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Steffen Impgaard, The Green Embassy, Aarhus, 2017

The Green Embassy

The temporary pavilion by Steffen Impgaard in Aarhus is an architectural framework and venue in the urban space that hosts the project Taste, helping citizens to get started to grow.

Angélica Dass, Humanae

Identity Flows

The exhibition at the Triennale di Milano shows the projects of the 16 young photographers involved in Urban Layers and coming from all over the world.

Dark Arkitekter, Oslo Skatehall, 2017

Oslo Skatehall

The sport centre designed by Dark Arkitekter AS in Oslo features a raw honesty to the selected materials, which creates variation in the surfaces and structures.

Focus on Outdoor


Design and trends for outdoor living spaces


Isola Design District 2017

Isola Design District 2017

An urban fabric of workshops and the contribution of Milan Polytechnic are two key features of the new Isola Design district. Gabriele Cavallaro and Emilio Lonardo tell us about the project.

Inner Telescope

Eduardo Kac has created an artwork aboard the International Space Station, realized by French astronaut Thomas Pesquet and specifically conceived for zero gravity.

Modourbano, Peabodys coffee shop, London, 2017

Peabodys coffee shop

The coffee shop by Milan-based studio Modourbano in London is marked by the warmth of wood, a modern and minimal feel which is at the same time domestic and familiar.

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Kani Marouf, Boots on the ground, Kurdistan

Boots on the ground

The young photographer Kani Marouf went to Kurdistan, her homecountry, where she found everyday life stuck in between borders of radicalism, war and suppression.

FuGa_ Officina dell’Architettura, Stairs, Milan, 2017

Stairs

FuGa_ Officina dell’Architettura completed a domestic interior in Milan with reduced spaces, designed on different levels, revolving around the everyday living.

Tells Studio, Hanger, 2017

Tiao Shi

Obsessed with high quality furniture and simple detail solutions, Chinese designers from Tells Studio created a series of side tables and coat hangers in wood and brass.

MAYU architects+, Beigang Cultural Center, Yunlin, Taiwan, 2015

Beigang Cultural Center

The L-shaped cultural centre in Taiwan by MAYU architects+ is composed of a 400-seat auditorium, a permanent exhibition space and a special exhibition space.

João Araújo Sousa & Joana Correia Silva, The Beacon, Toronto, 2017

The Beacon

The temporal installation by João Araújo Sousa & Joana Correia Silva in Toronto is wrapped in aged wood, inducing the ambiguous feeling that it always belonged there.

Matali Crasset, Around the home collection for Tex, 2017

Matali Crasset for Tex

Matali Crasset will collaborate with TEX – Carrefour for ten months, bringing out affordable home collections every season: the first one, Around the home, is all about textiles.

Architecten De Vylder Vinck Taillieu, House CG, Ghent, Belgium, 2016

House CG

The new renovation project by Architecten De Vylder Vinck Taillieu in Ghent, Belgium, rethinks what there already is, but totally differently.

Phillip K. Smith III, <i>The Circle of Land and Sky</i>, Desert X installation view, 2017. Courtesy the artist, Royale Projects and Desert X

Desert X

Sixteen international artists took over the Coachella Valley, amplifying the geographies, ethnic, social, historical and geologic layers that exist in the southern California desert.

OBBA, The layers, Ganghwa-gun, South Korea, 2016

The layers

The single family house, designed by Korean studio OBBA, features a long corridor that penetrates through the four layered spaces stretching out to the east-west direction.

Cold Picnic, The Passenger rugs, 2016-17

The Passenger

Inspired by the color and landscapes from the 1975 Michelangelo Antonioni film The passenger, Phoebe Sung and Peter Buer created a collection of hand-tufted rugs.

Aurora arquitectos, Prezeres building, Lisbon, 2016

Prazeres building

Designed by Aurora Arquitectos in Lisbon, this apartment combines the overall design of the three apartments and the desire to have a garden and a view in his home.

Fadi Sarieddine, Damascus Revisited, 2017

Damascus Revisited

Fadi Sarieddine’s exhibition at Design Days Dubay 2017, “Damascus Revisited”, features a series of geometries that come together to create pieces with different functions.

50 museums to visit in a lifetime

A global journey in search of the museums that made history, through nearly a century of the Domus archive.

bureau SLA & Overtreders W, Pretty Plastic Plant, 2016

Pretty Plastic Plant

Designed by bureau SLA and Overtrades W, this facility produces real building material from plastic waste, cleaning up your own trash and building something beautiful with it.

Eray/Carbajo, Adam barber shop, London, 2017

Adam barber

Inspired by the Turkish baths, architectural studio Eray/Carbajo designed the branding and interiors of a barber shop in London that assures privacy and focus on the clients.

Patrick Norguet, Nicolette for Ethimo, 2017

Nicolette updated

Nicolette – the chair designed by Patrick Norguet for Ethimo – comes with a new special upholstered dressing, combined with aluminium and wood, suitable for the outdoor.

Halo

Halo by Quentin de Coster is a table lamp created with Christophe Genard – one of the last Belgian glass blowers – whose glass body emphasizes the circular light.

Paolo Casati, creative director per Studiolabo del Brera Design District

Brera Design District 2017

Play as a design opportunity, 150+ events and historical locations to explore. Paolo Casati, creative director of Brera Design District for Studiolabo, describes the 2017 event. #MDW2017