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Tell us about the early days of your practice. BENJAMIN HUBERT: My early work consisted of concrete and cork lights, ceramics and other objects that were quite singular. I was interested in recontextualizing materials in simple yet expected typologies: the classic silhouette of a lamp, for example. Over time, I became much more interested in testing the properties of materials and began working with small, specialized producers throughout Europe. The years 2008 and 2009 were marked by austerity. Because banks were going bust, there was a return to what people innately valued. Craftsmanship, things that were less polarizing, became popular again. There was a desire for comfort. Everything was moving towards the idea of singular expression. For me, this approach eventually evolved into much more complex projects – not just accessories but…

Coiffure Laurent Philippon. Maquillage Vassilis Theotokis pour M.A.C. Manucure Sylvie McMillan pour Chanel. Assistantes réalisation Nelly Carle et India Hunnikin. Set design César Sébastien.…

Producers rally round to rebuild after Ahr flood damage Winemakers in Germany’s Ahr Valley have begun rebuilding alongside local communities after terrifying floods that led to deaths and also destroyed wine cellars and property. Floods led to more than 180 deaths in Germany and Belgium in July, and the Ahr Valley was one of the worst-hit areas, with flood waters also destroying property, bridges and roads. ‘It’s a disaster,’ said Marc Adeneuer, of JJ Adeneuer winery in Ahrweiler and head of the local branch of Germany’s VDP wine association. ‘You had to run for your life,’ he said of the sudden rise of the Ahr river. In some cases, flood waters were moving so fast they carried away wine barrels and equipment. Weingut Kreuzberg, which won a Best in Show medal for its…

ON HER DAYS OFF, New Yorker Cheyney McKnight might pull on leggings and a T-shirt or an African-print dress. But it takes a bit longer for her to get ready for her day job, when she dresses in a chemise, a corset, and three layers of petticoats topped by a cotton gown and a fabric head wrap. McKnight is a 21st-century Black American, but the historical interpreter and founder of Not Your Momma’s History specializes in portraying enslaved and free people during the 18th and 19th centuries in the United States. Drawing on almost a decade of work at living history sites including Virginia’s Colonial Williamsburg, she might dress as an enslaved person to demonstrate hearth cooking at a Virginia plantation or depict a free Creole woman during a New Orleans…

We can mistake this inflection point for just another news cycle. Or we can roll up our sleeves RECENTLY, I ZOOMED INTO A WASHINGTON-BASED VIRTUAL LEADERSHIP PROGRAM THAT opened on a series of TIME covers from the past two decades. The covers (see inset) focused on the risk of pandemics from SARS, in 2003, to a 2017 story warning about a virus that “hops a plane out of China and onto foreign soil, where it could spread through the air like wildfire.” We all knew what was coming. Why, the moderator asked, were we so unprepared? The turning of the page to this New Year has only underscored the durability of the world’s multiple crises. 2020, the dark joke goes, refuses to concede. The challenges—a health crisis, a trust crisis, an inequality crisis, a…

While 2020’s Summer Games were a year late, the 2022 Winter Games are right on schedule. But not missing a beat means surprises—especially for the athletes. (Surprise number one: Their events are already complicated by politics, with the U.S. staging a diplomatic boycott—athletes will still attend; dignitaries will not—in protest of China’s human rights record.) Ski slopes that are being groomed at this moment on Xiaohaituo Mountain, in Yanqing National Park, about 60 miles north of Beijing, were originally scheduled to host a 2021 trial run. That was canceled, due to the pandemic. This month, skiers will be meeting the mountain for the first time. “None of us know it,” says Mikaela Shiffrin, 26, the alpine ski racer who has won two Olympic golds, “but what I’ve seen from the videos,…

Clean-energy startup Nikola Corp. had a tough year even by 2020 standards. The once high-flying alternative-fuel vehicle maker started life as a public company with a short seller levying fraud allegations against founder Trevor Milton, who denied the claims but then resigned after the Securities and Exchange Commission took interest. That collapsed a deal to build trucks with General Motors Co. and resulted in the indefinite postponement of Nikola’s much-ballyhooed Badger electric pickup truck. Believe it or not, the truly hard stuff is still ahead: building a real business selling large fuel cell trucks that turn hydrogen into electricity. Milton may be gone, but the SEC’s attention has had a chilling effect on Nikola’s efforts to forge partnerships that would help develop its business faster. GM in late November said it…

“Dark denim worn with bold gold jewellery is such a striking statement – and ideal for dressing across the seasons”DONNA WALLACE, FASHION & ACCESSORIES EDITOR“Crisp and clean, Ami’s skirt suit presents a modern rendition of ’90s minimalism”OLIVIA SINGER, FASHION NEWS DIRECTOR Short & SHARP Thanks to chic tailoring, thigh-skimming minis are no longer reserved for after dark Knit ONE When it comes to comfort, there’s nothing better – or cooler – than knitwear “How to wear fulllook knitwear? Proenza Schouler’s crochet halter dress”LAURA INGHAM, FASHION MARKET DIRECTOR“Whether you’re going grunge or elegant, the elongated sleeve adds a modern touch to your look”LAURA INGHAM, FASHION MARKET DIRECTOR All day LONG Take your comfort clothing from the sofa to the streets with the snuggly super-sleeve Fom Acne’s dreamlike duvet dressing to Raf Simons’s grunge-tinted enveloping knits, an array of designers…

p115 p112 Two years ago we released our first Two Good Cookbook, which celebrated gathering around a table to share good food and great stories. We only learned the word “commensality” during the making of the book – it means fellowship at the table; the positive social interactions associated with people eating together – but it is what we have unknowingly been practising for 15 years, since Two Good Co started life as a soup kitchen in Kings Cross. Two Good Co exists to fight gender inequality through rebuilding independence and self-worth. We do this through the careful creation of delicious, nutritious food and high-quality, sustainable products. You will hear many chefs talk about cooking with love; we are no different. Through good food and good things, we strive to remind those who…

EVEN IN THE DEAD OF WINTER, SUMMER BLOOMS eternal on the island of Capri. As the year winds down, dense rosemary bushes carpet the precipitous hillsides, and orange trees groaning under the weight of ripe fruit perfume now tourist-barren streets. For an outsider, it may seem strange to spend other seasons in the spiritual home of Italian high summer, but for those lucky few locals who know the island’s secrets, Capri is paradise anytime of year. The island’s abundant natural offerings are what have kept the D’Alessio family on this idyllic rock in the Bay of Naples for three generations. As proprietors of Aurora, the local restaurant beloved by residents and jet-setters alike for over a century, the clan is an indispensable part of Capri’s cultural ecosystem—and fierce champions of its…

OPENING PHOTOGRAPH: PROP STYLIST, STELLA REY AT MARK EDWARD INC. FOLLOWING STILL-LIFE PHOTOGRAPHS: PROP STYLIST, CLAIRE TEDALDI AT HALLEY RESOURCES. RUNWAY PHOTOGRAPHS: COURTESY OF BRANDS.…

Earlier this year, images of Kanye and Kim Kardashian West’s home, designed by Axel Vervoordt, provoked a flurry of think-pieces commenting on the incongruity of its minimalism, given the status of the West family at the apex of a hyper-materialistic culture. Across retail and hospitality spaces, features of the stylistic minimalism of the West home are cohering into a design typology that offers sanctuary and refreshment within, from the heated unpredictability of culture without. It is a minimalism that is not subservient to negative space. Liberated from adornment, the raw material textures of the environment take centre stage – as if the walkways and rooms are carefully chiselled from and chipped into a slab of precious rock. Wobbly or roughly hewn openings and surfaces are restrained by strict principles of proportion,…

In the early hours of July 22, hundreds of Sri Lankan soldiers marched through the country’s capital. They were preparing for a brutal crackdown on anti-government demonstrators who slept in tents at Galle Face Green, an oceanside park in Colombo. Without warning, soldiers attacked the camps and beat protesters, leaving at least 50 injured. Amnesty International described the crackdown as a “shameful, brutal assault.” Ranil Wickremesinghe, who was appointed acting president on July 13 (and subsequently elected) after the former president was ousted following civil unrest, has not shied away from using military force and extended a state of emergency he declared as acting president. When faced with criticism, Wickremesinghe reportedly lashed out at diplomats, telling U.S. Ambassador Julie Chung to “read your country’s history starting from Abraham Lincoln.” “Would your…

DIED Michael Collins Made giant leaps for mankind MICHAEL COLLINS BECAME FAMOUS FOR THE SIMPLE act of not walking on the moon. Collins, who died of cancer on April 28 at 90, is best remembered as Apollo 11’s command-module pilot—in some ways the unluckiest man on the luckiest mission of all time. It was Apollo 11 that, in the summer of 1969, stuck the first crewed lunar landing, taking Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin down to the surface, while Collins remained in orbit 60 miles above. Not just an extraordinary pilot and astronaut—he went to space once before Apollo 11, aboard the 1966 Gemini 10 flight, when he became the first person to walk in space twice—Collins was also a reflective, poetic man. “A withered, sun-seared peach pit,” was how he described the lunar…

민성홍 희림종합건축사사무소 박세현 라이프건축사사무소 이주은 이소우건축사사무소 채승빈 종합건축사사무소 시담 Min Seonghong Heerim Architects & Planners Park Sehyun LIFE architects Lee Jueun eSou Architects Chae Seungbin SIDAM Architects 민성홍은 2021년 1월부터 희림종합건축사사무소 주거본부에 재직 중이다. 충남대학교에서 건축을 공부했고 아틀리에와 대형 건축사사무소에서 인턴을 거쳤다. Min Seonghong has worked in the housing department of Heerim Architects & Planners since January 2021. He studied architecture at Chungnam National University and has interned in atelier and large-scale architectural design office. 박세현은 서울시립대학교를 졸업했고 네덜란드에 있는 아틀리에 프로에서 약 4개월 동안 인턴으로 있었다. 졸업 후 적정건축을 다니다가 현재는 라이프건축사사무소를 다니고 있다. Park Sehyun graduated from the University of Seoul and served as an intern for around four months at Atelier PRO in the Netherlands. She has worked at the Office for Appropriate Architecture after graduation, and is currently working at LIFE…

Architect Kim Dongjin (Hongik University) + L’EAU design Co., Ltd. Design team Cheon Yunpil, Cheon Suyeon, Won Jongyoung, Kim Gahee, Park Jooseok, Jang Wooseong Location 6-36, Dongtandae-ro 14-gil, Hwaseong-si, Gyeonggi-do, Korea Programme multi-family housing, neighbourhood living facility Site area 264m2 Building area 158.07m2 Gross floor area 480.45m2 Building scope B1, 3F Parking 4 Height 17.85m Building to land ratio 59.08% Floor area ratio 153.62% Structure RC Exterior finishing appointed tile, antico stucco (rasatura) Structural engineer SDM structural Engineering Construction Moowon Construction Co., Ltd. Mechanical and electrical engineer Suyang Engineering Design period Jan. – July 2018 Construction period Jan. 2019 – Feb. 2020 Client Park Sanghyun Janus is a god from ancient Roman mythology, possessing one body and two faces that correspond to two contrasting impulses. A human, despite the notion of the ego, is an agent of consciousness that communicates with an inner self, tends to create a persona unconsciously, and develop an exposed personality in order to enact one’s role in society. When one experiences desires that are in…

Chinese policymakers are increasingly convinced that the United States is determined to implement a full-fledged strategy of containment against China. Beijing views the Biden administration’s Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity as the economic mirror of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue and AUKUS, two U.S.-led security pacts that Beijing regards as anti-China coalitions. Chinese officials, academics, and media rhetoric increasingly talk of self-reliance and are preparing for a forced decoupling from the United States. Even the more moderate voices have acknowledged the profound changes in U.S.-China relations behind the “decoupling theory” and called for China to “prepare for the worst but strive for the best.” While part of the likely response will be the further strengthening of China’s military, the party-state will also tighten two economic strings in its bow. It will double…

설계 강예린(서울대학교), 건축사사무소 에스오에이(이치훈, 한주희) 설계담당 이정연, 임하은 위치 대구시 북구 호국로 300-22 용도 문화시설, 전시, 판매시설 대지면적 2,921.19m2 건축면적 547.33m2 연면적 1,384.94m2 규모 지상 3층 높이 15m 주차 9대 건폐율 18.74% 용적률 47.41% 구조 철근콘크리트조 외부마감 노출콘크리트 위 컬러스테인 내부마감 노출콘크리트 위 컬러스테인 구조설계 베이스구조기술사사무소 시공 미래로 기계설계 주성이엔지 전기설계 청송설계이앤씨 조경 디자인 스튜디오 로사이 설계기간 2020. 11. ~ 2021. 9. 시공기간 2021. 7. ~ 2022. 6. 건축주 미래로 대구 미래농원은 과거 아버지가 가꾸던 조경수 농원을 아들이 물려받아 새로운 공간으로 바꾼 프로젝트다. 프로젝트 착수 당시 대지는 20년간, 나무에 대한 애호와 함께 판매를 목적으로 아버지가 키워온 조경수로 가득했다. 관리를 위한 사택과 다섯 동의 창고 건물이 있었고 건물 외 부지는 숲에 가까운 밀도로 소나무가 식재되어 있었다. 그중 일부는 관리사택 정면에 아버지의 취향이 담긴 옛날식 정원으로 남아있었다. 20년의 시간이 만들어낸 숲과 정원의 분위기는…

Astin Le Clercq, cofounder of Modem, believes spatial meeting technology can make hybrid work a more equal and personalized experience ‘We founded Modem in the middle of the pandemic because we saw a huge opportunity in people becoming more conscious of the choices they make, especially around work. Our first research paper on hybrid work with UC Berkeley – New Office Rituals – looked at how to bring serendipity back to this highly rigid and scheduled culture of meeting-based work. From a spatial design point of view, offices will need to shift to accommodate emerging spatial meeting tools that use AR and VR. Technologies that create a common ground between people working remotely and in the office. Whether it will be wearables or mixed-reality sets, in the future there will be…

MY MOTHER UPHELD a steely work ethic. Laboring in the fields, and laboring through 11 live births—news that made our local East Los Angeles newspaper—how could she not? She had grown up in L.A. during the violent anti-Mexican deportation raids of the 1920s and ’30s, when massive sweeps herded immigrants and citizens alike. And although she believed in marriage, she became bitterly resentful of her financial dependence on my father. Thus she was determined to prevent her six daughters, us girls, from falling into the same predicaments. With the capricious raids always reminding her how “disposable” we were as Latinas, she strove to create a female tribe unafraid of hard work, a loving commune unto ourselves. At home, there was no expectation of charity. We worked for every need outside of…

I AM AN ARCHITECT ʻI am an Architectʼ was planned to meet young architects who seek their own architecture in a variety of materials and methods. What do they like, explore, and worry about? SPACE is going to discover individual characteristics of them rather than group them into a single category. The relay interview continues when the architect who participated in the conversation calls another architect in the next turn. It Divides into Two Choi Eunhwa (Choi): Your work occupies a broad spectrum in terms of fields and forms. The fields encompass architecture, technology, and art, and the forms are diverse, from space-based work to virtual images, videos, and research. I’m curious about how you embarked on your practice. Hwang Dongwook (Hwang): In 2016, I began a one-person office called ‘Building Laboratory Architecture’. The…

IT’S ONE THING TO TEST A VACCINE IN A controlled study, and another to see it in action in the real world. Since the first COVID-19 vaccines were approved at the end of 2020, more than 250 million people around the world have been vaccinated, and public-health experts are starting to see how the shots are faring when put to the ultimate test. That information is especially critical as new, more infectious versions of SARS-CoV-2 are starting to dominate new cases in certain countries—such as the U.K. and South Africa—raising concerns among both the public and health leaders over whether existing vaccines will work against these viral variants. So far, studies show that the vaccines are doing what they should. In two large data reviews—one conducted in Israel, where most people…

AR & VR AUGMENTED JOB TRAINING Magic Leap 2 Magic Leap sees a big future for augmented reality (AR) in workplaces. With this new headset, which can overlay 3D images and text on a user’s surroundings, the company is focused on employers in health care, manufacturing, retail, and other sectors. Home-improvement giant Lowe’s has begun outfitting workers with Magic Leap 2 so they can see what a store shelf should look like and then tweak displays. Manufacturers are using it to speed up training of technicians on factory floors. Fifty percent smaller than its predecessor, the headset offers a wider field of view and crisper image resolution. New “dynamic dimming” technology blocks distracting light to create an immersive work environment. Magic Leap’s open developer platform lets its customers create custom AR solutions to…

Zillow Group Inc. is best known for the addictive real estate listings that keep people browsing the internet all night, checking out interior shots of homes for sale or the estimated prices of their own houses or the ones down the street. But Chief Executive Officer Rich Barton has staked his company’s future on the idea that its software can also ease a critical pain point for U.S. homeowners: the time it takes to sell. In recent years, Zillow has essentially dived into the house-flipping business, offering to quickly take properties off sellers’ hands. And in the process it’s helping pull Wall Street even deeper into the $2 trillion U.S. housing market. In August, Zillow raised $450 million from a bond backed by homes it’s bought but not yet sold. The…

ELLIOT PAGE DOESN’T REMEMBER EXACTLY HOW LONG HE HAD BEEN ASKING. But he does remember the acute feeling of triumph when, around age 9, he was finally allowed to cut his hair short. “I felt like a boy,” Page says. “I wanted to be a boy. I would ask my mom if I could be someday.” Growing up in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Page visualized himself as a boy in imaginary games, freed from the discomfort of how other people saw him: as a girl. After the haircut, strangers finally started perceiving him the way he saw himself, and it felt both right and exciting. The joy was short-lived. Months later, Page got his first break, landing a part as a daughter in a Canadian mining family in the TV movie Pit Pony.…

When our contributing workspace editor Riya Patel explored how a number of tech giants were planning their office comebacks (see page 20), she found that many of their employees weren’t planning to come back at all – or at least not full-time, anyway. Already at the start of the pandemic, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told his employees that around half of them could anticipate working from home permanently over the coming five to ten years. Google expects over half of its 140,000 employees to work part-time in the office, and another one-fifth to work from home permanently, a sentiment solidified with a tweet from CEO Sundar Pichai: ‘The future of work at Google is flexibility.’ This phenomenon doesn’t just apply to the tech sector, either. Kate Lister, president of Global Workplace…

타고난 선구자였던 가브리엘 샤넬. 그녀가 창조한 샤넬이란 이름의 거대 제국의 출발점을거슬러 올라가면 ‘여성 해방’이라는 슬로건과 마주하게 된다. 1955년 2월에 탄생한 ‘2.55’백이 그 대표적인 예다. 당시 여자들은 늘 가방을 손에 들고 다녔다. 이를 불편하게 여긴가브리엘은 가방에 체인을 달고 ‘어깨에 메는 최초의 디자인’을 탄생시킨다. 여기에서 그치지 않고일곱 개의 포켓으로 공간을 나눠 물건을 쉽게 찾을 수 있도록 실용성을 극도로 높였다. 여자들의양 손에 자유를 선사한 2.55 백은 전 세계적인 센세이션을 일으켰으며 현재까지 스테디셀러로 이어질 만큼 그 인기가 여전하다. 혁신적인 디자인과 더불어 샤넬을 대표하는 핵심 철학을 꼽자면 단연 ‘우아함과 실용성’ 아닐까. 옛것을 새롭게, 하지만 고유의 감성은 지킨 채 명민하게 진화해온 샤넬. 버지니 비아르 역시 창립자의 정신을 계승하며 거대 제국을 성공적으로 진두지휘 중이다. 그 결과물 중 하나가 바로 최근에선보인 ‘샤넬 22’…

Years ago, I was in Amsterdam with one of my friends, Jen, when I tripped and fell for absolutely no reason. I lay on the ground for a moment in shock. I wasn’t hurt or anything, I was just surprised. My shoes were tied, the pavement was smooth, and I hadn’t been wildly weaving or jumping around. And yes, I was a little high (Amsterdam), but not in a way that would have led to forgetting how to walk. I looked up from the ground and said, “Jen! Gah! What if, someday, I become one of those people who just falls for no reason?” We found this idea so outrageous that we laughed and laughed. Because to me, lying there, barely into my early 30s, falling for no reason was…

DIED Shonka Dukureh BY BAZ LUHRMANN Shonka Dukureh was authentically spiritual. Her inner life was large—you could see it through her actions and hear it in her voice. She played the singer Big Mama Thornton in my recent film Elvis, and she was a beloved gospel singer and teacher in Nashville. When we first encountered Shonka, she was singing, and you could hear how her voice lifted people up. That was really important to the film because Elvis was an intensely spiritual person himself and I knew I would need great performers to shine a light on the seminal Black artists who influenced him. Shonka really brought Big Mama Thornton to life with tremendous passion and confidence, and I’m grateful she was able to share her gift with a wider audience. Shonka was…

THE NEW ATHLETICWEAR Seven Strong (pictured here) and his Supreme-sponsored compatriots know better than anyone that skatewear has gone luxury. And now luxury—beefy Fendi Men’s cashmere sweat suits included—is right at home at the skate park, gym, and running trail (pullover, $4,400; pants, $5,200). CONCEPTUAL CLOGS Kiko Kostadinov’s bouncy, rubber-soled clogs set a new standard in fashionably ugly footwear (price upon request). THE SMARTEST WATCH The Garmin Venu 2 Plus has all the biometric capabilities of your favorite running watch, including a stress tracker, plus the ability to make phone calls and switch on smart home devices ($450). ROCKY SET Vancouver’s Reigning Champ handcrafts sweats in Canada with the same meticulous detail you’d normally find in a finely tailored suit (hoodie, $175; sweatpants, $160). HAUTE GYM BAG Even Saint Laurent’s skinny-suited Parisian club rats need to hit the gym…

As a kid, Adam Sachs, cofounder and CEO of Vicarious Surgical, watched the 1966 science-fiction movie Fantastic Voyage and was enamored of the premise of microscopic surgeons who performed surgery inside a scientist’s brain. “Humans are the wrong size to operate on humans,” he says. “We’re not going to shrink humans down, but we can create avatars of them. We can create little miniature robotic versions.” That’s just what he and his Vicarious Surgical cofounders—Sammy Khalifa, the company’s chief technology Officer, and Dr. Barry Greene, its chief medical Officer—have spent the past decade doing. They have developed an itty-bitty robot paired with a VR headset for abdominal surgeries that they hope to bring to market in 2023. Its two arms and camera are designed to enter the patient’s belly through an…

Park Jiyoun (Park): This project is the renovation of a 120-year-old machiya in Kyoto. Machiya is a traditional Japanese wooden house with a narrow façade and long side volume, a kind of townhouse that shares walls with its neighbouring houses. It must have undergone many renovations over a long period. What was the condition of the buildings at the time? Tada Masaharu (Tada): Originally there was a room in the front, but, after setting back, the outdoor area was changed to a parking lot and the interior section was turned into a western-facing room. The kitchen used to be a dirt floor, but with the addition of floors, modern kitchen equipment has also been introduced. There must have been a stairwell in the upper part of the kitchen for ventilation,…

Designing an architectural space is an enterprise that conceives of environmental forms which give fitting expression to emotional experiences and personal actions. One thing is certain: architecture, like other creative forms, only touches those that are open to exploring the impressions and potential offered by the construction of space. As Le Corbusier put it, space is within us, and the architectural work which makes this evident ‘reveals itself to those whom it may concern – which means: to those who deserve it [...] Then a boundless depth opens up, effaces walls, drives away contingent presences and accomplishes the miracle of inexpressible space’. It is within these conditions that one must interpret the role warranted by the architect in creating work that strives towards contemplation, silence, meditation and prayer, in which…

These are stories of justice gone wrong. Albert Burrell UNION COUNTY, LA 13 YEARS IN PRISON, ALL ON DEATH ROW; EXONERATED IN 2001 Burrell, now 66, came within 17 days of his scheduled execution in Louisiana before his attorneys won a stay in 1996. His conviction for first-degree murder in a double homicide was overturned. He was granted a new trial after a judge ruled that prosecutors had misled the jury and failed to turn over exculpatory evidence. After the state concluded that no credible evidence linked Burrell to the murders, he was released. Derrick Jamison SENTENCED IN HAMILTON COUNTY, OH 20 YEARS IN PRISON, ALL ON DEATH ROW; EXONERATED IN 2005 Derrick Jamison was arrested for the 1984 robbery and murder of a Cincinnati bartender. He was convicted based on false testimony from one of the real…

A Land Lacking in Context The site in Dongcheon-dong sits on a hill with a gentle slope and was developed as a collective housing area through a civil engineering project. When I first visited this place, the engineering works were already in progress. In a chaotic atmosphere, through various heavy machinery comes and goes, I could see the shape of the site had just been revealed. The principles we hold towards land throughout our design practice can be more vexing when on ground and when contemplating a newly developed housing complex. Fortunately, the construction of other housing areas in Dongcheon-dong had already been completed, and so it was possible to predict how the neighbourhood we were going to build would change or evolve after one year. Nevertheless, completing a building in…

IN A SURPRISE ANNOUNCEMENT DURING THE opening days of COP26—the U.N. climate summit taking place in Glasgow over the first two weeks of November—India, the world’s third largest emitter of greenhouse gases, pledged to reach net-zero emissions by 2070. The announcement means that all five of the world’s largest emitters now have a net-zero target—a date by which they intend to add no more carbon dioxide or other greenhouse gases to the atmosphere than they take out. Climate scientists say the world needs to cut human-caused CO₂ emissions by 45% from 2010 levels by 2030, and reach net zero around 2050, lest global warming rise more than 1.5°C above preindustrial levels. That’s the point at which climate-change impacts become much worse for much of the world; avoiding it was the aim…

Architect DIA Architecture (Chung Hyuna) Design team Shin Secheol Location 43, Dosan-daero 37-gil, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, Korea Programme neighbourhood living facility Site area 195.8m2 Building area 111.3m2 Gross floor area 394.74m2 Building scope B1, 4F Parking 3 Height 13.35m Building to land ratio 56.84% Floor area ratio 181.61% Structure RC Exterior finishing glass block, tile, exposed concrete Interior finishing paint Structural engineer THEKUJO Co. Construction DASAN Constructing Engineering Mechanical engineer JUNGIN MEC Electrical engineer SUNGJI ENC Design period July – Dec. 2018 Construction period Mar. – Dec. 2019 Client Sheen’s Design House Aldo Rossi argued that the type of architecture derived by analogy within the context of the city could create a new city. The context of the city may also appear in the materiality or programme of architecture, but fundamentally, the physical characteristics of the permanent relationship between architecture and the city is in the form of architecture. The urban context may…

Architect aoa architects (Suh Jaewon, Lee Euihaing) Design team Sunwoo Uk Location 14-12, Wausan-ro 29-gil, Mapo-gu, Seoul, Korea Programme neighbourhood living facility Site area 255.9m2 Building area 128.51m2 Gross floor area 597.14m2 Building scope B1, 5F Parking 4 Height 16.49m Building to land ratio 50.21% Floor area ratio 188.41% Structure RC Exterior finishing brick, UHPC concrete panel Interior finishing exposed concrete, stucco (terracotta granules) Structure engineer Eden Structural Consultant Inc. Construction jium CM Corporation Mechanical and electrical engineer Daedo Engineering Landscape architect Botanical Studio SAM Design period May – Oct. 2020 Construction period Oct. 2020 – Sep. 2021 ‘L’existence Précède L’essence’ It has been a while since monotonous minimalism reigned supreme in Korean architecture or design. One stands in awe, drawing up close to the sheer finish of architectural projects, while a sense of unease establishes itself through close observation, probably due to feeling of aversion at such an inherent and servile essentialism and dogmatic approach, and the notion that a purer metaphysical idea exists. If one cannot accept things as they…

Architect poly.m.ur (Kim Homin) Design team Lim Hyunju, Lee Jaeman Location 32, Dosan-daero 49-gil, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, Korea Programme neighbourhood living facility Site area 184m2 Building area 105m2 Gross floor area 455m2 Building scope B1, 5F Parking 3 Height 20m Building to land ratio 58% Floor area ratio 199% Structure RC Exterior finishing exposed concrete (pine board) Interior finishing water paint on plasterboard Structural engineer THEKUJO Construction poly.m.ur Machanical and electrical engineer Jinwon Engineering & Consulting Design period July 2017 - Dec. 2019 Construction period Jan. 2020 - May 2021 Construction budget 1.15 million USD Client poly.m.ur With the notion that ‘architecture is ultimately about establishing order’ in mind, ShinsaBlues is the kind of project that privileges pattern, in the envelope that integrates structure and space, in function and ornament, in circulation and skin, part and whole. Since the arrival of the Gothic Cathedral, which was made of stone capable of withstanding compressive force, ornamentation, circulation, and spatial configuration could be naturally integrated into one overall structural system. On the other hand, modern architecture…

I AM AN ARCHITECT ʻI am an Architectʼ was planned to meet young architects who seek their own architecture in a variety of materials and methods. What do they like, explore, and worry about? SPACE is going to discover individual characteristics of them rather than group them into a single category. The relay interview continues when the architect who participated in the conversation calls another architect in the next turn. We Are Working on a Building of Our Own Design Kim Yeram: You have settled down in Sinsa-dong. Kim Jinhyu: Most of my family lives nearby, so naturally I came to Sinsadong and to this neighbourhood. Kim Yeram: You stay in a building you designed yourself, Quad (2019). Was this originally planned as a residential space? Nam Hojin: Right. The fifth floor, where we work, was…

Here’s the short version of our review of the new Chevrolet Corvette Z06: It’s the best American sports car ever made. How can we say this so definitively? What about the Ford GT? What about the Dodge Viper ACR? You know we’ve driven, tested, and tracked them, and they’re both great cars. And each is a Le Mans winner in its own right (though Corvette Racing has more wins than the two of them combined). The 2023 Z06 is better. As much as there is to talk about with the C8 Z06, we must begin with the sacrilegious dual-overhead-cam, flat-plane-crank V-8 engine. No, it doesn’t burble like a cross-plane-crank V-8, because it isn’t one. It does, however, make more naturally aspirated power than any production V-8 in history. We’re talking 670 American…

With virtual life increasingly indistinguishable from everyday reality, it makes sense: Just as the price of dog-inspired cryptocurrencies Dogecoin and Shiba Inu coin have exploded, so has demand for—what else?—living, breathing shiba inus. While Dogecoin, the cryptocurrency created from a meme back in 2013 using the image of a shiba inu, enjoyed a burst of popularity this summer, it was recently overtaken in market value by the slightly less creatively named Shiba Inu coin. In classic crypto style, it sounds like a joke but is immensely valuable, with investors pushing up its price almost 800% in the past month, even though a coin still costs a tiny fraction of a cent. At the same time, shiba inu breeders across the U.S. say they’re seeing more business than ever since cryptocurrency trading brought…

The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that one in 160 children has an autism spectrum disorder (ASD), a figure that’s expected to rise. ‘Based on epidemiological studies conducted over the past 50 years,’ writes the WHO, ‘the prevalence of ASD appears to be increasing globally. There are many possible explanations for this apparent increase, including improved awareness, expansion of diagnostic criteria, better diagnostic tools and improved reporting.’ That said, the why is irrelevant. What’s important is that designers factor neurodiversity into their buildings to make them more inclusive. Judging by a series of recent projects, the healthcare industry seems to be a good place to start. Take, for example, a new joint facility from the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC). Designed by Perkins+Will in collaboration with McMillan Pazdan Smith Architecture,…

송재욱 건축사사무소 송곳 이세나 삼우종합건축사사무소 임세라 네리&후 디자인 앤드 리서치 오피스 최유미 매스스터디스 Song Jaewook songgot Lee Sena Samoo Architects & Engineers Lim Sera Neri&Hu Design and Research Office Choi Yoomi MASS STUDIES 송재욱은 졸업 후 에스케이엠 건축사사무소를 약 3년 다닌 뒤, 사무소효자동에 근무했다. 현재는 독립해 건축사사무소 송곳을 1년 넘게 운영 중이다. Song Jaewook, after completing his studies, worked for about three years at SKM Architects and another three years at Samuso Hyojadong. Currently Song is an independent architect managing songgot. 이세나는 4학년을 마치고 휴학했다가 대학교 5학년 재학 중 소규모 아틀리에의 인턴으로 근무한 후 대학원에 진학했다. 현재는 삼우종합건축사사무소에 6년 정도 다니고 있다. Lee Sena, upon completing fourth-year of undergraduate study, applied to a graduate school. During her fifth-year semester, Lee took on an internship at a small-scale atelier. Since that formative time, Lee spent the…

Home EV chargers are fairly simple things, or at least they used to be. Wired directly into a home’s electrical system, at a baseline they provide 240-volt power through a specialized plug to recharge an electric vehicle. Lately, though, they’ve become a lot smarter, and Ford’s new Charge Station Pro can not only charge a vehicle but also allow it to power a house. In a stroke of genius, Ford added an option called Pro Power Onboard to the 2021 F-150. A built-in inverter puts out 2.0, 2.4, or 7.2 kW through one 240-volt outlet and either two or four 120-volt outlets, depending on spec. The inverter is powered by either running the engine or, on hybrid models, drawing off the battery. The brilliance of this feature was on full display…

IN THE DARK DAYS AFTER 9/11, DIRE PRONOUNCEments about our nation’s new cultural identity rained down like the acrid particles floating over lower Manhattan. It would be the end of irony. The end of comedy. Our sense of innocence, particularly for Gen X and millennials, who largely had known lives of peace and security, was gone. Hello fear. RIP fun. Yet six months later, The Bachelor debuted on ABC. Shortly after came American Idol. Then Joe Millionaire, a preposterous real-life acid test to shame gold-digging women. (The show garnered 35 million viewers for its finale.) Cynicism didn’t end; it took steroids. Nowhere was that more manifest than in an obsession with celebrity that would come to define the decade. I was the young editor in chief of Us Weekly from 2002…

Pinot Meunier accounts for one-third of the vineyard area in Champagne, yet it enjoys a far lower profile than the other Champagne varieties Chardonnay and Pinot Noir, and is rarely planted outside the region. But a new generation of Champagne producers is singing the praises of Meunier – so named because the leaves of the vine appear to have been sprinkled with flour (Meunier means ‘miller’ in French). Part of its appeal became very evident this year when frost swept through Champagne on the nights of 6-7 April: Chardonnay suffered, while Meunier, which had not yet budded out, did not. The growing season is also shorter at both ends than Pinot Noir. Blanc de noirs by definition, Meunier Champagnes lack the vinous nature of many blanc de noirs; they are…

AFTER ONE OF THE ROCKIEST TRANSITIONS IN U.S. history, Joe Biden’s term has gotten off to a brisk start. In his first 50 days, the President has muscled a massive relief bill through Congress, sending stimulus checks to millions of Americans and easing housing costs, student loans and health-insurance premiums. His team of government veterans has also executed a series of less visible but consequential moves, from increasing vaccine production to approving loans for multitudes of struggling small businesses. Now Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris are traveling the country, hoping to capitalize on the popularity of the plan. Biden has a 60% approval rating, according to a poll released March 5 by the AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, compared with about 41% for Donald Trump around this time in…

THE ARAB SPRING BEGAN IN TUNISIA, where 28 days of protests ended 24 years of a dictator’s rule. The next day, Jan. 15, 2011, students in Yemen called for demonstrations against the strongman there. A dictator fell in Egypt, then in Libya. A change of season appeared to be bringing democracy to an arid stretch of the planet where it had never quite blossomed. It proved a false spring. Today Egypt has a different dictator, and Yemen, Libya and Syria have wars. But read on. The passion for change—for dignity—lives on in the generation that led the way into the streets a decade ago. LARA SABRA, 22, LEBANON Even before the votes had been counted, the makeshift campaign headquarters of the Secular Club near the American University of Beirut (AUB) rang with chants…

I HAVE ONE SIBLING, A BROTHER NAMED DONNY. Because he’s seven years older, our childhood worlds rarely overlapped. When he was a high school senior, preoccupied with girls and Guns N’ Roses, I was in the fourth grade, building Lego pirate ships and mastering Super Mario Bros. 2. I was the good student; I liked school and got mostly A’s. Donny was the music guy, the fashion guy, the car guy. He drove an orange ’74 MG. The one time he helped me with homework, I was sixteen and reading The Great Gatsby. My American Lit teacher had assigned us a short paper on a Jazz Age–related topic of our choosing. The topic Donny suggested: the martini. You might say I was Donny’s student. He taught me to drive stick. Made me…

Architect stpmj (Lee Seungteak, Lim Mijung) Design team Lee Seungteak, Lim Mijung, Han Seungyeon Location 1, Manyang-ro 1-gil, Dongjak-gu, Seoul, Korea Programme neighbourhood living facility Site area 66m2 Building area 34.9m2 Gross floor area 113.5m2 Building scope 4F Height 10m Building to land ratio 56% Floor area ratio 182% Structure masonry, RC Exterior finishing stone tile, hair-lined alumium panel Interior finishing plywood, tile, paint Structural engineer Hangil Structure Engineering Construction Team HitchHiker Architects Design period Jan. – May 2020 Construction period June – Oct. 2020 Client PRNT edited by Kim Jeoungeun photographed by Bae Jihun (unless otherwise indicated) materials provided by stpmj In the last decade, redevelopment has supplied Sangdo-dong with approximately 10,000-unit apartment complexes. On the inside of a district surrounded by Sangdo The Sharp, Sangdo Doosan We’ve, Sangdo Nobility, Sangdo Lotte Castle exists a seemingly isolated neighbourhood of residential villas in various states of decline. The villa neighbourhood, excluded from…

It’s a warm night in mid-October, and I’m winding my way up to the University of Virginia’s McCormick Observatory on a quest to solve an abiding mystery: Why are Earthlings so dang obsessed with Mars? The observatory’s hilltop dome is open, etching a glowing amber crescent into the autumn darkness. Inside stands a telescope that will help me see Mars as it appeared to observers more than a century ago, when eager astronomers used this instrument in 1877 to confirm the discovery of the two tiny Martian moons, Phobos and Deimos. Tonight UVA astronomer Ed Murphy has made a special trip up to the observatory, which is closed to the public because of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The whirling dance of orbital dynamics has put Mars at its biggest and brightest in…