Here, we pay tribute to her life and work.
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British modernism inspires Waldo Works’ Television Centre penthouse
Tom Bartlett, founder of interior design firm Waldo Works, brings a British modernist interior to the largest Television Centre penthouse through a Festival of Britain-inspired colour pallette and design pieces from Living Diwani, Barber Osgerby, Ingo Maurer and Olivia Aspinall
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Escape to sunny California with 2022 Palm Springs Modernism Week’s preview
The traditional autumn preview of the annual Palm Springs Modernism Week is upon us, with some 50 events that offer a taster of what's to come when the real thing hits, in February 2022
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How Donald Wexler and William Krisel turned Palm Springs into a Hollywood retreat
In 2012 (W* 152), we met architects Donald Wexler (1926-2015) and William Krisel (1924-2017), in their natural habitat, Palm Springs, a place that they, along with Albert Frey, E Stewart Williams and William Cody, turned from dust to diamonds. Wexler earned his reputation as an innovator with his steel-framed prefabs, going on to design the second home for actress Dinah Shore, while Krisel, architect of the Twin Palms Estates an elegant tract of holiday homes, was renowned for designing a slew of housing from LA to the San Fernando Valley. Both architects had Palm Springs in common, and lived to watch their legacies unfold.
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A modernist Hertfordshire house that causes ‘puzzlement to the neighbours’
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’Never Built: Los Angeles’ presents an alternative vision of the US city
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Richard Meier adds a sleek new addition to Tel Aviv’s White City
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Photographer Mona Kuhn reflects on mysticism and modernism in Joshua Tree
The Brazilian artist ventures into the desert for a new series, She Disappeared into Complete Silence, capturing her muse in Robert Stone’s golden Acido Dorado house
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In memoriam: Juliaan Lampens (1926-2019)
At the age of 93, Belgian architect Juliaan Lampens, a masterful builder in concrete, wood and glass, has passed away in Ghent
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Brutalist book club: colossal compendiums of concrete architecture
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The architects who built Palm Springs: William Cody
Lured to Palm Springs in 1945 by Nellie Coffman – ‘The Mother of Palm Springs’, Cody’s (1916-1978) first commission was to extend the Desert Inn. The following year, Cody received his first standalone job, the Del Marcos Hotel and soon he was designing country clubs and private homes all over town.
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Erich Mendelsohn’s Villa Weizmann is one of the German émigré’s modernist masterpieces
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Modernist marvel: virtually tour the multifaceted universe of Eileen Gray
Explore, watch and learn about the twists and turns of the Eileen Gray’s oeuvre through furniture, femininity and film on Bard Graduate Center Gallery’s interactive digital companion to the New York exhibition
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Four architects on the influence of Palm Springs
Many contemporary architects working today have been inspired by the modernist architecture of Palm Springs. Modernism Week brings them back to the desert town for a series of events that focus on the work of contemporary architects from restorations and renovations, to obsessions and design expressions
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An Instagram hotspot in Tokyo is under threat, so snap it before it’s flattened
Designed by architect Kisho Kurokawa, the iconic Nakagin Capsule Tower in Tokyo has become something of an Instagram pilgrimage for architecture enthusiasts. But as the building fell into a state of disrepair, the Metabolist landmark has long been in danger of demolition and the final decision is to be made by the building’s management society by vote
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Houses of the Sundown Sea: The architectural vision of Harry Gesner
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Paulo Mendes da Rocha’s São Paulo house for art dealer Eduardo Leme
Paulo Mendes da Rocha has a fan in art dealer Eduardo Leme, who commissioned the Brazilian architect to design both his house and art gallery in São Paulo. Wallpaper* visited Casa Millán in 2006 (W*88), to find out how the brutal concrete residence, originally built by da Rocha in 1969 for another art dealer, was adapted for its new owner
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‘The Barbican Estate’ by Stefi Orazi celebrates 50 years of modernist living
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Serge Cajfinger swaps Paris for a Bahia beach house by Marcio Kogan
Brazilian architect Marcio Kogan designs a dream house out of concrete blocks and a eucalyptus-stick pergola for Paule Ka founder Serge Cajfinger
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Barbi Benton’s Colorado home is filled with delicious disco deco
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Gagosian brings a taste of Casa Malaparte to London
London's Gagosian Gallery presents a collection of furniture reproductions from Casa Malaparte, Curzio Malaparte's legendary villa perched atop a promontory on the island of Capri
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Painting architecture: Tommy Fitzpatrick’s fractured modernist visions
Tommy Fitzpatrick’s new series of electric-hued architectural paintings capture the American artist's 30-year fascination with modernism
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Rawlins Design breathes new life into midcentury Fire Island House
Rawlins Design respectfully remodels a midcentury gem on New York’s Fire Island, a 1969 house originally designed by architect Harry Bates
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Modernist posters reimagine the architecture of James Bond
James Bond is brought to life in new and wonderful ways through these modernist illustrations from the films
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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's Villa Tugendhat returns to form
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Modernist muse: the art world significance of Mies van der Rohe’s collages
