Best of #June

Alternative graveyards, fluid pavilions, Middle East architecture: discover here June’s top stories.

Jalal Sepher, As far as the eyes can see
This June saw a chapel made of old bricks in the middle of the Argentinian Pampas, an interview to designer Constance Guisset, young Christo in the Antarctic, a photoessay of Iranian photographer Jalal Sepehr, the new Serpentine Pavilion in London, a renewal of an old Venetian building by OMA, and much more.

– Built reusing one hundred years old bricks from a dismantled rural house, the chapel designed by Nicolás Campodonico in the Argentinian Pampa plains deeply interacts with light and shadows.

– Using multilayered terrace platforms, just like in town squares, Jo Jinman Architects designed a house for a three generation family of eight people, that required private spaces and pleasant views.

– Keivani Architects designed a residential building inspired by Iranian genius loci, reinterpreting the traditional orsi window in a space where stone, wood, water, light and plants combine together.

– Designed by the Ljubljana-based office OFIS Architects, Villa Criss Cross Envelope aims to make an abstract interpretation of the texture of classical villas in the historical suburb.

– After years of design and initiatives, the project that will reverse our way of conceiving today’s burial techniques, transforming cemeteries into forests, has finally been launched.

– First constructed in 1228, one of Venice’s largest and most recognizable buildings has recently been renewed by OMA to host a department store.

– We choose this article from Domus archive because the words of Tommaso Trini, art critic and art historian, still fit with the last artist’s work, conceived in 1970, Floating Piers, just opened to the public on Lago d’Iseo, Italy.  

– The Iranian photographer Jalal Sepehr recounts, through different series, the sufferings and continuos alarm of the Middle Eastern populations due to wars and emigration.

– To celebrate the much acclaimed series Game of Thrones, Moleskine asked an illustrator to design a special edition cover, and some videomakers to pay a tribute video with its paper.

– Álvaro Siza Vieira and Eduardo Souto de Moura realized the construction of the International Contemporary Sculpture Museum and rehabilitation of the Municipal Museum Abade Pedrosa.

– Designed by Bjarke Ingels Group this year’s Serpentine Pavilion is a three-dimensional fluid space, on show together with four Summer Houses inspired by Queen Caroline’s Temple.

– This chat with the French designer Guisset explores her work, her personal theory of relativity applied to the design of everyday things and her exhibition at the Château de Courcelles in Montigny-les-Metz.

– In Making Waves, the French artist Isabelle Daëron harnesses the form of water drops to compose the entire landscape in these displays.

Top: Jalal Sepehr, Red Zone #1

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