– Completely closed towards its context, the 21 House, built in a new urban centre of Thanh Hóa city province, Vietnam, hides an inner courtyard to which overlook all the living spaces.
– Cadaval & Solà-Morales built in front of the Mediterranean sea of the Costa Brava the Sunflower House, a house that is also a big solar collector, like a giant sunflower, composed of small units differently oriented to frame the breathtaking landscape.
– With this new swimming center in Brescia, Italy, Camillo Botticini defies the logic according to which sports facilities are withdrawn objects disconnected from the context, creating massive urban architecture, a block of iridescent brown Klinker cut by deep fissures.
– The young Slovakian studio Nice Architects presented at the Pioneers festival 2015 in Vienna Ecocapsule, its first functional prototype of the independent low-energy micro house.
– Golden Lion at the 56. Venice Art Biennale, the Armenian Pavilion is given over to a population scattered worldwide that epitomised the concept and spirit of internationalism long before the word global came into use.
– Nendo designed for Tod’s The architect’s bag, a new leather bag based on real architects needs that changes its shape in accordance to what it holds inside.
– Somewhere between a sculpture and an architectural installation, the exhibition “The Brutalist Playground” at RIBA’s Architecture Gallery invites people of all ages to come and play, the Brutalist way.
– A vertical field composed of modular tiles used for the cultivation of agricultural crops covers the main front of the Israeli pavilion at Expo, designed by Knafo Klimor Architects.
– Focusing on production rather than mediation or consumption, the show “What is Luxury?”, curated by Jana Scholze and Leanne Wierzba at the V&A, challenges the very idea of what luxury is and what it means in today.
– Instead of superimposition a new volume to the existing one, for the EG House Enrico Scaramellini creates a real connection that forms a symbiotic organism, with carefully studied openings to frame the Brianza’s Brianza.
– With a simple brick wall that divides the space into three parts Raanan Stern adapted a 1930’s apartment into a place that responds to modern needs.