Though profoundly personal, her fantastical worlds are also open-ended, inviting us in as portals to our own experiences and psychological discovery.

Hughes invented landscapes, as she calls them, neither depict true-to-life landscapes nor the imagined. Their bold, clashing colours and shifting perspectives manifest into immersive and dream-like landscapes. Hughes works are at once surreal and abstract, inviting and alarming, beautiful and scary. Galerie Eva Presenhuber announced the exhibition Right This Way by the US-American artist Shara Hughes at Kunsten Museum of Modern Art Aalborg, Denmark, now on view from May 4 to September 17, 2023. Now 79 and a witness to many trendy environmental innovations, including verdant towers, Ambasz finds t. No polluting, extractive governmental bully was going to shrivel his environmental dreams. Although the green facade was never built, it represented a typical confrontation by a fearless pioneer.

This exterior portion would be a 20-story vertical garden, which would cool the building by shading it with flowers and plants that would change colors seasonally. When architect Emilio Ambasz won a 1998 competition to redesign the headquarters of Eni SpA, an oil company controlled by the Italian government, he recalled wagging a metaphorical finger at the companys president, saying, You owe it to Italy to do something green. Ambasz proposed a new facade for the building that would cover the rusting and leaking 1960s curtain wall and save millions by eliminating the need to relocate workers. A man of many hats, Ambasz practiced green architecture long before it was fashionable. The architect Emilio Ambasz at his apartment in New York on April 22, 2023.

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