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April 28th, 2021 By David Knox Make a commentFiled under: Streaming,
Season 2 of
The Art of Architecture will premiere on Shelter from Saturday.
The series features 10 x 44min episodes, plus two specials focussing on Opera Houses and Museums. Also featuring are two Australian buildings.
Shelter creator Dustin Clare said, “The second season of
The Art of Architecture is a fitting companion to the first season, also available on Shelter. This is the kind of screen content that makes my heart sing – it takes an in-depth look at not just the buildings, but introduces us to the influences and inspiration of the designers who envisioned them.
Escape artists
Inspired by the scenic beauty in Montgomery County’s 93,000-acre agricultural reserve, the members of the Countryside Artisans include painters, potters, a blown-glass maker, a stone sculptor, and a farmer who grows tea By Amy Halpern |
Artist Tina Thieme Brown at Morningstar Studio. Photo by Breann Fields
Every spring, when Claire Howard’s cherry trees start to blossom, they form a flowering pink canopy that drapes across the private road leading to her home and art studio. Just beyond the 70 trees are wide green pastures, rolling hills and a seemingly endless sky. She even has a wishing well. If not for a hand-painted wooden sign in the grass that warns, “Smile, you’re being recorded,” you might think you’ve wandered into a fairy tale.
Wright & Wright: ‘You’ve only got one life, so build buildings that you believe in’
28 January 2021 By Rob Wilson, photography by Ben Blossom
Rob Wilson talks to Wright and Wright partners Clare and Sandy Wright, Stephen Smith and Naila Yousuf on site at the practice’s soon-to-open reworking of the Museum of the Home
Credit: Wright & Wright
Walking around the soon-to-open Museum of the Home (formerly the Geffrye Museum) in London, Wright & Wright’s four partners, even socially distanced and masked up, exude a good-humoured ease as they talk with zest about its design.
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It seems indicative of a practice whose office culture Naila Yousuf, the most recently appointed partner, describes as ‘very social … a bit like a weird and wonderful family.’ Naila, who led the final stages of the Museum’s transformation, became a partner in 2020, joining Stephen Smith (a partner since 2011) and the two founders, Clare and Sandy Wright, at the helm of