Tag Iwan Baan

12-12-2022

Inauguration of the Sydney Modern Project by the SANAA studio, new spaces at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Australia

On December 3, 2022, the new spaces of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, designed by SANAA, opened their doors to the public thanks to the Sydney Modern Project: a programme of extensions and renovations that transformed the Art Gallery into an art museum campus that creates close connections between art, architecture and landscape, without forgetting sustainability.

03-11-2022

Drawing the Landscape – Olafur Eliasson, Simone Fattal and Ernesto Neto in Qatar

The Qatar Museum presented the site-specific installations created by artists Olafur Eliasson, Simone Fattal and Ernesto Neto as part of the cultural programme to transform public places in Qatar into open-air museums, also in view of the upcoming Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup.

31-08-2022

An open air musuem for FIFA Qatar 2022

Qatar is preparing to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup by transforming its public spaces into open-air art museums with installations by international, regional and Qatari artists, including: Jeff Koons, Ugo Rondinone, KAWS, Rashid Johnson, Yayoi Kusama, Katharina Fritsch, Peter Fischli & David Weiss, Suki Seokyeong Kang, Shilpa Gupta, Shezad Dawood, Shua’a Ali, Faraj Daham, Shouq Al Mana and Salman Al Malek.

11-04-2022

ELASTICOFarm, residential and commercial building in Lido di Jesolo, Italy

"Le bâtiment descendant l'escalier", created by ELASTICOFarm in collaboration with the bplan studio, is not just a residential and commercial building, but an architecture that makes it possible to rediscover the potential and restore the identity of a place, even in a context devoid of urban quality.

16-12-2021

Onda Atlántica, a footbridge in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

Onda Arquitectura and architect and urban planner Javier Haddad built an infrastructure in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria with a light, undulating form responding to the particular features of the site, a true landmark in the city offering new public spaces.

19-08-2021

Tatiana Bilbao Estudio exhibition at Architekturzentrum Wien

The exhibition dedicated to Tatiana Bilbao Estudio was officially opened at Architekturzentrum Wien on 18 August. The Mexican firm’s most important projects are on shown in Austria for the first time, accompanied by a “cabinet of curiosities” containing samples of the raw materials used, working models and sketches. Visitors will thus be enabled to explore the design approach and architectural vision of Tatiana Bilbao and her firm.

14-06-2021

Serpentine Pavilion 2021 designed by Counterspace has opened its doors

On May 19, London’s Serpentine Galleries have reopened their spaces to the public and on June 11, the Serpentine Pavilion 2021 designed by Counterspace, the architectural studio directed by Sumayya Vally, opened its doors. It is the 20th pavilion of the famous gallery which, for this edition, extends out to the city with four installations placed in different neighbourhoods across London, recognisable as four fragments of the pavilion.

07-06-2021

Büro Ole Scheeren’s DUO in Singapore, a sustainable tower awarded the CTBUH Award

The DUO complex in Singapore, designed by Büro Ole Scheeren, has been presented with the Council of Tall Buildings’ Urban Habitat Award 2021 in the Single Site category. Every year, the prestigious award is given in recognition of a vertical urban habitat that fits well into its environmental and cultural surroundings, where public space is an important element of the project itself.

10-12-2020

BIG Bjarke Ingels Group Musée Atelier Audemars Piguet Le Brassus

Iwan Baan’s photographs beautifully represent Le Brassus’s Musée Atelier Audemars Piguet in the heart of the snow-covered Vallée de Joux. The museum opened in June 2020, built to plans by architect Bjarke Ingels and his studio, BIG, as an expansion on the historic premises of famous Swiss watchmaker Audemars Piguet.