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Heather Phillipson To Create Next Tate Britain Commission
Heather Phillipson (b.1978, London) will be the next artist to undertake the annual Tate Britain Commission. To be unveiled when the museum reopens, this major commission will be the latest response to the unique architecture and context of the neo-classical Duveen Galleries at the heart of Tate Britain.
Her work tackles pressing contemporary issues in singular and remarkable ways – Alex Farquharson
Audacious and disconcerting, Heather Phillipson’s expansive multimedia projects include video, sculpture, installation, music, poetry and digital media. Described by the artist as ‘quantum thought-experiments, her works often carry a sense of latent threat – a feeling that received ideas, images, and the systems that underpin them may be on the verge of collapse.
Sou Fujimoto’s brutalist concrete hotel revival transforms Maebashi
Sou Fujimoto’s brutalist concrete hotel revival transforms Maebashi
The revival of the brutalist concrete Shiroiya Hotel by architect Sou Fujimoto is part of Hitoshi Tanaka’s desire to turn an unassuming Japanese city into a design destination
The recently completed brutalist concrete Japanese architecture of the Shiroiya Hotel in the city of Maebashi, about two hours north-west of Tokyo, is a great example of what a slow and relaxed approach to architecture can achieve. Though it took three years longer than intended, and cost roughly double the original budget, both architect Sou Fujimoto and client Hitoshi Tanaka couldn’t be happier with the end result.