Two North Italian style tables with opposing winged griffins reputedly sold for a fraction of their construction price. Christie’s will announce record global sales of £3.2 billion ($5 billion) for 2010 next month. The figure includes both auction sales and private sales, and just nudges ahead of the company’s previous high of £3.1 billion in [...]

East façade, view across Ultimo Pedestrian Network, model scale: 1-to-10 Sydney’s Frank Gehry designed Dr Chau Chak Wing building will open a new page in business education in Australia. The world-renowned architect’s plans for the $150 million building, his only in Australia, were unveiled at a media conference at the University of Technology, Sydney. UTS [...]

Comcast Center, a prismatic glass curtainwall office tower in Philadelphia carries forward the proportions of the classical obelisk. Robert A. M. Stern, whose influential designs have revitalized traditional architecture, has been named the 2011 recipient of the Richard H. Driehaus Prize for Classical Architecture. Stern will receive $200,000 and a model of the Choregic Monument [...]

Projections of Paolo Veronese’s “Wedding at Cana,” part of “Leonardo’s Last Supper: A Vision by Peter Greenaway,” shown during a press preview at the Park Avenue Armory. If you had tied on a blindfold, suspended disbelief and allowed yourself to be carried last week to a particular location just off Park Avenue near 66th Street, [...]