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Grand Hyatt Barcelona has opened its Art Deco inspired doors

Hotel Designs

With its array of gastronomic delights and a bespoke spa, the hotel offers not just accommodation but a destination within the city – a haven for those in search of a unique escape or the perfect setting for conferences and meetings, located in one of the top twenty meeting and event destinations in the world.

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Burning Man’s 2024 temple design is revealed – and it’s inspired by Lebanese weaving techniques

The Spaces

Artist Caroline Ghosn is leading the design of this year’s Burning Man temple, combining Lebanese weaving techniques and Gothic church architecture to create the dramatic temporary structure. It will be the centrepiece of the arts festival, which takes place in the Black Rock Desert from 25 August 2024 until 2 September 2024.

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Arte transports us to Babylon

Hotel Designs

Cuneiform script was created by people carving and drawing in clay tablets and rock walls, and it is this technique of sculpting in clay that serves as inspiration for the Babylon collection. The tile-shaped design of Mejdoul has a great deal of relief, due to the technique used and the voluminous material.

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Boano Prišmontas creates art gallery that "is unmistakably a barn"

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London studio Boano Prišmontas has created a small private art gallery shaped like a barn in rural Hertfordshire, UK. Designed as a peaceful place to display art, the small gallery combines the traditional barn form with modern construction techniques.

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Portland and New Orleans: river cities considered

Portland Architecture

That was true for me 22 years ago this month, when I arrived for college in New York in 1990, having enrolled at a university there without ever visiting the city first. Even the city's extraordinarily pothole-ridden streets are because of the water underground, constantly shifting the topography.

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Marion Verboom brings her sculptural columns to Brussels for her debut show in the city

The Spaces

Chryséléphantine brings together loaned works from Verboom’s vast archive and new pieces that draw on motifs and ideas inspired by her time in the Belgian capital. The columns are a sum of their parts. Photography: Isabelle Arthuis / Fondation d’entreprise Hermès.

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Suiyue Art by DA INTEGRATING

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As a hub of Sichuan-style art, Chengdu has witnessed a group of outstanding artists such as He Duoling, Zhou Chunya, and Zhang Xiaogang emerge at the end of the last century. As a part of the local cultural cluster, SUIYUE ART finds its new location in an old office building in the 1980s on Fangcao West Street.

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