Since 1928
Among the stories of our February’s Best of a café to study engineering, a kindergarten in Bangalore and an exhibition that leaves the gallery to occupy the street.
At Rome’s Galleria O, Anastasio’s objects speak of a dimension in which objects and furnishings are imbued with a soul, thought and function that moves seamlessly from one to the other.
For the Pani Community Centre in Bangladesh the Dutch architects SchilderScholte choose local materials and traditional skills, realizing an environmentally friendly building that contributes to the community in a significant way.
Registration is now open for the first training course offered in collaboration with DesignLibrary and De Lucchi Workshop, which will see the best participants rewarded with a placement in Europe, Asia and the United States.
In the outskirts of a Catalonian village, Anna & Eugeni Bach looked for a new relationship with the rural contest, developing a house which spatial organisation follows the logic of a warehouse, generating a large volume within which smaller units are placed, to offer intimacy.
LAN developed for a residential complex in the new Clichy-Batignolles mixed development area (Paris), a building that pays homage to Paris and the 19th century Haussmann’s architecture while looking to the future and to its changes.
Since 1928
For their house in Porto, Ana Cláudia Monteiro and Vítor Oliveira reinterpreted the inner structure of the typical Portuguese houses with simple volumes and a single color.
In a typical German neighbourhood Bechter Zaffignani Architekten created a concrete free-standing volume that is confidently different from the surrounding buildings.
In the exhibition at CCA Kitakyushu, the Turkish artist Emre Hüner created a set of interrelational references that illuminate future post-apocalyptic forms of habitats.
Since 1928
Commissioned to design a holiday house overlooking Tokyo Bay, Takeshi Hirobe conceived a robustly and independently building that answers to the natural environment.
Images by the duo Andreana Scanderbeg and Alexander Sauer – on show at Anteprima D’Arte Contemporanea, Roma – tell control technologies and the industrial paysage as part of the contemporary architecture’s beauty.
With the exhibiton “Twice”, Cyrille Weiner and Gregory Lacoua, photographer and designer, reflect on spatial occupation via the experimental use of two-dimensional photographic images.
