Japanese gardens told by landscape architect Tomoki Kato
Transformed by the passing of time and their altered relationship with the city, they have nonetheless retained their spiritual and cultural value.
Studio Anne Holtrop designs a site-specific facade in Bahrain
35 Green Corner Building feature structural concrete blocks, made by directly moulding the soil of the site, which thus becomes the generator of the building.
Basements vs. garages, the enlightment of the underground
Basement in America, garage in Europa: il luogo più tralasciato della casa è anche quello dei segreti e delle ossessioni. Oggi, però, costruire sottoterra significa anche rinascita.
Design Educate Awards: the educational role of architecture and design
Design Educate Awards selected 80 projects from five continents for their ability to have a positive, long-term impact on our planet.
Casa MS takes shape from the stone of Guanajuato
In the centre of Mexico, Fabian M Escalante H | arquitectos designed a home that adapts to the slopes of the land, entrusting materials with the task of confronting the severe nature that surrounds it.
The Taxi project at MoMA
In the summer of 1976, the museum in New York hosted an exhibition, organized by Emilio Ambasz, that sought to provide a response to the problem of urban traffic and pollution through new ‘ecological’ cab projects.
Mexico City house is designed around its inner courtyards
Interiors and green spaces intertwine in this private brick residence designed by ASP Arquitectura Sergio Portillo.
Burning architecture: a ritual to talk about climate change
Designed by Russian studio Katarsis, an imposing wooden bridge is destroyed through the ancestral ceremony of burning, reinterpreting the traditional rites of passage between winter and spring.
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Alessandro Melis
Resilient communities as an antidote to the environmental crisis
The curator of the Italian Pavilion for the next Architecture Biennale, tells us how we should inhabit the planet, also in light of the pandemic.
Lattice brickwork for a maternity hospital in Senegal
Swiss architect Manuel Herz’s new project in Tambacounda features a permeable skin, inspired by the Arab mashrabiya, that facilitate natural air circulation.
Announced the restyling of the Rinascente store in Rome
An investment of 37 million euros for the refurbishment project of the first Rinascente store in the Italian capital, designed by Milanese studio 2050+.
Winners of the Colosseum competition announced
A central wooden arena inside the Colosseum designed by Labics and Milan engineering will be completed in 2023.
A 1950s portico becomes a mini apartment with roof garden
Francesca Perani’s renovation creates a flexible and playful urban refuge of 25 square metres, combining chromatic accents, geometric cuts and Persian references.
David Chipperfield completes the refurbishment of Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie
The most “modern” of all contemporary architects has been working for almost a decade on the a sensible, silent restoration of Mies van der Rohe’s masterpiece.
The architecture of Star Wars
An exploration into the design of one of the most ambitious fictional universes, inextricably linked to reality, with brutalist inspirations, influenced by “spaghetti westerns” and the involvement of a key figure, Ralph McQuarrie.
Work in progress: Naples’ subway station
The subway station that Spanish studio Miralles Tagliabue EMBT is currently building in Naples will be a covered public square mediating critical aspects of an area designed by Kenzo Tange.