Ellen Himelfarb

2 weeks ago | thespaces.com | Ellen Himelfarb

The 18th-century chapel at Yorkshire Sculpture Park provides a backdrop to some of the estate’s most exciting exhibitions, from last winter’s field of reflective discs by Liz West going back to Ai Weiwei’s 2014 intervention. This spring, it’s the turn of ‘living sculptor’ Laura Ellen Bacon, and it seems a natural progression for an institution so adept at bringing ‘indoor’ forms and professional sheen to its 500 acres.

1 month ago | thetimes.com | Ellen Himelfarb

1 month ago | thespaces.com | Ellen Himelfarb

Zion National Park, the exquisite canyon field in the desertscape of southwest Utah, is set to become an architectural paradise à la Palm Springs. The catalyst? A ‘landscape hotel’ and boutique retreat called Paréa, opening in 2027, and its new sister-development Pala, an architectural community with a master plan by Barcelona-based Studio Andrew Trotter. Pala Zion will sit a short drive from Paréa on 35 acres of private elevated mesa above the town of Virgin, near the trails of the national park.

1 month ago | thespaces.com | Ellen Himelfarb

With the parched desert landscape of Southern California as its canvas, Desert X inherits the outré artistic traditions of Coachella‘s annual festival in April — not to mention the statement-making sculpture of Marfa, Texas, and the grandiose gestures of Burning Man. Yet, it probably shares more with the legacy of site-specific landscape art pioneered by Richard Serra and the environmentally charged works of Richard Long.

1 month ago | thespaces.com | Ellen Himelfarb

The real estate feel-good story of the week takes place on the Thames in London, where the Conran Building, built in 1991 at 22 Shad Thames, is reopening for a new generation of creative minds. The Grade II-listed mini-tower was originally commissioned by cutlery and metalworker David Mellor on a dark, postindustrial dip in the river.