The Brazilian architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha died on Sunday at the age of 92 years old, following a battle with lung cancer. Credited for modernising the built landscape of Brazil and...
Back in 2014, the designer Thomas Heatherwick unveiled plans for a floating island park at Pier 55 on the Hudson River. Conceived as a ‘treasure island’ with an undulating topography, dense foliage,...
By the turn of the twentieth century, the Turtle Bay neighbourhood on the east side of Midtown Manhattan was a ‘riverside back yard’ for the city of New York. Imposing brownstones and...
As the week progressed, growing concerns over the rapid spread of coronavirus took hold of cultural events and international travel and trade. At the start of the week, a public health emergency...
Spanish General Election Results Require Coalition Today Spain went to the polls, to elect the 11th Cortes Generales since the restoration of democracy and the Spanish Constitution of 1978. Seeking election for a second...
On Monday, at a ceremony from Glasgow’s Tramway which was broadcast live on Channel 4, the architectural collective Assemble won the Turner Prize 2015. Assemble are a loose collective of eighteen young artists, designers,...
This week on Cultureteca, Katherine Mansfield’s short satirical drama ‘Stay-Laces’, published in The New Age a hundred years ago in early November 1915; the RIBA House of the Year award process gets...
At a ceremony in London on Thursday, Burntwood School in Wandsworth, London was awarded the RIBA Stirling Prize 2015. The project was designed by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, and was completed in 2014 at...
o here are fourteen photographs chiefly within the setting of the Hepworth Wakefield, the art gallery on the River Calder which opened in 2011. Named after the Wakefield-born artist Barbara Hepworth, the gallery’s permanent...