Grove at Grand Bay by BIG: Bjarke Ingels Group

i watched these take shape while living in the grove — wonderful to see them completed. nice work + detailing! m.

developed by real estate firm terra, the ‘grove at grand bay’ has been designed by bjarke ingels group in collaboration with nichols, brosch, wrust, wolfe + associates, with raymond jungles undertaking the project’s landscaping. between them, the scheme’s two 20-storey structures contain a total of 98 units, topped with dual level penthouses. other amenities include a total of seven pools, a spa and fitness center, and an on-site art gallery.

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Barcelona, The Sagrada Família by Antoni Gaudí

beautiful images! terrific article after the jump! m.

“Born in 1852 at Reus, Terragona, Antoni Gaudí i Cornet attended the Escuela Superior de Arquitectura in Barcelona, graduating in 1878. In 1884 he succeeded Francisco de Paula del Villar y Lozano as architect in charge of the Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família, on which he worked uninterruptedly for the next forty years. From 1910, Gaudí gradually gave up all his other commitments to concentrate exclusively on the Sagrada Família. Run over by a tram on his way to prayers, Gaudí died on 10 June 1926. He was buried in the crypt of the Sagrada Família.”

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Gerhard Richter: “Our times are so unquiet”

sharp series as usual — terrific minimalist works. m.

Richter took one of his own works, and halved a fragment of the image vertically on a computer. He mirrored the image and repeated the process again and again. After a while patterns emerge from the mirrored, incidental skids of paint. “Rows of faces appeared, monsters, flowers, mandalas,” he tells me. As the image gets halved and squeezed again and again, ever smaller repetitive patterns are produced, reminiscent of Islamic decoration, until at a certain point these horizontal bands take over. Were he to continue, he explains, the bands themselves would disappear into a kind of optical white noise, and eventual visual silence.

Richter chose sections from these bands and recombined them for these larger works. They come at you like complex visual chords. Richter had no idea what would happen when he began this process. He touches one of the panels with his knuckle. “The memory of all the images that came and went is still here.”

Looking around, Richter announces that there will be no more Strips and no more Flows. “That’s it, totally,” he says with finality. This whole complex arc of works began while he was heavily involved in the major retrospective that toured to Tate in 2011, and took him away from his studio for long periods. What’s next? “I want to make small paintings. Landscapes, abstracts, I don’t know.” When will you know? “When I start. The answer comes by working. My dream is to close the door and paint. It will happen. It will come.”

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Diana Moldovan: Metallic Style for Vogue Taiwan

sharp designs and shoot. m.

Looking as good as gold, Diana Moldovan shines in the July 2015 issue of Vogue Taiwan starring in an editorial called, ‘Golden Eye’. Photographed by Jamie Nelson, the dark-haired stunner channels her inner Bond girl in metallic looks styled by Jimi Urquiaga. With gilded designs from the likes of Roberto Cavalli, Saint Laurent and Tom Ford, Diana serves up glamour complete with a sheared haircut and smokey eyes. / Makeup by Lottie, Hair by Ryan Taniguchi.

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