Best of #grey

While Mr. Grey’s adventures are back on the beaches, we tell you ten stories about “shades of grey”, from silver to concrete.

Gijs Van Vaerenbergh, Labyrinth, C-mine arts centre, Genk, Belgium. Photo © Filip Dujardin
With the complicity of the British author E. L. James, the grey and its shades have been the summer hit for the last four years. We chose ten stories that have this color as the main protagonist, ranging from silver brightness to concrete materiality.


FAKT’s installation for the Festival des Architectures Vives enrich the structural nature of architecture with a sense of physical excitement and ever-changing visual properties.

– For Issey Miyake’s brand Bao Bao Japanese studio Moment designed in Tokyo a pop-up shop surrounded by more than 300 floating metallic balloons.

– Consisting of primarily collective and social housing, LAN Architecture’s urban development project accommodating roughly 10,500 people and 50% of Lormont’s population is now complete.

– Designed by Tobia Scarpa, PAN 999 is the new collection of cooking utensils launched by San Lorenzo, that exploits the physical and chemical properties of pure silver and pure iron.

– With its stainless steel facade that softly reflects natural light to echo the context, the Investcorp Building designed by Zaha Hadid expands the Middle East Centre’s library & archive and connects the existing protected buildings and trees.

– Taller Sintesis with Angélica Gaviria and Juan Guillermo Caicedo designed in Pueblo Bello, Colombia, the House of Memory, a building that would serve to regain and strengthen community life while honoring the memory of the 500 victims of the paramilitary and guerrilla violence.

– Crossboundaries realized Aimer’s factory as a building made of aluminum and glass that reflects the nature of lingerie and uses curves and rounded quadrilateral patterns inspired to lace.

– 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.

– With her installation Endolith Casts Dana Barnes creates a landscape of concrete forms colonized by unexpected, texturally intricate structures and color reminiscent of the endolith lichens.

– Young Belgian architects and artists Pieterjan Gijs and Arnout Van Vaerenbergh realized an experimental labyrinth to mark the tenth birthday of arts centre C-mine.



Top: Gijs Van Vaerenbergh, Labyrinth, C-mine arts centre, Genk, Belgium. Photo © Filip Dujardin

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