Viktor and Rolf launch their new website

It is not the first time I write a post on Viktor&Rolf. This time the designers invite us in their world with an interesting video they made for the launch of their new website.
Enjoy !

To learn more : www.viktor-rolf.com

Guggenheim NYC: I Want to Believe by Cai Guo-Qiang

The Guggenheim in NYC presents a very impressive and interesting show by Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang. Given the current situation in Tibet, this exhibition comes at a right time since it denounces the horrors and un-exisiting human rights in China. Among other material, the artist uses gunpowder on amazing installations or paintings. Even if the facade of the Museum is currently being renovated, this show is definitely worth the visit.

"Cai Guo-Qiang is internationally acclaimed as an artist whose creative transgressions and cultural provocations have literally exploded the accepted parameters of art making in our time. This is especially true of Inopportune: Stage One, Cai’s largest installation to date, which presents nine real cars in a cinematic progression that simulates a car bombing, occupying the central atrium of the Frank Lloyd Wright rotunda."

To learn more: http://www.guggenheim.org/exhibitions/exhibition_pages/cai.html

New Prada Foundation by Rem Koohlaas

The Italian house chose Rem Koohlaas to design the new Prada Foundation. This collaboration is not the first one since the Dutch architect had already designed shops in the US. Rem Koohlaas will renovate a factory situated in the south of Milan. This new space will represent 17 500 m2. OMA (Office for Metropolitan Architecture) will be in charge of the renovation. This group of architects directed by Rem Koolhaas will design the Foundation which should host concerts, exhibitions and conferences. The Prada Foundation was created in 1993 by Miuccia Prada and Patrizio Bertelli in collaboration with a major Arte Povera artist, Germano Celan. The artists such as Anish Kapoor and Carsten were the guests of current Fondation Prada in the centre town of Milan.

To learn more: http://www.prada.com/

Guggenheim Hermitage Museum, Vilnius by Zaha Hadid Architects

Zaha Hadid Architects have won a competition to design the Guggenheim Hermitage Museum in Vilnius, Lithuania.

The competition was part of a feasibility study by the Guggenheim Foundation and the State Hermitage Museum of St. Petersburg, Russia.

Architects Daniel Libeskind and Massimiliano Fuksas also submitted proposals. All three submissions will be on display at the exhibition Imagining the Future: Design Proposals for a New Museum in Vilnius at the Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center in Vilnius from today until the end of June.

To learn more: http://www.zaha-hadid.com/