Artificial nature with an alchemistic design.
Design
Tokujin Yoshioka.
Text
Stefano Casciani
Cassina. Unproduced and forgotten pieces
Precious evidence from the Cassina archives.
Text
Giampiero Bosoni. Photos
Nicola Zocchi
Clay font
New ways to use hollow bricks.
Design
Giulio Iacchetti.
Text
Maria Cristina Tommasini
From glass to plastic
An exploration of how to impart the visual effects
of glass to plastic.
Design
Luca Nichetto.
Text
Loredana Mascheroni
Tobeus, made to last
Toys that can be passed down to our children’s
children.
Design
Matteo Ragni.
Text
Odoardo Fioravanti
Manhattan dialogues
The real city and the imagined city meet in
a long-distance dialogue.
Correspondence
Casimir Maclain Oshima, Louis Sabra
8 point blue
A photographic overview of the five boroughs
of New York.
Project
Ramak Fazel and Anja Köstler.
Text
Ramak Fazel
Centro de Arte Contemporânea Inhotim, Brumadinho
A dark box set on the hills of Belo
Horizonte, Brazil, accommodates the
artwork of Adriana Varejão.
Design
Rodrigo Cerviño Lopez.
Text
Guilherme Wisnik
New stadium in Maribor
A large architectural device that
reverberates with energy.
Design
Ofis Arhitekti & Multiplan Arhitekti.
Text
Matevž Celik
Growing Tokyo
The Sia Aoyama Building in Tokyo.
Design
Jun Aoki.
Text
Francesca Picchi
High-performance tram terminal in Nice
A project that fuses urban planning,
architecture and infrastructure.
Design
Atelier Marc Barani.
Text
Rita Capezzuto
B720
The new Plaza del Torico in Teruel, Spain.
Design
Fermín Vázquez, B720 Arquitectos.
Text
Elena Sommariva
Malvarosa bridge
A zigzag bridge with a lot of urban charisma. Design
Miguel Arruda Arquitectos Ass.
Text
Carlos Sant’Ana
Incinerators in Japan
Grand urban infrastructures in Japan.
Text
Julian Worrall
PopMOMA, Beijing
The new face of China’s capital.
Design
Baumschlager & Eberle.
Text
Bert de Muynck
Jil Sander, New York
A playful use of light and an austere setting
mark a new eclectic space.
Design
Raf Simons, Germaine Kruip. Text Francesco Bonami
Sayama flat, Tokyo
Through a process of on-site deconstruction,
Schemata has converted some old apartments
into housing for young users.
Design, text
Jo Nagasaka, Schemata
Architecture Office
Kids’ town
Above Amsterdam, a hospital for children.
Design
Sponge Architects & Rupali Gupta. Text
Björn van Rheenen
What is ordos 100? And why?
Vite dei grandi: Le Corbusier
Okwui Enwezor
The anomalous profile of the director of the
Gwangju Biennale.
Text
Francesco Bonami
Andrea Zittel
On show at the Schaulager in Basel.
Text
Michael Ned Holte
We are many
Notes for the Venice Art Biennale 2009.
Edited by
Daniel Birnbaum
Cross-cultural. Psychedelic Soup
In Iran, dualities and contradictions in public/
private life and official/unofficial media have
been forming a schizophrenic mental space
which is being implied in many forms of art.
Text Kianoosh Vahabi
Earth mother
Paolo Soleri, Sketchbooks, Paradise Valley,
Scottsdale, AZ. Text Luigi Spinelli. Photos Archivi Domus.
Intersections: Hyperscale
From the United States to Kazakhstan via Russia:
mega urban designs for new cities. Edited by Francesca Picchi. Design tomato, Simon Taylor, John Warwicker, Texts Teddy Cruz, Keller Easterling, Jaffer Kolb, Irina Korobina.
Books
The Sunday Philosopher. Modern building. The
Adriano Olivetti story. Boccioni’s last words.
Edited by
Gianmario Andreani
Rassegna: Materials for sustainable buildings
Behind building. Edited by
Maria Cristina Tommasini