After a third suicide, the Vessel closes to public
Heatherwick Studio’s scenic structure in New York Citty will temporarily close to the public after less than a year after it opened.
The Cadillac of the future will be a flying car
American car manufacturer GM took the digital stage at CES 2021 to show a flurry of futuristic concepts and to tease the electrification of its most popular car models.
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.
The course of Empire
From Thomas Cole’s evocative works to the attack on Capitol Hill – images recalling the crowds of protesters against the US Congress.
At last, Samsung introduces the pen to its most famous smartphone
The Korean brand has launched the Galaxy S21 series, and there’s good news for those who use their smartphone as a digital notebook.
The rediscovered shape: a renovated rural house in Portugal
Paulo Merlini Architects rediscovered the original tripartite form of Casa Rio during demolition and took it as a starting point for a contemporary reinterpretation of the old farmhouse.
An Asian restaurant in Lisbon connects indoor patio and street
DC.AC and Mariana Peralta studio renovated the ground floor of a 1930s for a restaurant soaked in red and pink.
Colosseum, the ancient Arena of Gladiators will have a mechanized floor
The Italian Minister for Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism, Dario Franceschini, has announced the call for entries for the reconstruction of the Colosseum arena, as it appeared in 19th century illustrations.
Power Frame, the ‘Italian-style’ electric bike
Apparently, they are common muscle bikes, slim and with functional and attractive geometries. Internally, they have a technological heart and rose from a 30-year-old Italian idea with a UK background.
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.
Pharmacist Rainer Krause’s house designed by Superstudio
On the basis of some sketches by the pharmacist Rainer Krause, the Florentine collective realized in a small German town the house symbol of the “transfiguration and evolution of Superstudio’s thinking”.
Urban privacy and exchange with the city: a hotel in Mexico City
The front elevation of Casa Octavia by Pérez Palacios Arquitectos is designed as a semi-transparent filter, negotiating the relationship between its small, deep parcel and its urban surroundings.
Between reality and fiction: the artificial topographies of a Colombian student group
Students from Universidad Corhuila, Colombia, have built a low-cost, DIY inflatable pavilion on their university campus.
A mini tea house in Hong Kong entirely clad in bricks
A Work of Substance collective designed Mother Pearl, a 32 square metre space selling bubble tea and overlooking the street: a city niche defined by pastel colours and a strong material texture.
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.
Leonardo Mosso, the construction of a latent utopia
He passed away at the age of 94. We remember him with his works and his thought “digital in the gaze, analogical in the doing”.
LG makes money selling displays, and it’s putting them everywhere
If you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail. And if you manufacture OLED displays, everything needs a screen.