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A selection of architectures between Wright, Lautner and Kengo Kuma, Gio Ponti and Norman Foster, merging the escape from the ordinary and a full immersion in modern and contemporary history.
A visit to the authentic water world of Colombia’s Venice
Founded in 1847, Nueva Venecia, the largest lagoon complex in Colombia, has no roads, preserves cultural practices from past centuries and faces many challenges: local violence, anthropization and the climate crisis.
Carlo Ratti puts intelligence and a Venice takeover at the heart of his Biennale
Natural, artificial and collective intelligence, Venice transformed into a laboratory, a coordination of national pavilions and an open inbox for ideas to be proposed: this is what has been anticipated so far about the Architecture Biennale 2025.
Álvaro Siza on Domus, from the Porto School to projects in China
The Portuguese master through our digital archive, between the redemption of historical traces and critical regionalism, through works and drawings that exude poetic sensitivity.
Translucent pavilions to live and work in the Japanese forest
In the woods of Mount Rokko, the renovation of a historic villa with five new cottages offers the opportunity to lodge, work or simply contemplate nature, decanting the pace of a not-far-away metropolitan life.
The renovation of an Art Nouveau building in Barcelona
BACH renovated and extended an early 20th century building while preserving its original features, in a skilful dialogue between old and new.
The spaces of Challengers: life as a tennis match
In Guadagnino’s latest film, tennis talk takes center stage, yet it’s never about tennis. And the court becomes a cinematic metaphor.
Wood and stone for a new university building in the Netherlands
In Tilburg, the first university building in Europe made entirely of wood and clad in stone reinterprets the idea of the palace by following the principles of circularity.
“If we have a heritage, it’s to enrich it”. Jean Nouvel’s Paris beyond the Olympics
The future of a changing capital, starting from its architecture. We talked about it with our 2022 guest editor, a protagonist of this transformation through four decades, who designed an installation for Samsung in the heart of the Olympic area.
A house near Goa, nestled around an enclosed garden
An introverted and protective dwelling in India, designed to offer shelter from monsoons, discloses familiar and private atmospheres around a hidden courtyard.
Building in straw: a possibility for the future of living in 5 key projects
From the American suburbs to the Milanese countryside, from Belgium to the Alps, architecture shows the sustainability and poetics of building in straw.
Aerodream, the spectacular history of inflatables
Art sets the pace and architecture follows
Frederic Migayrou, curator of the exhibition “Aerodream” at the Centre Pompidou-Metz, tells us the aesthetic and social evolution of these majestic inflatable structures, from Second World War until today.
The dual logic of a pinwheel house in Canada
Reflect Architecture’s design for a buen retiro in the Ontario forests interprets the dwelling as an introverted and protected place, on the one hand, open and integrated into the landscape on the other.
A video project that tells the story of Milan, between Berio, Ponti, and BBPR
MASBEDO’s “Ritratto di città” (Portrait of a city) at the Museo del Novecento in Milan recreates the topography of a city driven by collaborative intelligence on an 8-meter LED wall.