Best of August

Two special houses, bamboo and papyrus, and the black’s bodies. Discover August’s best stories.

Chiangmai Life Architects, Centro sportivo per la PChiangmai Life Architects, Bamboo Sports Hall for Panyaden International School, Chiang Mai, Thailand, 2017. Photo Alberto Cosi
Swimming pools in Capri island (dreamy ones) and two houses with a totally different architectural approach, one in Portugal and the other one in Italy, both with a strong and precise identity; an extraordinary bamboo sports center, made with a material that is becoming a great opportunity also for very big, complex and sustainable buildings and the interview with two architects who decided to live and work on an island in the middle of the ocean. Finally the exhibition of a South African visual activist and photographer that critically tells the politics of race and representation of the black’s bodies.

– For this house in Portugal, designed by extrastudio, a natural red pigment was added to the external mortar, allowing the residence to age gradually and to change its tonality.

– With the participation of Videbæk local community, Erik Brandt Dam architects and Cornelius+Vöge have renovated an abandoned school to create a civic center.

– The main features of the house by 35a studio di architettura in Valverde, Italy, are open spaces, its materials and the 45-degree rotation of the traditional roof.

– With a long sequence of details, the polaroids of Giovanna Silva map out the most famous swimming pools on the island of Capri. The end result is a single place, made of many different pools.

– With over 60 self-portraits, South African visual activist and photographer Zanele Muholi critically employs the conventions of ethnographic imagery to raise social awareness.

– When an early 20th century house in the heart of Rotterdam was becoming derelict, Shift Architecture Urbanism was asked to radically renovate it, while preserving its historical traces.

– Kamaro’an explores natural materials and delicate craftsmanship from Taiwanese indigenous culture to create handmade lamps out of umbrella sedge plants.

– Japanese designer and artist Akane Moriyama created a site-specific installation using textile and colour within the courtyard of the Arquipélago Art Center in the Azores.

– Ramos Castellano Architects recount how you work in Mindelo, São Vicente island one of the ten of the African archipelago of Cabo Verde, considered the cultural capital of the state.

– Chiangmai Life Architect’s Bamboo Sports Hall in Chiang Mai, Thailand, combines modern organic design, 21st century engineering and a natural material – bamboo.

Top: Chiangmai Life Architects, Chiangmai Life Architects, Bamboo Sports Hall for Panyaden International School, Chiang Mai, Thailand, 2017. Photo Alberto Cosi

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