It’s a kind of magic

Bonnie Friend
Avant Art, Feature
On a chilly evening, hopefully one of the last remaining few, I sat drinking copious amount of tea with Jonny Briggs. This is a man with whom conversation will never need alcoholic lubrication. To see the wor...

Desert Flower

Runa Mathiesen
Glass Design
  Fobe House is located 10 kilometres south of Marrakech, Morocco. Here, in the harsh desert landscape of flat planes, this white horizontal bungalow recalls the traditional Mediterranean whitewashe...

(Extra)ordinary Yung Ho Chang

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Feature, Glass Design
According to Philip Tinari, a leading curator of art and architecture in China, Yung Ho Chang can be referred to as “a pioneer of contemporary Chinese architecture“. This epithet refers to the historical sign...

Made in China

Renyi Ng
Feature, Glass Design
Stars do not illuminate Beijing’s sky at night. Instead there are the sparks of metal as builders weld steel to steel on the tops of high-rise towers. China’s construction workers are building rapidly. Yet mo...