FEBRUARY 2020
2020 vision
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ON THE COVER Our annual feature on the past year's best images includes John Gerrard's Western Flag (Spindletop, Texas) 2017, a digital simulation on a frameless LED wall of billowing smoke at a now-barren oil field, which appeared in the 2019 Desert X, a public art biennial in California's Coachella Valley. Photography: Lance Gerber/courtesy of Desert X.
feature 104 A YEAR IN REFLECTION by Wilson Barlow and Colleen Curry
Explore our annual compilation of aweinspiring architecture, interiors, fashion, and art.
walk-through 51 CHI CHECKUP by Wilson Barlow
interior design giants 77 VIEW FROM THE TOP by Mike Zimmerman and T hinkLab
hospitality supplement 146 CONCRETE FOUNDATION by Elissaveta M. Brandon
A 1970’s office building is transformed into the Standard London, a hotel by Orms, Shawn Hausman Design, and Archer Humphryes Architects. 156 RESTORING THE PAST by Winifred Bird
Emre Arolat Architecture takes the Museum Hotel in southern Turkey back to the future.
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departments 25 DESIGNWIRE by Annie Block 34 BLIPS by Annie Block 36 SNAPS by Wilson Barlow 42 GREATER GOOD by Athena Waligore 44 PINUPS/MATERIAL BANK by Wilson Barlow 59 MARKET by Rebecca Thienes, Mark McMenamin, and Edie Cohen 99 CENTERFOLD by Colleen Curry Coming Up Rosy 25
DVCH revives an empty Mexican lot as a pink and palm-dotted playland. 166 CROSSLINES by Edie Cohen Ms. Proper
Add conceiving the identity for a multi-city hotel brand to Kelly Wearstler’s impeccable oeuvre. 178 BOOKS by Stanley Abercrombie 179 CONTACTS
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183 INTERVENTION by Wilson Barlow
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