Architecture

January 31, 2025

New Book Explores the Fascinating Role of Optical Illusions in Architecture and Design

Much like a crossword, the confounding images in a new coffee table book, titled Illusion in Design, offers clues while withholding answers until the end. What are we to make of chairs floating in midair, or floors that seem to buckle under their own weight? The challenge in and subsequent reward of deciphering these visual puzzles is the entire point of this mystifying book.

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January 11, 2025

Floating Bicycle Bridge in Belgium Beautifully Adapts to Its Unique Mining Landscape

In the 20th century, the border between Dilsen-Stokkem and Maasmechelen in Belgium radically transformed. The area withstood years of coal and gravel mining in its subsoil, which created two terrills—large piles of mining waste materials— and, later, a large pond between them. Now, the Belgian architecture firm BuroLandschap presents a clever solution to bridging the gap between these mountains.

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December 30, 2024

Frida Escobedo Is the First Woman to Design a Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

For the first time in its 154-year history, New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art is getting a new wing designed by a female architect. Mexican architect Frida Escobedo will design the new Oscar L. Tang and H.M. Agnes Hsu-Tang Wing, which will house the museum's world-class 20th- and 21st-century art collection. The MET has just released Escobedo's plans for the five-story wing, which will have over 70,000 square feet of display space.

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