Best of #August

Among the best of August a long wall that encloses twelve temporary residences for farmers in Australia, a bridge made up of a sequence of circles in Denmark and a museum that seems carved into the top of a mountain in Italy.

Zaha Hadid Architects, Messner Mountain Museum Corones, Sud Tirolo. Photo © Werner Huthmacher
As every month, we have collected the best of what has happened in the world of art, design and architecture during the month of August. Completed by a rarity from our archive that tells Cesare Casati’s journey in Brasilia during the Sixties.


– Rammed earth extracted from the local clay pans, pebbles and gravel quarried from the river bed are the palette of materials used by Luigi Rosselli for this 230 metres long wall that encloses twelve earth covered residences for farmers.

– Hungarian industrial designer Ollé Gellért developed a collection of 3D printed small joints able to connect bigger parts from different materials.

– Triendl Und Fessler Architekten completed in the outskirts of Vienna a private retreat as a introverted courtyard typology made of monolithic brick walls.

– Olafur Eliasson’s “circle bridge” – just inaugurated in Copenhagen – brings people closer to the water and encourages them to slow down a little and take a break.

– The Messner Mountain Museum Corones, designed by Zaha Hadid in South Tyrol, seems to come out of the mountains with its series of concrete canopies overhanging the valley.

– In Quebec La SHED architecture converted a typical 90’s bungalow into a contemporary house preserving one of its principal characteristics: the split levels.

– Roughly 50 years on, Iñaki Bergera’s photographs are skilful examples of the topographical tradition originally inspired by Ed Ruscha to objectively describe territorial signs.

– In Paris, the exhibition “Japon, l’archipel de la maison” offers an enlightening glimpse of the Nippon culture and a rich catalogue of tips and tricks for meditation.

– A top made of copper and steel on four oak’s legs: is the last essential furniture proposal from the Israeli designer and maker Alon Dodo.

 

Top: Zaha Hadid Architects, Messner Mountain Museum Corones, South Tyrol, Italy. Photo © Werner Huthmacher

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