The Architecture of Openness
How REX’s Perelman Performing Arts Center brings theatrical flexibility and a luminous civic presence to Lower Manhattan.
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A Conversation with Hannah Grendel
Photography is at the centre of Hannah’s personal practice. She studied photography at Hochschule Düsseldorf in Germany, and she works mostly on analog film, always in series rather than single images. Her practice extends to editing, sequencing and designing photobooks and zines. For her, the way photographs are arranged and placed in conversation with each other is as important as the images themselves.
White and Red
Marina Overchuk’s series Pure Souls*, awarded Gold in Advertising/Self-Promotion at the Tokyo International Foto Awards 2024, uses a single figure and two colors to address loss and resilience during the war in Ukraine.* Photographs of war usually aim to show what happened: the damaged building, the evacuation, the soldier, the grieving family. Marina Overchuk’s Pure […]
Order in the Dust
Todd Antony, named Sports Photographer of the Year at the International Photography Awards 2025, photographs Buzkashi in Tajikistan: a game with almost no rules, hundreds of riders and no fixed teams. Sports photography usually depends on structure. There is a pitch, a ball, two teams, a clock, and a photographer who knows where the decisive […]
Light as a Filter
Atelier Carle’s OAKV, a winner at the Architecture MasterPrize, turns a dermatology clinic in an anonymous suburban business center into a gradual journey from public space to private care. Some of the most demanding architectural briefs arrive without a remarkable site. No view, no landmark, no generous daylight. Just a unit in a business center, […]
Glass Against Time
The scale is extraordinary, and the logistics alone deserve recognition.
Lily Latifi: The Poetry of Space and Material
How the Paris-based designer transforms textiles into architecture, bringing light, movement, and emotion into the spaces we inhabit
Creative Spotlights
Selected award-recognized projects, examined through an independent editorial lens.
Beyond the Headlines: Chaz Niell and the Human Face of Protest
With Roe V. Wade Fully Human, the 2024 IPA Photographer of the Year turns a divisive public debate into a study of presence, conviction, and lived experience.
When the Theater Ceiling Comes Alive
In Dublin, subtle lighting interventions reveal centuries of craft at Royal Hospital Kilmainham.
Bringing Back the Light of a Queen
At Luxor’s Temple of Hatshepsut, a carefully reversible lighting scheme brings ancient architecture into view after dark.
When Typography Becomes Art
Yiwen Zhang’s experimental graphic project draws on punk culture to explore expression, emotional experience, and the printed page.
GALBOT S1: The Changing Face of Product Design
GALBOT S1, designed by Yong Zheng, receives ePDA’s Product Design of the Year distinction and invites a broader discussion of the objects shaping tomorrow.
Light, Memory and the Public Realm
A memorial lighting project invites a closer look at atmosphere, restraint and remembrance.