MMFW18: Prada
THE Prada fall 2018 show for Milan menswear was all about keeping modern-day elegance but with an industrial, utilitarian take. For the first time, Prada recruited the assistance of four creatives from the desi...
From the archive – Glass talks to Cecil Balmond one of the world’s leading designers
From the Glass archive
Designing “the next” – Cecil Balmond, one of the world’s leading designers, talks to Glass about the power of mathematics, the negotiations of expression and growing forms
“The harm...
Glass travels to the northwest coast of Portugal and explores Porto and Viana
ON the northwest coast of Portugal, on the right bank of the Douro River lies the city of Porto. Although it’s the second largest city in the country, I sense there’s a slight rivalry between its inhabitants an...
Road trip – Portugal
My journey exploring northern Portugal started with a short flight from London to Porto, picking up a local car from the airport and quickly adjusting to driving on the opposite side of the road – a d...
In pursuit of the higher – Mountains beyond Mountains
Jun Jiang the curator behind China’s architectural pavilion at the Venice Biennale speaks to Glass about the philosophies behind his national exhibit
China have this year based their pavilion Mountains b...
Out of the status quo and into the real world
“The exhibition is about putting the physical artefacts we’ve collected and present them in raw state‚” Keigo Kobayashi and Norihito Nakatani talk to Glass about their pavilion at this year’s Architecture Bie...
Ai Weiwei’s Forever Bicycles installed at Venice Architecture Biennale
For the last week Venice has been flooded with global architects, designers and artists as its’ International Architecture Biennale – curated by Rem Koolhaas – has opened up for its 14th year. As part of the cr...
Without qualities – the space of Rem Koolhaas
When I proposed to talk about space instead of architecture, Rem Koolhaas appeared dubious – he said, “It’s difficult. Space has been the most important mystification of the Modern Movement. It is a colossal al...