The Overlooked Architectural Beauty of Italy’s Courtrooms

Courtrooms aren’t typically places people voluntarily seek out, but they’re often spaces of architectural splendor. This is especially true for many of Northern Italy’s courtrooms, which were recently photographed by Luca Sironi for his series titled “Fragments of Justice.” He ventured throughout his home country to capture the legal chambers while they were vacant and quiet—filled only by natural light. The resulting images depict the …

Tom Blachford’s Latest “Midnight Modern” Photographs

Breathtaking images that capture Palm Springs modernist homes and period automobiles by the light of the moon

There is a long list of place around the world that have been so extensively photographed one wonders if it’s even possible to cast them in new light, present something new, or keep the mythos alive. Palm Springs falls upon that list with its decades of modernist architecture set amongst a stark desert backdrop. And yet Melbourne-based photographer Tom Blachford continues to capture its essence …

A Hidden Isamu Noguchi-Designed Ceiling Inside a U-Haul

U-Haul recently exposed a hidden Isamu Noguchi-designed ceiling at one if its branches in St Louis, Missouri. Created by the artist back in the 1940s, the sculptural ceiling was later hidden by partitions and other paneling about 20 years ago, with just a plaster mold of the design viewable at the St Louis Art Museum. “It’s something that needed to be shown,” stated Stephen Langford, …