Concrete affords an outdoor space an anchor. It's highly resilient but deeply contextual. The context is its materiality—modern concrete evokes something industrial and sparse, which both Simlai and Pfaff counteract with botanical elements and material mixing.
Ceramic factories mark the transition from manual knowledge to serial production, expanding its scale without entirely severing its material origins. Scattered across different territories, these structures record the relationship between technique, landscape, and time.
"There's no one size fits all," says Nate Fox, cofounder-along with his brother Justin-of Santa Ana, California-based luxury landscape architecture firm Foxterra Design. "Do you want a swimming pool? Do you entertain? Do you want to create a sanctuary? It all hinges on understanding how you live."
'We understand design not as a passive product to be consumed, but as an active dialogue. Our DNA is about involving people so they don't just 'attend' an event, but literally take part in shaping it.'
Michael Jantzen's Monumental Engines of Creation series features sculptures that appear to serve a function, yet their purpose remains deliberately ambiguous, inviting viewers to engage with them on a deeper level.
Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel: The Exhibition is essentially an immersive type show that will offer highly detailed, massive scale looks at the 34 frescoes that make up the chapel's ceiling and collectively tell the story of Genesis.
'SubWave,' created by Ryan Webber, Gwen Goins, and Rafia Santana, draws from the rhythms of the East River, including waves synchronized with the passing subway, revealing forgotten histories along the shoreline.
Andreas Kostopoulos reactivates a 19th-century warehouse into Castor Place, a multi-use cultural venue designed to host an evolving spectrum of events, balancing preservation with a forward-looking spatial strategy.
"Museums, art galleries, theaters, and performing arts spaces across the U.K. are facing the biggest financial and existential threat to their survival in generations, and yet their role not just as important public and civic spaces, but as places where people can collectively imagine and create new sustainable futures feels more important than ever."
"For the second time, two Brazilian curators are taking on, together and on equal footing, the artistic leadership of an edition," said Andrea Pinheiro, the president of the Fundação Bienal de São Paulo. "It is a decision born of a careful collective selection process and a clear conviction: that there exists, in Brazil, a curatorial generation with the talent, experience and vision necessary to keep the Bienal de São Paulo at the centre of the artistic debate of our time."
After we bought the palazzo, we lay on the floor in the music room to look at the details in the ceilings-and to understand what we just bought. That spirit of curiosity has guided curatorial decisions, as they placed artworks in conversation with ornate interiors.
