Zaha Hadid’s MAXXI Museum in Rome
architectural videos* (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
MAXXI Museum,Rome.. by Zaha Hadid .. here more information.. and here .. another video .. official page see it at google maps
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Italy Arts Guide Exhibits from 20 November
Living in Italy (Free subscription) | yesterday
ANSA) - Rome, November 20 - The following is a city-by-city guide to some of Italy’s art exhibitions: BRESCIA - Museo di Santa Giulia: Inca, Origins and Mysteries of the Civilisation of Gold; 250 artefacts, December 4-June 27. CATANIA - Palazzo Valle: Alberto Burri and Lucio Fontana; until March 14. FERRARA - Palazzo dei Diamanti: Boldini In [...]
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Positivity: Pope tells artists beauty can be a path to God
BizzyBlog (Free subscription) | yesterday
From Vatican City: Pope Benedict met artists from around the world in the Sistine Chapel on Saturday and urged them to inject spirituality into their work, saying contemporary beauty was often “illusory and deceitful.” The Pope told the gathering of hundreds of painters, sculptors, architects, poets and directors, held beneath the vaulted ceiling of the chapel painted [...]
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Pope urges artists to embark on "quest for beauty"
Denver Post (Free subscription) | yesterday
Sitting before Michelangelo's "Last Judgment" in the Sistine Chapel, Pope Benedict XVI on Saturday called on an audience of contemporary artists to embark on "a quest for beauty."
- Benedict Woos Artists, Urging ‘Quest for Beauty’ - New York Times
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Pope meets 250 artists to renew friendship
MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Pope Benedict met artists from around the world in the Sistine Chapel and urged them to inject spirituality into their work, saying contemporary beauty was often "illusory and deceitful."
- Pope meets 250 artists to renew friendship - MSNBC.com
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When in Rome...
stair porn (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Maxxi, Rome's new museum of contemporary art designed by Zaha Hadid The New York Times
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Skateboarders take on the Supreme Court (benches)
Latest News (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
The elegant carved stone anti-car bomb benches outside Feilden & Mawson’s Supreme Court in Parliament Square are themselves protected by 6ft fences. It turns out a rogue skateboarder knocked a chunk out of one of them before the court was...
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New Rome arts and architecture center to open in early 2010
The Independent (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
The Maxxi Contemporary Arts Center, which was completed by London-based Zaha Hadid Architects last week, will open to the public after all collections have been moved in.
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Zaha Hadid: Complete Works, 1979-2009
Splendora Blog (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Taschen just released a beautiful book showcasing the work of Baghdad-bred, London-based architect Zaha Hadid, a rad (pun intended) woman who, several times over her thirty-year career, has achieved...
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Zaha Hadis’s MAXXI Museum in Rome, a 224 Million Dollars Investment
Freshome (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Zaha Hadid is known for her futuristic projects and for her numerous international competition awards. Her newest design is striking in terms of resources and scales. The National Museum of the XXI Century Arts, or the MAXXI Museum has recently been opened for the public in Rome, a city most know for its ancient values, [...] This is a post from the Freshome Magazine , who bring you the latest news...
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Architect creates crystal palace for Design Miami
The Independent (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
American archtect Greg Lynn has designed an installation out of carbon and 1.5 million crystals for the ongoing Swarovski Crystal Palace project that will go on show during the design fair in December.
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Monster Mash: Zaha Hadid's Maxxi building in Rome; Glassell will is upheld in Texas; Ashlee Simpson on Broadway
Culture Monster (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
-- Unveiling: Reviews are coming in for architect Zaha Hadid's National Museum of the XXI Century Arts in Rome, even though it is not quite finished. (Times Online) -- Legally binding: A Texas jury has upheld the final will of...
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To the MAXXI | Zaha Hadid’s Museum in Rome
Women's Lens (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Photos by Eljor Kerciku The new National Museum of the XXI Century Arts (MAXXI) in Rome. It may take the nation that invented Fellini to truly embrace Zaha Hadid, the whirlwind architect who is by turns sugar and spitfire. Italians stress the “z” in “Zaha” as they do in “czarina,” and treated her like one during last weekend’s opening festivities for the National...
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First Works at the AA
varnelis.net - network culture (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Unfortunately I won’t have a chance to see this show, but I had the chance to contribute a brief piece on Archizoom’s “Structure for Leisure in Prato–Permanent Luna Park in a Shopping Centre” to the catalogue for First Works: Emerging Architectural Experimentation of the 1960s and 1970s , now on display the AA. The show explores the first projects that architects of that...