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Vatican Begins 5-Year Restoration of Raphael Loggia
5+ hour, 47+ min ago (431+ words) One of the most intricately decorated parts of the Vatican's Apostolic Palace, a passageway walked by popes and presidents and attributed to Renaissance master Raphael, is. .. Vatican Begins 5-Year Restoration of Raphael Loggia One of the most intricately decorated parts…...
In NYC, a Historic Art World Merger
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (374+ words) New York's biggest art museum is about to get a very gilded annex. The Metropolitan Museum of Art on Thursday announced it will take over the Neue Galerie'the Ronald. .. In NYC, a Historic Art World Merger New York's biggest art…...
New Home Designs Are Saying Goodbye to Dining Rooms
5+ mon, 2+ week ago (381+ words) The once-standard formal dining room is quietly vanishing from many new homes, pushed aside by tighter budgets and shifting priorities, Axios reports. Almost 80% of designers working on new housing developments say separate dining rooms have slipped down buyers' wish lists…...
JPMorgan's New Skyscraper Is a NYC Eyesore
6+ mon, 1+ week ago (449+ words) Oliver Wainwright is out with a harsh review of JPMorgan Chase's new headquarters in Manhattan. Writing for the Guardian, Wainwright's take is unrelenting from the start, describing the 60-story building as a "mountainous lump" that "galumphs its way up above…...
Frank Gehry Replaced Boxy Buildings With Joyful Designs
6+ mon, 2+ week ago (458+ words) Frank Gehry, a giant of American architecture who designed buildings in never-before-seen shapes in imaginative attempts to invoke joy'bringing him critical and popular acclaim'has died. He was 96. Gehry's chief of staff said he died Friday at his home in Santa…...
Robert A. M. Stern Designed Towers, Taught Architecture
6+ mon, 3+ week ago (836+ words) Robert AM Stern, a leading figure in American architecture and education, died Thursday. He was 86. His son said Stern died at his Manhattan home after a brief pulmonary illness, the Washington Post reports. In a career spanning six decades, Stern…...
This Is Now the World's Tallest Church by 4 Feet
7+ mon, 3+ week ago (405+ words) Barcelona's Sagrada Familia basilica became the world's tallest church on Thursday after a part of its central tower was lifted into place. The masterwork of architect Antoni Gaud" now rises to 534 feet above the city, the church said in a…...
Famed Landscape Architect Dies in Brazil Plane Crash
9+ mon, 3+ hour ago (529+ words) Kongjian Yu, the landscape architect who dreamed up the "sponge city" concept, has died in a plane crash in Brazil's Pantanal wetlands while filming a documentary about his trailblazing work. Yu, 62, was en route to a ranch near the border…...