What’s Happening: The late Pritzker Prize laureate’s swan song is a sugar cube of a building that brings out the color in collector Reinhard Ernst’s trove of postwar abstract art.

The Download: Fumihiko Maki died earlier this summer after a storied career that involved kickstarting the Japanese Metabolism movement, scooping the Pritzker Prize, and designing one of the most graceful skyscrapers at the redeveloped World Trade Center. His death, at the age of 95, preceded by mere days the ribbon-cutting of his final project, Museum Reinhard Ernst in the quiet German city of Wiesbaden. It very well encapsulates what museum architecture does best. Eschewing grandiose gestures that threaten to overpower the robust collection of collector Reinhard Ernst’s postwar abstract art, the building’s brilliance shines in subtle moments. It starts with the facade’s velvety white granite—a coat of quartz sand catches sunlight, lending the cubic structures a faint sheen. Locals already nicknamed it “sugar cubes.”

Ernst had previously tapped Maki to design a community center in Japan, so the two were well-acquainted. Maki dutifully studied his collection to inform the interior, a pristine sea of white awash in sunlight thanks to a smattering of atria and a glass-walled courtyard evoking Japanese gardens. A solitary piece by Eduardo Chillida presides there, but distracted eyes may wander to niches containing a gilded duo of rippling Tony Cragg sculptures or a bright-red mash of freeway barriers by Bettina Pousttchi. Ernst gravitates toward color—pieces by Helen Frankenthaler, Frank Stella, and Katharina Grosse project, but not too loudly—so Maki envisioned a frictionless vehicle for the collection to breathe. That doesn’t mean his work takes a backseat; a show honoring his career is up through February. There, one learns that in 1985, to celebrate 20 years of his firm, he voiced a dream to design ten museums. He didn’t live long enough to fully witness it, but there’s reason to be proud: Museum Reinhard Ernst is his tenth.

In Their Own Words: When Maki won the Pritzker Prize, in 1993, the jury cited his approach to architecture as “discovery, not invention… a cultural act in response to the common imagination or vision of the time.” But it’s Maki’s approach to designing places like Museum Reinhard Ernst that wields the most wisdom: “It is the responsibility of the architect to leave behind buildings that are assets to culture.”

Surface Says: It’s an asset to children, too—the museum is open exclusively to school-aged kids until midday.

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After cutting her teeth at the likes of Ralph Lauren and Michael Kors, Oases founder Sonam Sangmo set her sights on creating a wellness-minded café, bar and restaurant, and boutique. Now, having brought Oases to life in New York City’s West Village, she’s done just that. The restaurant will open next month, but for now, Oases café offers all-day fare rooted in Sonam’s Himalayan and Buddhist upbringing, and the Ayurvedic medicine of India, where she grew up.

Come the chilly season, the Chelsea curry healing bowl with butternut and green squash is sure to be a crowd-pleaser. For a sweeter treat, reach for the brioche french toast with glazed pecans, candied orange, and chantilly cream. Enjoy it all in serene interiors by Studio Rolling, which are rendered in soft shades of cream and ecru with soothing fountains and succulent greenery.

Olya Volkova launched her hospitality-driven firm with Mila, a buzzy Miami restaurant that combines elegant dining with beach-inflected interiors that forge a transportive experience to the Mediterranean. Its runaway success has afforded the Russian-born, Los Angeles–based talent the confidence to keep zeroing in on her highly personalized approach to space planning (two more projects, Noora and Claudie, are on the way in Miami) that are sure to continue seamlessly bridging cultures through materials and craft.

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Summer is the season when gala circuit regulars loosen their ties and let their hair down, and few places are more beloved for that than Storm King Art Center’s Summer Night. This past weekend, the sculpture park celebrated its second and final summer gathering of the year. Supporters convened for a seated dinner catered by Fancy Feast Supper Club. Afterward, a wider swath of attendees joined for a musical performance by Helado Negro and took in the center’s rolling hills and installations, including Alicja Kwade’s Linienland.

The Robern brand was born in 1968 and has since become an American tradition. To answer customers’ increasingly upscale tastes, Rosa and Bernie Meyers reinvented the standard medicine cabinets and vanities of the day—from cold, steel, utilitarian—into coveted décor.

Surface Says: There’s long been a dearth of aesthetically inclined vanities and medicine cabinets, but Robern’s are fit to complement thoughtfully furnished interiors elsewhere in the home. With options for dwellings from pieds-à-terre to rural farmhouses, there’s something for everyone in the fabricator’s curated lineup.

It’s not a museum or a train station; this locomotive in Idaho is an Airbnb.

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