Canadian photographer Greg Girard journeys from one bar to another, looking for the Japan he once knew, reflecting on memory, life between cultures, and what it means to make a picture.

Invisible Seams shares the stories of eight different Asian seamstresses and pattern-makers in New York, bringing to the fore the experiences of these frontline workers of the fashion industry, whose voices are too often overlooked. These women have weathered the pandemic, the rise of anti-Asian hate crimes, trials of immigration, and the never-ending demands of fashion cycles. Invisible Seams is a celebration of their talent and expertise, an acknowledgment that their devotion to their craft is also a means of survival.

Featuring 6 TikTok employees from London, Beijing, Sao Paulo and LA.

Secret’s Out | NYT Cooking

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Tracing the architectural lineage from the Rose Center for Earth and Space in New York City to the immersive, groundbreaking museum & planetarium in Shanghai, we ask, can architecture serve science, our humanity, as well as our imagination?

What this pandemic and global climate emergency have shown us is that we need to recalibrate everything we do. In this short film, we trace the legacy of Safdie’s vision through the “utopian vision” of Habitat 67 to the newest forms of Habitat in Qinhuangdao, China, asking what makes for sustainable architecture today and in the future?

For Chinatown restaurants like Wendy’s, the impact of Covid-19 will soon become too much to bear. Business took a spike in February 2020—and not just because of a lack of foot traffic. Racism and xenophobia have threatened these places’ survival, too, with anti-Asian sentiment on the rise. Spicy Village’s future is under threat. They desperately need a show of support from New York’s noodle-lovers.

A thoughtful person performs a job that many people don’t think very much of. Zhang Sai, an essential worker during the early days of the pandemic in Wuhan, reflects on work, resilience, and devotion.

At the Gansu Dingle Noodle School in Lanzhou, China, many have traveled to learn the art of making hand-pulled noodles. Ten students from different walks of life try to master the craft with hopes of changing their fortunes.

Moshe Safdie visits the most ambitious project of his lifetime - Raffles City Chongqing - before the site opens. Controversy, culture, and aspirations surround this project which took over 8 years to realize.

A living legend, Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza talks to Julia Zhu about his hometown, country, and his inspiration and challenges working in architecture today.