Today I went to a very unusual exhibition — one that can easily be described as “widely known in narrow circles.” Unusual because it’s about an architectural firm, yet features almost no architecture. It’s about Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) — the legendary architecture practice behind skyscrapers, airports, and half of corporate America in the…
The Copper📍 626 1st Ave is a pair of residential skyscrapers in Manhattan, New York, located near the United Nations Headquarters. The architecture of the complex is elegant yet dynamic. Floor-to-ceiling glass and copper shimmering in the sunlight give the building its name, The Copper. The exterior features a patina — the greenish layer that…
Walking along the Hudson, it’s impossible not to notice this unusual building. VIA 57 West is one of the most extravagant structures in New York City. It’s easy to spot in photos — it looks like a skyscraper bent into the shape of a pyramid. VIA 57 West was designed by Danish architect Bjarke Ingels…
Not long ago, we wrote about a new high-tech skyscraper in the US — the JPMorgan Chase Tower — which became the most expensive building in the world built without direct government funding. The tower didn’t just add another silhouette to the New York skyline — it fundamentally changed how the city looks at night,…
On Thursday, November 20, 2025, in the very heart of New York’s gallery scene — Chelsea — the exhibition “Desires of the Boulders” opened, presented by a duo of two strikingly distinctive artists. About the artists Emil Silberman is a New York–based sculptor working in contemporary plastics, installation, and site-specific art. He is also the…
Remember I wrote about the incredible gallery Salon 94, the one that showed Urs Fischer’s furniture? It turns out Salon 94’s founder — Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn — was previously part of the young art consortium LGDR, founded in 2021. History Each letter in LGDR stood for a founder’s last name, and the idea behind the…
“Architecture is the frame of life,” the museum’s architect Frank Lloyd Wright once said. The Guggenheim is one of the oldest and most visited collections of modern art in the world, and also one of the most beautiful museums in the United States. Criticism from the Public But it wasn’t always admired. For many years…
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery is a contemporary art gallery at Columbia University in New York City. It frequently exhibits works by Columbia students and faculty. The gallery is worth visiting for those interested in experimental academic art. History The gallery was founded in 1986 by Miriam and Ira D. Wallach. It…
The Greenwich Street Project is a truly intriguing building, often described by critics as an “intellectual loft.” It represents a rare blend of historical heritage and cutting-edge technology, where past and future are literally fused within a single façade. From Warehouse to Modern Loft The project consists of an abandoned six-story warehouse that underwent extensive…
The Judd Foundation is the home and museum of the legendary artist Donald Judd, one of the founders of minimalism. Here, every object is placed exactly as the artist intended. History Donald Judd (1928–1994) was an American artist and theorist whose ideas about “specific objects” revolutionized the concept of sculpture. The artist argued that a…
