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5 days ago · The structure sits in the complex context of a UNESCO World Heritage Site and still manages to maintain a conversation with the surrounding Neues and the Pergamon Museum. David Chipperfield uses the colonnade as a tool to continue the architectural language and to seamlessly place the new receiving area for the Museum Islands in a historically ...
5 days ago · In the editorial of the new Domus, guest editor 2024 explains how space exploration has led to technological innovations that have benefited humanity in various fields, including the world of design.
5 days ago · Visit Berlin's Neues Museum in the early mornings or late evenings this summer. See the famous bust of Nefertiti and the special exhibition Elephantine: Island of the Millennia. Get tickets at a special price between 9:00-10:00. and 17:30 to closing, Tuesday to Saturday.
5 days ago · David Chipperfield Architects’ London office has moved to a new space in Fitzrovia. The practice was founded in 1985 in nearby Marylebone and is returning to the West End after time in Camden, Waterloo, Aldwych and Farringdon.
4 days ago · Neoclassicism in painting gained a new sense of direction with the sensational success of Jacques-Louis David 's Oath of the Horatii at the Paris Salon of 1785. Despite its evocation of republican virtues, this was a commission by the royal government, which David insisted on painting in Rome.
5 days ago · Cambridge University has appointed BDP to restore James Stirling’s Grade II*-listed History Faculty Building. The building, which houses the university’s Seeley Library, is one of the so-called Red Trilogy of iconic buildings designed by the famous post-war architect in the 1960s.
5 days ago · Optimism in the area peaked in 2019 with the openings of Qiao Zhibing’s swanky private museum, Tank Shanghai, and the state-owned West Bund Museum (designed by David Chipperfield) signing a five-year partnership with the Centre Pompidou (that was renewed in 2023).
