In the Peruvian Amazon, Espacio Común built a floating stage during the flooding of the Itaya River for a festival of young filmmakers. It has now become a permanent infrastructure.
On the Karl-Marx-Allee in East Berlin, a former children's department store designed by Hermann Henselmann is reborn with a new function thanks to the design by Gonzalez Haase AAS.
With Street Bed Unit, Lorenzo Damiani transforms the idea of hospitality into an essential and transportable microarchitecture designed to offer shelter and dignity to homeless people. But can design really respond to a social emergency?
In Troncones, an open-plan café makes use of natural materials, passive ventilation and open spaces to transform the coffee-drinking experience into a leisurely one.
In the Lapa district, ALA.rquitectos transforms an existing building into ten small apartments, allowing materials to define the project: original elements are restored and new surfaces engage in a dialogue with Portuguese tradition.
QB Atelier has designed a home in Veneto that occupies the spaces of a 20th-century factory and opens onto a secret garden.
Located on the Atlantic coast of Benin in West Africa, the new cultural venue aims to engage with the landscape, which has been shaped by significant historical events.
Near Lecce, the Margine studio has transformed the historic Masseria Caronte into a restaurant, carrying out a “subtractive” restoration that strips away later additions and restores the building’s original spatial and material clarity.
Filipe Saraiva has reinterpreted the footprint of an existing building to create a compact house which establishes a dialogue with the landscape and its history through precise volumetric cut-outs.
The name itself denounces the concept of the house: introverted and almost completely closed to the outside world. In reality, there is much more to this ethereal space sculpted by white masonry.
Fern House, designed by Holesum Studio for a couple seeking a closer connection with nature, blends seamlessly into the landscape, nestling among the trees and echoing the textures and materials of the forest.
Art sets the pace and architecture follows
Frederic Migayrou, curator of the exhibition “Aerodream” at the Centre Pompidou-Metz, tells us the aesthetic and social evolution of these majestic inflatable structures, from Second World War until today.
An unusual typological layout, a vast green area and roofs that become public squares: this is the setting for the new hospital in the Milan metropolitan area. Paolo Zilli, director at Zaha Hadid Architects, explains the project to Domus.
This 19th-century terraced house was renovated in the neoclassical style in the 1990s. It has now been reimagined by the Local Local studio, combining traditional building methods with a contemporary aesthetic to restore a sense of lightness and vibrancy to the spaces.
