Journal

The Last Bang Bang Men of Chongqing

For centuries the Bang Bang men have transported the weight of Chongqing on their shoulders, today they face extinction as numbers dwindle from the city rapidly modernizes around them. Danish photo...

Inside Ricardo Bofill’s Muse and Fortress Cement Factory

Born on December 5, 1939, today marks his 80th birthday and an opportunity to reflect on a legacy that includes radical ideas, an architectural philosophy geared toward community, and utopian inten...

Cindy Gallop On Ten Years of MakeLoveNotPorn

An in-depth interview with former Advertising Woman of the Year Cindy Gallop on the tenth anniversary for MakeLoveNotPorn, an online platform confronting hardcore porn and creating a safe space for...

Ushering Modernism Into A 15th-Century Italian Home

Italian collective Archiplan has been innovators of renovating historic structures in their homeland, but these particular commissions is a masterpiece that conveys the legacy of the Renaissance Go...

How Leta Sobierajski and Wade Jeffree Tell Scented Tales

When it comes to fragrances, they have to please both the nose and eyes. Creative duo Leta Sobierajski and Wade Jeffree have established themselves as a design team capable of transporting fragranc...

Street Contemporary

Recording and compressing mystical frozen moments to indicate the strangeness of time whilst also portraying metropolis spreads as deserted ghost towns, Vishal Marapon delicately captures the city ...

A Photographic Homage To The Female Body

The female figure is the best metaphor to represent the feelings, fragility, and contradictions that Cristina Coral often recognizes in herself. The Italian photographer has a soothing aesthetic th...

A Real or Rendered Berlin Hallway?

The light as it rebounds off the green tiles, the newspaper glistening as it balances from the mailbox, the tire marks left on the ground by a bicycle, everything about this ordinary hallway has be...

The Swedish Chef Bringing Color To New York

To coincide with the American release of Story on a Plate, we put the spotlight on Emma Bengtsson, a chef that grew up in a quaint Scandinavian fishing village but has gone on to leave a prominent ...

The Art Of Mediterranean Modernism Through The Guise Of Andrew Trotter

From starting a boutique store nearly a decade ago to founding Openhouse Magazine, Andrew Trotter reflects on his journey so far and discusses his first architectural commission Masseria Moroseta.