An exhibition at the Architecture and Design Museum riffs off of S, M, L, XL by Bruce Mau and Rem Koolhaas and explores the ways in which Los Angeles has nurtured design at all scales, from tiny to enormous. Cut Bend Fold Score, by Jonathan Louie, uses postcard sized models to reconfigure the forms found in S, M, L, XL. Come In! S,M,L,XLA is the Los Angeles Architecture and Design Museum's new exhibition of work by young, local design practitioners. Devoted to “spatial interventions reflecting on the inquiry of scale," the group show (through August 31) takes inspiration from
Entrepreneur Ivan Pun and New York-based architecture firm Leong Leong have transformed a transit shed into a light-filled space showcasing rotating art exhibitions, design-oriented retail, a restaurant, and other programming. The gritty, textured exterior of the shed contrasts with the light, minimal interior. To visit Yangon, Myanmar, now is to experience a city in flux. The downtown riverfront, once a bustling cosmopolitan dream, is home to streets lined with stately old colonial buildings, full of lost history and oozing with potential. Amidst the recent handover of power from the military to a civilian government, rustlings of revitalization projects
“Graceful” is not a word often used to describe the business of development, especially in China, where cities move forward at sometimes ruinous speeds.
“Every city is looking for a facelift”, states Wang Hui, a principal of Urbanus Architects, while talking about his firm’s OCT Art & Design Gallery in Shenzhen.