Migrant art centre in the heart of Athens
AREA (Architecture Research Athens) designed a mobile metal structure to support the activities of an artist-activist collective that wants to involve the local community with its activities.
An installation in Utrecht evokes loneliness from Covid-19
“Poetic designer” Siba Sahabi gives shape to the experience of forced isolation through an extensive use of mirrored surfaces and the metaphor of windows as a gateway to the outside world.
Rediscovery of textile diva Gegia Bronzini
An internationally renowned designer and craftswoman already in the 1930s, she combined the ancient technique of tapestries with the forms of Bauhaus, corn yarns with silk and linen.
Is this power?
Political disputes in Italy lead the government to instability. Power, possibility, hegemony. Jacques-Louis David’s paintings show the metaphor of power.
A shipping box to be reused up to 1,000 times
Berlin-based startup LivingPackets is looking to replace disposable cardboard boxes with a smart, reusable alternative.
The poetic hue of Mandalaki Design Studio’s lamps
The research by Milanese design studio for their Halo lamp collection combines precise colours in an effort to create a second dimension that goes beyond physical reality.
An apartment for bibliophiles
The project by the architecture studio Atomaa turns the tables on a classic Milanese apartment, introducing partitions that re-equalize the living areas and using arches and color to revive liveliness and movement.
Design in an Age of Crisis, an open call to imagine the future
A project that saw the participation of over 500 designers committed to providing ideas and visions on health, environment, society and work.
A floating neighborhood in Amsterdam, a new opportunity for living
In the new Schoonschip neighbourhood created on the water in Amsterdam, each home has its own character and identity. The one designed by i29 architects is a multi-faceted volume, where the domestic space effortlessy floats between inside and outside.
Cino Zucchi
Can we imagine Milan as an indie city?
Zucchi reads the contemporary metropolis as the space for our multi-mode and multi-scale existence, but also as a cultural landscape shaped by the unwritten rules of a shared etiquette.
LAS.fair: open call for young artists in the Aurum building in Pescara
It will take place on 28, 29 and 30 May 2021 in the historic building Aurum in Pescara, Italy. Registration is open to individual artists or groups: how to apply.
Denmark. A House of Grain open to all
Norwegian studio Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter (RRA) has designed a new building celebrating and preserving wheat culture in the Danish region of Jutland.
A pool house for Philip Roth
An indoor swimming pool designed for the late American novelist’s Connecticut home by Anne Valentino and George Ranalli, but never built, is revealed.
An esoteric-yet-familiar-looking portable controller
Its name is Psistick and it’s the concept of a portable video game controller that seems to come from a parallel universe – or Half-Life.
Those who left us in 2020
Many personalities who helped building and livening up the post-war cultural world have passed away in this 2020. For each of them, we suggest a project, a book, an exhibition, a website, to transfer a small part of the enormous cultural legacy they left us.
The new Le Monde HQ: an unconvincing blob-like building by Snøhetta
The new Le Monde Headquarters is an architecture of a relatively outdated grandeur, a glass sculpture which fails to become iconic. An optical disillusion.
How tracking technology is redesigning healthcare
From supply chain to patient journey to data-driven hospital design, the pandemic showed us that track and trace has become increasingly relevant to healthcare. The interview.