– Toshiko Mori, Thread: The cultural centre designed by Toshiko Mori in a rural village in Senegal – commissioned by Josef and Anni Albers Foundation – features local materials and local builders to give shape to an artist residency that is also a hub for the local community.
– SilverWood House: 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.
– Termitary House: 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.
– Pabellón Rio Blanco: this small summerhouse designed by Carme Pinós Desplat in Guadalajara, Mexico, gives a sense of spaciousness and brightness in a timeless and comfortable interior.
– A visionary architect: the 2015 Pritzker Architecture Prize has been awarded to Frei Otto – who dies in his native Germany on March 9, 2015 – for his contribute as architect, visionary, utopian, ecologist, pioneer of lightweight materials and protector of natural resources.
– Palazzo Greco: the restoration by AutonomeForme, in Palermo, is based on a dialogue between the historical buildings, the new architecture and the landscape design, exalting the historical layers.
– Tubakuba: hidden in a forest near Bergen, Tubakuba is a wooden pavilion, a room with a view built by Bergen School of Architecture’ students lead by Espen Folgerø.
– Wallpapering: will be unveiled at the Milan Design Week the new decorative sound absorbing tiles designed by Dear Human, made of 100% post-consumer paper.
– Domestic Platforms: the mutlifunctional collection designed by Matic Vrabič comments the position of furniture industry in times of crisis by searching for new ways of production and usage.
– 1001 Street Chairs of Cairo: Manar Moursi and David Puig Sidewalk Salon: 1001 Street Chairs of Cairo is a photographic survey on the creative practices of design in the public space in Egypt’s capital.
For the month of March our special coverage of Expo 2015 continues. Among the pavilions published (here), the Hungarian one was the subject of lively discussion on the social networks. Read the article and all the comments here.