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Tag Archives: Herzog & de Meuron
See Basel: A City Artfully Designed to Please
Keen to take a city break that’s chock full of eye candy treats by some of the world’s greatest modern architects, designers, and artists? Go to Basel. I was blown away by all the fascinating stuff I got to behold during my few days there. Continue reading
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Posted in Art, Basel, Basel City Break, Design, Germany, Graffiti, Museums, Shopping, Switzerland, Travel
Tagged 20th century design, ARCHITECTURE, Arnold Bocklin, Art, Basel, Basel City Break, Basel Fine Art Museum, Basel in Weil am Rhein, Basler Papiermühle, Beyeler Foundation, braque, bruce nauman, Cézanne, Charles Eames, city tour, cubism, design, eames, fine art, Fondation Beyeler, Frank Gehry, George Nelson, German Expressionism, germany, Graffiti, Herzog & de Meuron, Holbein, Isamu Noguchi, Jean Tingugely, Katharina Fritsch, Krištof Kintera, Kunstmuseum Basel, Laurenz Foundation, Léger, modern architecture, modern art, Monet, Münchenstein, Museum Tinguely, museums, pablo picasso, paper mill, paper museum, Paul Chan, picasso, Rattenkonig, Ray Eames, renaissance art, renzo piano, Rhein, Richar Serra, Robert Gober, rudolph suter, Schaulager, sculptor, street art, swiss, swiss design, swiss symbolism, switzerland, Travel, travel blog, vitra, vitra campus, Vitra Design Museum
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My Basel: Taking the Make My Switzerland App for a Spin
Obviously you’ve heard about Switzerland’s stunning panoramas of and from its mighty Alps. But for my first of hopefully many more visits to this friendly little Alpine nation, I found the views shared via a handy Swiss app to be a real wonder to behold as well. The free to download app, called Make My Switzerland, is available via Google Play and Apple’s App Store and offers a wealth of insider knowledge about the things that savvy locals love best in seven Swiss cities – Basel, Bern, Geneva, Lausanne, Lucerne, Lugano, and Zurich. I gave the app a whirl over an especially fun weekend in Basel, and I’m more than happy to recommend the city and the app to anybody keen to explore a delightful and compact destination that’s big on culture. Continue reading
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Posted in Apps, Art, Basel, Basel City Break, Design, Drink, Food, Freebies, Restaurants, Shopping, Travel
Tagged app, apps, ARCHITECTURE, Basel, Basel City Break, design, free, freebies, Herzog & de Meuron, make my switzerland, make my switzerland app, mobility ticket, my switzerland, my switzerland app, myswitzerland, Rhein, swiss, swissair, switzerland, Travel, travel blog
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Memory Marathon at the Serpentine Gallery This Weekend
As I mentioned yesterday, I spent the earlier part of this week having an art fuelled staycation in the heart of London, participating in Le Méridien Piccadilly‘s blogger thingy centred around this year’s Frieze Art Fair. I had a blast, … Continue reading
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Posted in Art, Design, Le Méridien at Frieze 2012, London
Tagged AI WEIWEI, Art, frieze, frieze art fair, Frieze London 2012, geodesic dome, Herzog & de Meuron, Hyde Park, le meridien, Le Méridien at Frieze 2012, le meridien piccadilly, memory marathon, outset, outset contemporary art fund, Outset/Frieze Art Fair Fund to Benefit the Tate Collection, SERPENTINE GALLERY, Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2012, thomas shutte, thomas shutte; faces & figures
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Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2012 – Herzog & de Meuron with Ai Weiwei at Hyde Park (OneTravel)
Compared to past commissions, the 2012 pavilion is more subtle and has received considerable criticism for delivering less “wow” (and for its pool of water unintentionally drawing insects). Still, it’s a contemplative and restful place (and the bugs weren’t bad … Continue reading
