The Eighties are also remembered for the obsession many had with fitness and bodybuilding, at those times; and indeed the guy carrying his Osborne 1 “portable” microcomputer in this advertisement must ...

“More sun? Less sun? What do you want? More water? Less water? Why don’t you speak? Answer me now! (1) My grandma loved plants. She kept dozens of them with their terracotta vases precisely aligned on ...

One of Le Corbusier’s most celebrated architectural projects and a UNESCO World Heritage site, the Unité d’Habitation in Marseille—also known as Cité Radieuse—is a landmark residential building ...

The Heydar Aliyev Center (Azerbaijani: Heydər Əliyev Mərkəzi) is an important cultural center in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan. It is housed in an iconic building designed by Zaha Hadid Architects ...

These days, Italy is not particularly renowned for its consumer electronics products; yet, there was a time, in the ’60s, when an Italian company was reputed to be the “European response” to American ...

When Steve Jobs presented the first iPhone at San Francisco’s Moscone Center on January 9, 2007, many of Apple’s competitors were taken aback. Until then, RIMS’ BlackBerry devices dominated the ...

The oldest public museums opened in Italy during the Renaissance. The Capitoline Museum and the Vatican Museums are perhaps the first institutions that we could call “museums”, although they were not ...

A necklace by Japanese jewelry designer Eriko Unno, made by skilfully intertwining audio cassette magnetic tape and gold leaf. Photo © E. Unno Design: recycling vs ...

Kiasma is a museum in Helsinki, Finland, dedicated to Finnish and international modern and contemporary art. Opened in 1998, the museum is housed in an iconic, curvilinear building designed by ...

In 1988, when the West Berlin Senate announced a competition for the “Extension of the Berlin Museum with a Jewish Museum Department”, the intention was to expand the old museum that was dedicated to ...

Winner of the Golden Lion for the best national participation at the 57th Venice Biennale of Art, the installation on view in the Pavilion of Germany has been created by artist Anne Imhof (b, 1978) ...

The smell of soil, ferns, and wood. Entering the Austrian Pavilion at the EXPO is like being carried at a different latitude. Despite the crowd, the sensation is like walking around in an alpine ...