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Venice House featured in Jennifer Ash Rudick & Firooz Zahedi’s new book, ‘City of Angels: Houses and Gardens of Los Angeles’

July 5, 2018 Uncategorized

wHY's house in Venice is featured in the publication, to be released in October, featuring thirty houses and gardens designed by renowned architects, interior designers, and gardeners. Expertly guided by author Jennifer Ash Rudick and photographer Firooz Zahedi, reader can also visit Kelly Wearstler’s beach house in Malibu, Hutton Wilkinson’s exotic ranch in the Santa Monica Mountains, a midcentury modern Schindler house, a Pacific Palisades villa decorated by Oliver Furth, John Lautner’s vertigo-inducing modernist glass box in the Hollywood Hills, and Richard Shapiro’s overgrown gardens surrounding a magnificent Hispano-Moorish house in Holmby Hills. More information available from the publisher, Vendome Press, here.

California Allocates $9.7 Million for Cheech Marin’s Chicano Art Museum

June 28, 2018 Uncategorized

Nearly $10 million of the state of California’s $139 billion budget for 2018–19, which Governor Jerry Brown approved on Wednesday, June 27, is being awarded to a new museum dedicated to Chicano art. Designed by wHY and Page & Turnbull, the center is the brainchild of actor and collector Cheech Marin, and will become the home of his seven-hundred-work collection. Marin has partnered with the city of Riverside, California, and the Riverside Art Museumto realise the project.

wHY’s curvaceous home in Chiang Mai featured by Metropolis

June 18, 2018 Buildings

Perched above the Ping River in Chiang Mai, a city about 300 miles north of Bangkok, wHY's dramatic residence is organized as two pavilions—a main residence and a guest house—the two structures are connected by wooden terraces and are elevated three feet above the ground to safeguard against flooding. Read more here.

Asian Art Museum reveals ‘Masterpieces in Context’

June 10, 2018 Buildings, Uncategorized

As the museum's transformation gets underway (part of wHY's ongoing work at AAM) -- the museum has revealed the concept for its new third floor galleries: "Masterpieces in Context," a new approach to the display and interpretation of the most significant works in the collection. When the museum's third-floor galleries reopen at the end of the year, visitors will find nine key works presented in ways that will expand understanding and deepen appreciation of the AAM's extensive collection. Read more here.

R & Company unveils fresh New York gallery designed by wHY

June 3, 2018 Buildings, Uncategorized

Designed by wHY's Kulapat Yantrasast and Andrija Stojic, the new multi-level gallery not only houses exhibition spaces, but also an academic research center with an archive and library amassed during the gallery’s 20 years, that will be available to both institutions and the public. Read more here.

Kulapat Yantrasast profiled in the New York Times

May 24, 2018 Buildings, Grounds, Ideas, Objects

Ted Loos from the New York Times profiles Kulapat as the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale opens. Read the profile here.