– Designed by ZAO in Beijing, Micro Hutong inherits the intimate scale of the traditional hutong, revitalizing its social condensing capabilities, while enhancing it with spatial improvements.
– Remembering the master Luigi Caccia Dominioni with a recent article published on Domus for his 100th birthday, when we met him at his home to peruse the details of some of his buildings that have become examples of good building practice.
– Located in the farmland on the fringe area of Guye district in Tangshan, China, Arch Studio designed a wood and policarbonate building that acts as a processing workshop of organic food.
– By combining soft robotic prosthesis with 3D vision systems, space can be perceived through wearable robotics, with many possible applications that include assisting the blind. Check Interactive Architecture Lab’s latest project on how may our bodies change in the future.
– WORK Architecture renovated one of New York’s oldest buildings, with its original cast iron facade, adding a rooftop structure that had to be invisible from the street.
– With this house – which geometry is formed from spherical spaces intersecting with tesseract trapezoid – Steven Holl questions current clichés of architectural language and commercial practice.
– The Tchoban Foundation presents a retrospective on Peter Cook’s drawings: regarded as one of Archigram instigators, the British architect is celebrating his 80th birthday this year.
– Recreating a closed-down family grocery store in Mississippi, Christian Patterson – Grand Prix Images Vevey 2016 –, questions consumerism, immigration and social change in capitalist societies.
– After his Mountain series in the Nevada desert, Ugo Rondinone installs a new piece commited by The Bass, in the southeast corner of Collins Park, Miami Beach.
– Are we sure that the values upon which we are building the future of the Western world are indeed the best? In his latest book, John Thackara describes the pieces of a puzzle that will soon come together, leading to a radical “paradigm change”.
Top: Tchoban Foundation, “Peter Cook. Retrospective”, Berlin, 2016