– London-based studio dRMM Architects has been commissioned to renovate a pier in Hastings, England, providing open spaces to allow universal access.
– With great sobriety and formal restraint the white building designed by Alberto Campo Baeza in Pozuelo de Alarcón houses a sports center and a classroom complex.
– The law court designed by Taller de Arquitectura in Pátzcuaro, Mexico, features an oval wall, allowing that inside of it there are placed a succession of open gardens.
– At the Astana Expo 2017 in Kazakhstan, ecoLogicStudio showcased BIO.tech HUT, a future city algae farming, where new species of micro-organisms are domesticated.
– Kurt Hollander documented the interiors of an erotic videochat studio in Cali, Colombia. When seen in real life, the rooms resemble nothing so much as sets of a (porn) movie. Online, however, the fantasy elements of the pseudo-architecture appear convincingly real.
– Andrea Pallarès designed a piece of furniture that features a bed, a coffee table, a sofa and a chaise lounge all in one, ideal for the ever smaller spaces we live in.
– Walala x Play welcomes visitors to explore and enjoy a labyrinthine network of corridors and enclosed spaces in a “temple of wonder” created by Walala Studio.
– Reflecting on why project economies and other pragmatic advances in Africa often appear to the world as chaos, starting from Nigeria capital city Lagos.
– The solo exhibition at the 21er Haus, Vienna, comprises upwards of 40 sculptures and new works by Erwin Wurm, while the Upper Belvedere hosts one of his famous fat houses.
– After Athens, the 2017 edition of Documenta continues in Kassel and proves to be an anti-spectacular research exhibition with a time-release factor, filled with names from outside the mainstream.
Top: dRMM, Hastings Pier, UK, 2017. Photo Alex de Rijke