Since 1928
The new Fondazione Achille Castiglioni exhibition “The Rules of the Game”, pays homage to Castiglioni’s meticulous but ironical approach with a hugely varied provision of artists linked to this exceptional figure.
To build this house in a central coastal city of Vietnam, an area with an extreme climate, Tropical Space took inspiration from the termites’ special ability to build their nests, creating a brick building with a double skin.
The first project of Ernesto Pereira is a house for a couple in Vila do Conde, Portugal, designed without any budget limit nor deadline, just to answer the client’s need.
Juxtaposing the local craftsmanship of brickworks, with the simplicity and neatness of the white walls and architectural elements of traditional architecture, Onion completed a twenty-six-room boutique hotel in Ayutthaya, the old capital of Thailand.
Luca Picardi’s photoessay focuses on the outskirts of Genoa, Italy, enlightening the lack of any immediately identifiable anthropological dimension that reveals clear urban design failures.
For the visitor center of Xinglong – an old Chinese fishing village now transformed into a coastal resort – Atelier Alter recreates the impression of numerous fishing lodges on the island in a zigzag building, incorporating tropical plants and fishing island craftsmanship.
Since 1928
21_21 Design Sight’s new exhibition celebrates everyday design and invites visitors to answer questions on the measurement system by confronting them with contemporary design and lifestyle.
Muka Arquitectura’s ribbed concrete residence in Ciudad Real – a fortress-like block with three delicate glass boxes that run the height of the ocher facade – completes the “first piece of the urban puzzle” for a largely undeveloped area of the Spanish city.
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.
Since 1928
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.
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.
