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@disney’s new headquarters have arrived in ...

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Dec 5

@disney’s new headquarters have arrived in Hudson Square in Manhattan! Designed by @skidmoreowingsmerrill, this 1.2-million-square-foot complex honors its neighborhood’s industrial roots with a green terra cotta façade and careful massing that integrates into the fabric of the city.
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"Three decades ago, when Times Square was being renovated, critics complained that the heart of sordidness had been stripped of authenticity and slathered in a layer of cloying cuteness — that it had been, in a word, Disneyfied. These days, in Hudson Square, Disney has been New Yorkified."
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Thanks to Justin Davidson for this insightful article about Disney's new headquarters in @curbed. Link in bio 🔗
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📸 @daveburk

Calida Rawles (@calidagarciarawles) is a Los ...

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Dec 4

Calida Rawles (@calidagarciarawles) is a Los Angeles-based artist celebrated for her hyperrealistic paintings that explore the intersection of race, identity, and the symbolism of water.
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Rawles uses water as both a literal and metaphorical space—exploring themes of freedom, resilience, and identity. Her work highlights Black bodies in submerged, dreamlike settings and transforms water into a metaphor for freedom, healing, and transcendence.
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Her solo show "Away with the Tides," on view at the Pérez Art Museum Miami through February 2, 2025, continues this exploration and delves into how water holds both a physical and spiritual significance. The exhibition focuses on the experiences of Black people in Overtown, a Miami neighborhood that went from a thriving cultural and commercial hub for Black people to a community dismantled by gentrification, systemic racism, and mass displacement. Rawles's paintings depict residents of the Overtown community—from young children to senior citizens. The show also includes photographs of her subjects in the waters of historic Virginia Key Beach, which was once racially segregated. By photographing Black subjects in the ocean, Rawles probes the Atlantic’s history as the site of the supremely exploitative transatlantic slave trade.
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Images courtesy of the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Seoul, and London.
📸 @martenelder

Calida Rawles (@calidagarciarawles) is a Los ...

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Dec 4

Calida Rawles (@calidagarciarawles) is a Los Angeles-based artist celebrated for her hyperrealistic paintings that explore the intersection of race, identity, and the symbolism of water.
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Rawles uses water as both a literal and metaphorical space—exploring themes of freedom, resilience, and identity. Her work highlights Black bodies in submerged, dreamlike settings and transforms water into a metaphor for freedom, healing, and transcendence.
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Her solo show "Away with the Tides," on view at the Pérez Art Museum Miami through February 2, 2025, continues this exploration and delves into how water holds both a physical and spiritual significance. The exhibition focuses on the experiences of Black people in Overtown, a Miami neighborhood that went from a thriving cultural and commercial hub for Black people to a community dismantled by gentrification, systemic racism, and mass displacement. Rawles's paintings depict residents of the Overtown community—from young children to senior citizens. The show also includes photographs of her subjects in the waters of historic Virginia Key Beach, which was once racially segregated. By photographing Black subjects in the ocean, Rawles probes the Atlantic’s history as the site of the supremely exploitative transatlantic slave trade.
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Images courtesy of the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Seoul, and London.
📸 @martenelder

The Kinder Land Bridge and Cyvia and Melvyn Wolff ...

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Dec 4

The Kinder Land Bridge and Cyvia and Melvyn Wolff Prairie at Memorial Park, designed by @nelsonbyrdwoltz, has been named @dezeen's 2024 Infrastructure and Transport Project of the Year! 🌟
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Spanning Memorial Drive, a six-lane highway that was built in the 1950s and that bisected Memorial Park, the project reconnects the park’s north and south sides while creating nearly 100 acres of dynamic green space. The land bridge enhances recreational opportunities and provides a safe, scenic crossing for humans and animals alike. Featuring restored native prairie and savannah ecosystems, along with a network of multi-use trails, the bridge invites parkgoers to experience nature while enjoying striking views of Houston’s skyline.
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This transformative project is a testament to how design can heal and restore landscapes disrupted by infrastructure.
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📸 @nickhubbard_

Wednesday Woman: Alison Smithson
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Nov 28

Wednesday Woman: Alison Smithson
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Alison Smithson was a pioneering British architect who reshaped the mid-20th-century architectural landscape.
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Born in Sheffield, England in 1928, she studied architecture at Durham University, where she met her future husband and creative partner, Peter Smithson. The pair married in 1949 and became leading figures of the New Brutalism movement in England, which emphasized raw materiality, functionality, and social responsibility in architecture. They gained international recognition in 1952 with their competition entry for the Hunstanton Secondary Modern School, a starkly elegant building made of steel and glass. This project, often considered the first manifestation of New Brutalism, expressed the architects’ desire to reveal the essentials of the structure and the materials used.
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Smithson’s design philosophy extended to urban planning and emphasized community-centered spaces. This vision was exemplified in the Robin Hood Gardens social housing complex in East London (1972), which sought to address urban housing crises with innovative layouts and integrated green spaces.
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Beyond her architectural practice, Smithson was a prolific writer and thinker. Her essays and books, including “Without Rhetoric” and “Urban Structuring,” explored themes of modernity and human interaction with the built environment. Smithson’s legacy endures as a cornerstone of contemporary architectural discourse. Her work continues to influence urban living and architecture’s role in shaping human experience.

@post_company is featured in issue 16 of ...

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Nov 9

@post_company is featured in issue 16 of @thelocalproject, out today!
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Founding partners Ruben Caldwell, Jou-Yie Chou, and Leigh Salem discuss the ethos of their studio. The story showcases several of Post Company's recent projects, including @mollie_aspen, a boutique hotel that opened earlier this year in Colorado's chicest ski town. The design for the hotel blends Scandinavian and Japanese influences, inspired by Aspen's Bauhaus history.
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Read more about Post Company's work via the link in bio, or in the print issue, on newsstands now!
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✍️ @milthwaites
📸 @nicole_franzen
Styling by @rowelosangeles

Nestled in the Hudson Valley, ...

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Nov 7

Nestled in the Hudson Valley, @olanafredericchurch stands as a living testament to artist Frederic Church’s vision—a harmonious blend of architecture and landscape that captures the Hudson River School’s romantic ideal. Originally designed by Church in the late 19th century, Olana’s 250-acres unfold like a painted masterpiece, with winding paths, sweeping vistas, and a “Persian Gothic" stone house that Church lived and painted in. Church united the house and its setting as an “artistic environment, a total work of art.”
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This fall, new preservation efforts to bring Church’s intended views and carefully crafted landscape features back to life, to create an immersive experience that honors both his legacy and the natural beauty of the Hudson Valley. Over the years, Church's thoughtfully designed landscape had largely vanished due to neglect. Landscape architects @nelsonbyrdwoltz meticulously researched and restored Church's vision as part of a long-term master plan for the site. And this fall, the new Frederic Church Center for Art and Landscape, designed by @architecture.research.office, will welcome visitors. The Center's barn-like construction, with cross-laminated timber roof panels and glue-laminated beams and columns, relates to Church’s reforestation of the landscape and is the first New York State Parks building to use mass timber. Directly connecting the design of the new building through the use of mass timber to Church’s stewardship and vision for the land was one of the key goals of the building's design.
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Read more about Olana's restoration in the @nytimes via link in bio or in print. Thank you to James S. Russell for covering this story.
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📸 @nickhubbard_

Wednesday Woman: Loretta Dunkelman
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Nov 6

Wednesday Woman: Loretta Dunkelman
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Loretta Dunkelman is an American abstract artist whose minimal works are directly inspired by architecture and negative space. Her artistic practice, spanning several decades, is often informed by her experiences as a woman navigating the art world. Dunkelman’s work is rooted in themes of feminism, identity, and the exploration of the subconscious.
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Dunkelman began her career in the late 1960s, a period marked by social upheaval and the expanding feminist movement, which profoundly influenced her creative direction. She co-founded A.I.R. Gallery, the first women’s gallery in the United States, alongside other seminal feminist artists in 1972. She was active in the New York art scene throughout the ‘70s and ‘80s, participating in exhibitions that highlighted women artists and engaged with topics of gender equality and the representation of women in art.
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Dunkelman’s paintings and works on paper combine minimalist forms with subtle, rich, and often painterly surface layering. Her works often feature layered surfaces and intricate patterns, which invite viewers to explore the multiple perspectives embedded within each piece. Dunkelman’s current show, “Engrossed in the Shell (the Sky and the Circle)” at Polina Berlin Gallery in New York, marks her first solo exhibition in the city in nearly 40 years. This exhibition, running until December 7, showcases lush, abstract pieces that evoke memories and landscapes and highlight her unique artistic voice.

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