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Neri&Hu highlights simplicity and functionality at Shanghai art gallery

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Chinese studio Neri&Hu has designed a contemporary art gallery for Ota Fine Arts in Shanghai with a focus on the "sublime beauty of the banal". Handmade ivory tiles line the inner side of the window in a subtle woven pattern, serving as a neutral backdrop for the art pieces.

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MAD designs Nanhai Art Center to emulate "continuous wave of water"

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Architecture studio MAD has revealed its design for an arts centre on a waterfront site in Guangdong, China , which will have an undulating form modelled on moving water. Encompassing 121,275 square metres, the mixed-use Nanhai Art Center will be divided into three buildings containing a theatre, museum and sports centre.

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Panter Hudspith Architects creates "contemporary vernacular" for Orchard Gardens housing

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We developed a contemporary vernacular that could then be used to articulate each block, creating individual characters within this family of buildings," he told Dezeen. The post Panter Hudspith Architects creates "contemporary vernacular" for Orchard Gardens housing appeared first on Dezeen.

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Neri&Hu creates "wooden hut" and "cave-dwelling" interiors for Shanghai stores

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The Wooven Moonlight store features a double-pitch sloped ceiling clad with concrete Neri&Hu was founded by architects Lyndon Neri and Rosanna Hu in 2004 in Shanghai. The studio also recently completed a simplicity contemporary art gallery , and a fashion boutique with fabrics and marble screens , both in Shanghai.

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Kazuyo Sejima wins 2023 Jane Drew Prize for women in architecture

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The 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa is among SANAA's best-known projects The duo established SANAA in 1995 and went on to receive international recognition together with major projects including the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa, which it designed in 2004.

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From the mountains of Papua New Guinea to the walls of galleries around the world

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Photo: Drusilla Modjeska, March 2004 Ömie barkcloth: Pathways of nioge presents one of the largest public collections of stylistically vibrant contemporary barkcloth art made by the Ömie people of Northern (Oro) Province, PNG. On the gallery walls in Sydney, their nioge (barkcloth) can hang as contemporary art.

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SANAA named winner of 2022 Praemium Imperiale for architecture

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Japanese architecture studio SANAA 's founders Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa have been named the architecture laureates for this year's Praemium Imperiale awards by the Japan Art Association. One of SANAA's first major projects was the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa. Photo is by Dean Kaufman.