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The dramatic challenge of the refugees was at the centre of the latest edition of “What Design Can Do”. Among the key projects was AGRIshelter, dwellings in hardwearing biodegradable materials.
Designed by Manca Studio in Matera, La Dimora di Metello is an hotel capable of dialoguing with the context and tradition, in a balance between lightness and modernity.
The Norvegian studio KOKO architects designed Skåpet Mountain Lodges in Soddatjørn, featuring contemporary, easy to maintain and use ready-made factory modules.
The book by Alessandro Mendini is a mass of thoughts, letters, messages, interviews and incursions: some of the most interesting lines produced in design literature over the last hundred years.
CZA – Cino Zucchi Architetti designed Pedrali’s new automated warehouse in Mornico al Serio, in Italy, as a visual screen that responds to the diverse conditions of the surrounding landscape.
The roots of Radical Design are on show at MAXXI in the large retrospective “Superstudio 50” curated by Gabriele Mastrigli.
“Silence”, in Beirut, is an interesting design experiment with the precariousness of urban space jeopardised by noise pollution and other annoyances.
Bloot Architecture in collaboration with Architectenbureau Filip Mens designed a brand new sports pavilion in The Hague, featuring a facade of wooden pallets.
A photographer and a video maker documented the “colored” result of the protests that for three months shaked the Macedonian capital changing the face of the new, detested, monuments.
