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Polyphony, Ruins, and the Post-Soviet Sensorium: Notes from Tbilisi Art Fair 2026
7+ hour, 23+ min ago (146+ words) Georgia Today Polyphony, Ruins, and the Post-Soviet Sensorium: Notes from Tbilisi Art Fair 2026 This year's edition of Tbilisi Art Fair 2026 at Expo Georgia unfolded with a peculiar duality. On one level, it retained the recognizable structure of a regional contemporary…...
Trump Tower Tbilisi: 70-storey skyscraper design published
3+ week, 7+ hour ago (137+ words) The first rendering of the Trump Tower planned for Tbilisi has been published, with Newsweek reporting that the total cost of the development in central Tbilisi is $2 billion. The image shows a 70-storey skyscraper featuring the word "Trump" in gold…...
A Plant against Concrete: Tbilisi Mural Enters Europe's Visual Canon
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (655+ words) The facts are straightforward. Twenty-five murals were shortlisted. Experts and artists selected a top five. Spain took first place, France second; Cyprus and Belgium completed the list. Tbilisi, unexpectedly and yet somehow inevitably, landed at number three. But the ranking…...
When Architecture Becomes a Character
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (1144+ words) There are films in which a city's architecture appears not as a backdrop, but as something more elusive: a presence, a rhythm, a way of shaping movement and attention. To watch them is to experience space differently " not only as…...
The Real Value of Interior Design, According to David Kavlelashvili of ART LINE STUDIO
3+ mon, 5+ day ago (625+ words) Interior design is often perceived through the lens of aesthetics, trends, and visual expression. Yet for David Kavlelashvili, Founder and Interior Designer of ART LINE STUDIO, this understanding is incomplete. In his professional view, an interior is not a decorative…...
Cinema as a Built Environment: How Tbilisi Learns to Watch Architecture
3+ mon, 4+ week ago (453+ words) Shot from the movie Running from late January through mid-March, the program assembles a canon where buildings are never mere backdrops. They breathe, dominate, decay, seduce, and occasionally betray their inhabitants. This is architecture as fate, as ideology, as erotic…...
Shorena Tsilosani: Shaping Space, Minds, and the Future of Georgian Architecture
5+ mon, 2+ week ago (886+ words) "Text is architecture." It means that every structure should begin with an idea, a narrative, a meaning "Architecture is not only about aesthetics," she says. "It's about understanding how space communicates with people " how it feels, functions, and inspires." With…...
Georgia launches rehabilitation of five major museums
7+ mon, 4+ week ago (83+ words) The Ministry of Culture has announced the launch of a big infrastructure program focused on the rehabilitation of five major. .. The Ministry of Culture has announced the launch of a big infrastructure program focused on the rehabilitation of five major…...
Archi Begins Long-Term Partnership with World-Renowned Architect Wei Yap Ooi
10+ mon, 6+ day ago (537+ words) Archi Sets a New Standard in Modern Architecture " the leading development company is beginning a long-term collaboration with internationally acclaimed architect Wei Yap Ooi. The memorandum, officially signed on July 19 between Archi and Wei Yap Architecture, aims to have all…...
Lia Bagrationi's Sacred Geometry: 13 Aquariums and a Fish
10+ mon, 1+ week ago (963+ words) Lia Bagrationi, the acclaimed Tbilisi-based contemporary artist, is known for her large-scale installations that draw viewers into quiet, spiralling acts of reflection. Her latest work, "13 Aquariums and a Fish," offers a similarly meditative and conceptually layered experience. Exploring themes of…...