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Looking like an outsized piece of elaborately folded paper, the new Bella Sky hotel just outside of Copenhagen stands out on the horizon--lust what Danish architectural firm 3XN and the [...]

The lighting design of French luxury retailer, Louis Vuitton, is described. George Sexton Associates are the lighting designers of the stores, which is located on the Champs-Elysees in Paris.

The article focuses on art installation "Silence—Alone in a World of Wounds" created by Studio Morison (Heather Peak and Ivan Morison) which resembles a medieval building or perhaps a shelter from some apocalyptic future in which humans have returned to the land. Topics include examines that the Oak Project was founded by a group of philanthropists who had a shared passion around trying to motivate public action on the environment, particularly on the restoration of nature.

Iole Alessandrini, a multimedia expert, discusses lighting effects in architecture. A brief profile of Alessandrini is also presented.

A description of the lighting designs created by the young British designer, Paul Cocksedge, is presented.

The article explores the work and life of a former scenographer who helped to design backdrops for other people's cinema productions, Italian sculptor Edoardo Tresoldi. It mentions that public works include Etherea, a neoclassical and Baroqueinspired, site-specific installation created for the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in California, and Pensieri, a sculpture of a reclining male figure facing the sea.

London's Southwark Council has just begun deliberations on the London Bridge Tower. Billed as the tallest building in Europe, the project, designed by Renzo Piano and developed by Irvine Sellar, [...]

The race for the right to host the 2008 Olympics is on. Once more among the pack is the city that environmentalists have labeled a 'black spot,' and human rights [...]

The door may have closed at the much-maligned Millennium Dome in London on New Year's Day but the show still goes on. Who gets the Dome and at what price [...]

London's Alsop & Stormer may have won this year's stirling Prize, Britain's biggest architecture award, but critics won't left the firm enjoy it. Naysayers have denounced the shortlist of this [...]

Exposure Architects built a cafeteria above the waters of a lake for the workers of Satin Textiles Company. The unique structure and design of the building is discussed.

Son-O-House is a permanent public artwork located on the outskirts of Son en Breugel in Netherlands. Architecture and sound have been enmeshed in this unique work of art. Sound is captured as you move along the place and is replayed.

France's new Vendee Historical Museum has been designed in such a way that it appears to melt into the green expanse of a river valley outside the village of Lucssur-Boulogne, where it is located. The museum's sedum roof appears to approaching visitors as a low-lying geometric hill, a series of triangular grassy folds punctuated with skylights and beneath this is housed the exhibition hall.

Citroen has selected architect Manuelle Gautrand to design its new car showroom.

The article profiles multimedia artist Iole Alessandrini. Trained as an architect and fine artist in Italy and as a lighting designer at the University of Washington, the Seattle resident employs daylight, electric illumination, sound, and video in ephemeral, site-specific installations, often within industrial buildings and urban ruins. Her goal is to enhance and bring attention to neglected built environments, perhaps sparking public debate.

This article features the architectural lamps designed by designer Paul Cocksedge. His fixtures transform the familiar into something engaging, while eliciting a measure of mystery. Styrene, a lamp made from melted polystyrene cups, was one of his early works. Figuring out that it was caused by ultraviolet (UV) light, he went out and purchased a blacklight. The more powerful UV light source made the drink glow an eerie blue, produced by quinine molecules in the tonic water fluorescing in the light.

This article features the architectural lamps designed by Australian visual artist Stephen Hennessy. Ranging from freestanding sculptural works to monumental chandeliers of technical ingenuity, Hennessy's fixtures grace the walls, floors, and ceilings of some of the most prominent buildings in Melbourne, Victoria. His earliest works were far from monumental in size. Hennessy's first lamps resembled primitive wooden masks. The curved birch-ply forms hung away from the wall, their sinuous edges casting shadowy patterns around the light fixture.

An interview with Swedish artist Kent Karlsson is presented. When asked about what has made him turn to sculpture from abstract painting, he said that he got bored in working with colors and realized that he did not know how to carry out objects in painting. He cites that his interest in church sculptures started with the sarin gas attack on the subway in Japan, which raised many questions for the religious sect. He adds that he has also worked with mirror glass and got interested in transparency.

The article examines the brick sculptures of fine artist, Andrew Burton. In creating brick sculptures, Burton uses an experimental approach for earthy forms and textures while avoiding the tendency to make useless objects for display. His creation of the "Shelter," "Cathedral," and "Stable" structures were inspired by earlier works from the European Ceramics Work Center (EKWC) in the Netherlands where he explored the potential of bricks as sculpting material.

The article features the Mikkelhorst ecological farm designed by architects Onix in Haren in Groningen, the Netherlands. The farm is similar to a barn when viewed from the northwest and in plan view, its pitched roofs at the south end have been sliced into diagonally. Its wooden walkways allow wheelchair access while its wooden surface turns upward at the point where building and sewage basin cross paths. It mentions that Onix, in designing the building, aimed to construct a structure that ages gracefully.

The article describes the architectural design of a Gallo-Roman museum in Perigueux, France designed by Jean Nouvel. It states that the rear of the museum is formed by a windowless and horizontal wall of concrete. It mentions that the darkened bookshop window from the outside is similar to a big flattened version of a Claude-glass.