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Tying together the concept of display and the spectacle of everyday life, the Japanese studio has completed a three-storey house and store, divided by a single wall where a myriad small items are placed as a precious collection of objects.
The Japanese architect proposes a delicate, latticed structure of 20mm steel poles with a lightweight and semi-transparent appearance.
Cities with their streets, squares and transport lines, their roofs, walls, façades, street levels, arches and long perspectives — these are the subjects for which we, lovers of the city in all its different permutations, shall gratefully remember Gabriele Basilico.
An exhibition at the Storefront for Art and Architecture presents the hidden stories of the politics behind architectural competitions, focusing on recent design contests that have altered the architectural discourse.
Today's ever-larger and more complex roller-coasters are sophisticated architectures, designed to let people experience and overcome extreme sensations. Also, under the pretext of a craving for amusement, they enable a virtual desecration and demystification of the malaise of metropolitan life.
During the last edition of Maison & Objet, Eindhoven-based designer Doreen Westphal presented Hoffice, a new collection of objects for the home and office in concrete, bamboo and oak for MenschMade.
One of the 21 projects presented at the D3 contest during IMM Cologne 2013, Hanna Krüger's Shingle Shelves and Shingle Cabinet is a leather and wood storage system that seeks to bring an exterior architectonical element into the house.
Close to one of the city's canals, the Italian architecture and research studio has completed a multipurpose space incorporating an art gallery and bar dominated by an interactive, movable element, which constantly redefines the interior.
Joan Fontcuberta reads the work of photographer Txema Salvans, who surveys the leisure sites of the post-industrial society, bringing out all their surreal banality and sharpening the funny sense of strangeness they engender.
The first of the Design Museum's forays into what will be the collection on display at its future home in Kensington seeks — but ultimately fails — to tell the extraordinary stories behind certain everyday objects.
Luca Nichetto's installation for Foscarini at the Stockholm Design Week shows a series of windows inspired by the typically Northern European habit of leaving curtains open at home, providing glimpses of light and fragments of daily life.
The second edition of the Happy Business To You trade fair takes place from 13 — 16 February in Pordenone, seeking to facilitate the match between supply and demand for supply contract.
During the latest edition of Maison & Objet, ECAL students Aurélie Mathieu and Philippe Karrer have presented Brick, a layered, stacked crystal vase that evokes the formal language of construction games, part of the new Baccarat Vase-O-Rama collection.
Presented at IMM Cologne, Studio Kimu's traditional-style lantern alternates between a soft glow and a direct spotlight: its plain paper and wood shade mixes complex and simple forms, eastern and western styles, old and new aesthetics.
Premiering recently at the Rotterdam Film Festival, Nelly Ben Hayoun's largest endeavour to date is a surreal achievement, managing to make an orchestra out of a group of NASA scientists and perform a stage opera inspired by control rooms.
Few places in France could seem further removed from the rarefied elegance of the Louvre than the former mining flats surrounding Lens. It is here, though, that the grand dame of Parisian museums has established an ethereal, otherworldly outpost deeply steeped in the diaphanous language of SANAA.
At Maison & Objet, the Japanese architect has presented his latest collaboration with the Italian design manufacturer: a stainless steel cutlery set, where each handle features a hexagonal section, evoking the shape of Oriental chopsticks.
The architecture and design studio has completed a co-working space in the city's downtown area, renovating a rundown office and creating a multi-functional space and gallery for young creatives.
Inspired by traditional Scandinavian furniture, young designer Rasmus B. Fex presented a conceptual bench at the latest edition of IMM Cologne: five pinewood boards join two chairs to form a bench with an integrated storage space.
From an experimental house designed by Kengo Kuma in the north of Japan, to a building that serves as a manifesto for urban rehabilitation in downtown Lisbon, here are this week's best stories.
In 1974, Domus reported on what was a unique event in Italy: a great, heterogeneous contemporary art collection assembled in 25 years by artist Remo Brindisi, installed in a "dwelling museum" designed by Nanda Vigo.
Despite pursuing two opposing research directions, MVRDV and Urban-Think Tank both agree that the life of the city, no matter how complex and compromised, subsumes design.
Located in one of the city's historical neighbourhoods, Artéria's Manifesto Building proposes a model for an integrated urban rehabilitation, encompassing social, cultural and economical interventions: a holistic approach that involves the local community.
During the 2013 Stockholm Design Week, the Italian designer presents a modular, customisable collection of outdoor furnishings for Swedish manufacturer Berga, comprising three concrete planters and three metal trellises.
Following an 18-month residency in Vienna, The Morning Line sound pavilion will be permanently installed in Karlsruhe: a video explores one of the performances allowed by this structure, which trains the ear to find new angles to appreciate space and sound.
At the 2013 Stockholm Design Week, the Swedish designer presents a new series of porcelain measuring cups for Italian design manufacturer Alessi: their elegant geometric design derives from the shape of old weights.
In Brooklyn Heights, artist-run exhibition series The Willows experiments in what kind of relationships can arise in a living-room salon today. Love, the next event in the series, will take place 9 February.
At HangarBicocca, an encounter discussing Tomás Saraceno's On Space Time Foam — with Bruno Latour, Molly Nesbit and Joseph Grima — produced distinct layers of thought and knowledge that affected and related to each other in real time.
One year ago, Kengo Kuma completed one of his most radical proposals: an experimental house intimately connected to contemporary technological advances, while putting into practice the knowledge of ancient practices.
ICSplat's New Concordia Island competition, focusing on a deliberately paradoxical theme such as the Costa Concordia disaster, was a perfect catalyst for further design reflections and a sure approach not necessarily restricted to the Giglio Island context. Few Italian commentators realised this; the others got wound up in their indignation.
Francesca Recchia guides us through the work of Razistan, a collective of photographers that aims to both reveal and transcend the conflict beyond the photo-reportage of war, focusing on the real protagonists in the conflict: people and territory.
