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At its Livery Banquet on 14 March the Company of Chartered Architects awarded OMA's new Rothschild Bank headquarters with the New City Architecture Award for 2011. The award recognises a building which, in the opinion of the judges, makes the most significant contribution to the streetscape and skyscape of the City of London.The Sistine Chapel in the Vatican. It’s one of the triumphs of Renaissance painting. The chapel’s walls were frescoed by Raphael, Bernini, and Sandro Botticelli. And then, between 1508 and 1512, Michelangelo painted the chapel ceiling, covering some 12,000 square feet, decorating it with 300 figures from nine Book of Genesis scenes. Thanks in part to Villanova University, you can now take a virtual, panoramic tour of the Chapel .
A Virtual Tour of the Sistine Chapel | Open Culture
This savanna in Tanzania is typical of the kind of landscape that helped shape early human evolution. In the 1790s, artist Humphry Repton painted an idealized image of an English country garden, below, with a savannafied vista promising a safe human haven amid an otherwise foreboding forest landscape. Not long ago in Africa, I camped in what seemed like one of the perfect places on Earth, at the edge of a stand of trees overlooking a floodplain.
The Natural History of Art | Genetics | DISCOVER Magazine
The global Disability Barriers campaign, commissioned by UNWHO and The World Bank and designed by Fabrica wins the GOOD DESIGN Award from the Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and from The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies. Factory of Martyrs, the documentary coproduced by Fabrica and RSI Radiotelevisione Svizzera, is the special guest of the event "Immagini: inganno delle emozioni" (Images: emotions deception) that takes place on Thursday, March 29th at 9.00pm in Fondazione Benetton Studi Ricerche, in Treviso. From 4 to 13 April 2012 COLORS will be at the Design Museum in London with “Happiness and other survival techniques”, an exhibition inspired by the Survival Guides trilogy (Happiness, Shit and Transport).