– Nendo, Seven doors: Nendo presented during Milan Design Week the new door collection Seven doors, developed for the Japanese wooden door manufacturer Abe Kogyo.
– Carbon Wood Bike: a father and his son, combining craftsmanship and knowledge, old materials and new fibers, give shape to a lightweight and durable bike made of carbon fiber and wood.
– The Cave in Pilares: into the Pilares ecological reserve, Mexico, Kenji López Rivera, founder of the Greenfield architectural practice, conceived a building that responds to the site with basic volumes that rise with materials from the region, gaining color and texture right from the landscape.
– Less than 50 sqm: in less than 50 square meters Architects conceived a rational apartment, experimenting with new design solutions that turns connective spaces into functional areas.
– Villa Mörtnäs: in the Stockholm archipelago Fourfoursixsix were commissioned by Strömma Projekt to design a family home that stood out from the vernacular.
– Riva 1920. Projects and Passion: at the Salone del Mobile, the unstoppable flow of Riva 1920 designs carried you off into an approach to business that does not focus on, albeit pressing, financial and industrial dictates.
– The wooden cube: taking the traditional Bavarian wooden houses as a starting point, Kühnlein Architektur designed a wooden goat barn integrating the free landscape around it.
– FORM, Framing house: semi-outdoor passages, galleries, and habitable spaces follow each other creating a unique and continuous interior in this house designed in Shiga, Japan, by FORM/Kouichi Kimura Architects.
– Housing in Portugal: an exhibition at the CCA documents the pioneering experiment that empowered architects and citizens to create housing with a place in the city.
– Casa Vivian: clear shapes and vivid colors define the spaces of this house in Mexico, designed by Arqxioma to ensure maximum privacy, without compromising brightness and ventilation.
– BNTHMCRWL, Paleisbrug: a 250 metre-long pedestrian link across the railway track between the historic centre of ’s-Hertogenbosch and Paleiskwartier, in The Netherlands, was the pretext for Benthem Crouwel Architects to create a suspended park-like area.
– Antivilla: Brandlhuber+ Emde, Schneider transformed the Ernst Lück underwear factory – built in the 1960s in the southwest of Berlin – into a living and a studio with a new approach that incorporates a new concept of resilience.
– Elie Metni, Starch Boutique: for this shop in Beirut Elie Metni developed a wood installation made of 70 identical wooden stools fitted together to form a new object used as a display for designers’ work.
– My East is Your West: an exhibition unites for the first time at the Biennale the historically conflicting nations of India and Pakistan through the works of Shilpa Gupta and Rashid Rana.
– All the World’s Futures: Okwui Enwezor, curator of the 56th venice Art Biennale, with his show outlines a proposal – that we should remaining vigilant and continue to probe in order to understand, identify the fundamentals and use them as the basis for our reasoning once more.