THENJIWE NIKI NKOSI

Andrew Wallace ,of Andrew Wallace Architects + Interior Designers from Liverpool, went to Paris this summer and visited the LouisVuitton Fondation. 

1980, New York, USA. Lives and works in Johannesburg. Born into an activist family returned from the USA at the end of apartheid, this artist questions memory and through it the idea of heroes. These are the 16 portraits composing the series ‘Heroes’ That the artist developed after the death of Nelson Mandela in December 2001.

SAN PASQUALE STATION IN NAPLES BY BORIS PODRECCA

Andrew Wallace, from Andrew Wallace Architects + Interior Designers, an architect and interior designer from Liverpool went to an exhibition in Rome and saw different project like the San Pasquale metro station in Naples by the architect Boris Podrecca.

The project aims at connecting the two opposed worlds of Naples, namely the daytime surface and the underground, the latter being  unknown before the intervention. The project area was underwater until the 800s ; thusly, the new square and station are thematically linked to water.

NEW EUR CONGRESS CENTRE ROMA

Andrew Wallace, from Andrew Wallace Architects + Interior Designers, an architect and interior designer from Liverpool went to an exhibition in Rome.

The international competition for the Palazo Centro Congressi EUR was promoted by the City of Rome and won in 1998 by studio Fuksas. The project concept is articuladed in three images: the container, the Cloud and the blade of the adjacent hotal. The first is a steel and glass parallelepiped, some thirty metres in height, flanked by two public plazas that connect it to the neighbourhood.

MORIYAMA HOUSE BY RYUE NISHIZAMA

Andrew wallace at Andrew Wallace architects and interiors designers an architect from Liverpool. He visited the Maxi Museum in Rome and saw the Exhibition by Ryue Nishizama who design the Moriyama House in Tokyo.

The project was designed for a client who had made the unusual decision to stop working, and therefore wanted a portion of the house to be utilized as profit-making rental units. This initial brief led the architect to fragment the house into a number of distinct units separated by garden spaces, and this decomposition became the determining motivation of the design.

Zaha Hadid – Maxxi Museum (Rome)

Andrew Wallace, from Andrew Wallace Architects, an architect and interior designer from Liverpool went to Rome a few weeks ago and visit the MAXXI Museum designed by Zaha Hadid. The museum open his door in 2010, Zaha hadid said that the museum is  ‘not a object-container, but rather a campus for art’, also the place is a dynamic and interactive space. The main goal of the project was the flexibility of the place despite the clear and organized plan, the continuity of spaces makes it a suitable place for any kind of moving and temporary exhibition.

David Hockney

After celebrating his 80th birthday at the Tate Modern and before continuing on with the party at New York’s MET, the English artist is coming to the Pompidou centre.

He and his work are now at the pompidou center in Paris. Where Andew wallace at Andrew Wallace Architects + Interior Designers from Liverpool went to see this exhibition. 

This will be an important retrospective of his original work, coming nearly 20 years after his first Paris debut at the Pompidou. David Hockney is renowned for his many styles, explosive colours and large swimming pool canvases.

Renzo Piano – Auditorium Parco Della Musica

Andrew Wallace, from Andrew Wallace Architects, an architect and interior designer from Liverpool went to Rome and visited the Auditorium by Renzo Piano.

In 1993  the municipality of Rome launch competition by invitation for the building of a multifunctional centre for cultural and musical events among the Olympic Village, the Flaminio Sadium and the Patrioli district.  They are conceived as individual, huge musical instruments, like “sound boxes” inside the urban landscape. The tree halls are in a semi-circle, and their final position is due to the finding of a Roman villa in the site, wich has been included in the complex.

The Memorial To The Martyrs Of The Deportation

Andrew Wallace Architect + Interior Designers from Liverpool, was at the Memorial to the Martyrs of the Deportation on the Ile de la Cité in Paris was initiated by the Réseau du souvenir. Created in 1952 by the solicitor Paul Arrighi, member oh the Résistance and leader of the movement “Ceux de la Résistance”, a survivor of Mauthausen, and by Annette Lazard, widow of a deportee who died in Auschwitz-Birkenau, the Réseau seeks to keep the memory of the deportation to the Nazi camps alive, to inspire the French nation to pay homage to the victims, and to encourage new generations to consider the lessons to be learned from it. Its members are former deportees and members of the Résistance, as well as families of the disappeared.

Contemporary African Art

A new exhibition “Les Initiés”. This exhibition brings together fourteen emblematic artists from Jean Pigozzi Collection of Contemporary African Art, presented as such in Paris for the first time.

In 1989 after visiting the “Magiciens de la Terre” exhibition, which came as a revelation to him, Jean Pigozzi called on André Magnin as adviser to put together a collection he sought to dedicate to artists living and working in sub-Saharan Africa.

Frank Gehry, Architect Of Louis Vuitton Foundation

Louis Vuitton Fondation. “I dream of designing magnficient vessel for Paris that symbolizes France’s profund cultural vocation.” Frank Gehry said.The story of his dream, which became reality thanks to the engagement of the LVMH Group and its Chairman Bernard Arnault, is recounted by this exhibition dedicated to the architecture and the development process.