Selfie-stick architecture is as empty as New York's Vessel
Creating stuctures mainly for their Instagram impact is a frustrating trend in architecture
The Vessel opened in New York's Hudson Yards and the reaction was very mixed
Critics were generally not impressed, but a few locals and tourists couldn't get enough of its views designed for selfies
Elizabeth Diller on the High Line, her plans for the Barbican and why she likes doing things she's 'unqualified' for
Elizabeth Diller, founding partner of Diller Scofidio + Renfro, best known for work on New York’s High Line, speaks to Icon about activism and architecture
Bodys Isek Kingelez at the MoMA
Museum of Modern Art, New York
66 May 2018 - 21 October 2018
NYCxDESIGN (including ICFF)
Various locations, New York City
11 May 2018 - 23 May 2018
Christopher Scoates appointed new MAD Director
Christopher Scoates joins the MAD in New York as Director after a stint at Cranbrook Academy of Art and Art Museum in Michigan.
The Jazz Age: ‘It seems timely now to look at a period that was so enriched by a large amount of immigration’
The curator of this major exhibition at New York’s Cooper Hewitt tells us about the thinking behind the show and some of its highlights
Tom Dyckhoff: “How successful is a city where freedom is only available to those with money to invest?”
Forty years ago, poverty, crime and de-industrialisation nearly killed off the West’s major cities. Today, an abundance of cash threatens to do a similar thing
Rei Kawakubo / Comme des Garçons: Art of the In-Between
The Met Fifth Avenue
4 May — 4 September 2017
Vagelos Center, New York: Diller Scofidio + Renfro's medical school for Columbia University
Most medical schools are fit only for cadavers. Diller Scofidio + Renfro has injected a sense of life into the typology with a tower of morphing, cascading spaces in Manhattan
Fashion after Fashion
Museum of Arts and Design, New York
27 April — 6 August 2017
Making Space: Women Artists and Abstraction
Museum of Modern Art, New York
15 April — 13 August 2017
The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s
Cooper Hewitt, New York
7 April — 20 August 2017
Vladimir Kagan: The unlikely champion of mid-century opulence
The ‘Kagan look’ took mid-century modern design and added organic forms, a sense of joy – and even comfort. No wonder he is so often overlooked, says John Jervis
Obsidian House, New York, by WorkAC: ‘We thought, what is the contemporary version of cast iron?’
With its digitally enhanced facade and ‘invisible’ penthouse, the renovation of a historic iron-clad building in TriBeCa is both respectful and radical
Hudson, New York
The Upstate town has become an affordable haven for New York designers enticed by the opportunity for a life removed from – but still close enough to – the big city
Manus x Machina at The Met
A show in New York juxtaposes the handmade and technologically fabricated, challenging the assumptions we make about each method, says Anja Wohlstrom
Studio Job Mad House
For their New York solo debut, the Belgian designers have put together a typically exuberant snapshot of their 16-year career, says Caia Hagel
Beauty – Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial
From the ethereal to the grotesque, a show in New York surprises and enthrals by mixing elements of design we don’t traditionally think of as equal, says Caia Hagel
Beauty: Cooper Hewitt Triennial
Cooper Hewitt, New York
12 February – 21 August
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