A Milanese masterpiece by Franco Albini
In 1939, in Domus issue 144, Gio Ponti published Villa Pestarini. The rationalist house built 80 years ago has since been enjoyed by 5 generations, making it more alive and modern than ever.
Jacques Lévy: “How can I inhabit a city in such a way that I don’t make it uninhabitable for the others?”
In this video from the inaugural Domusforum the geographer and urbanist discusses the power that cities assert on its citizens, and the active role they play in the space they inhabit.
V&A Dundee by Kengo Kuma
Kengo Kuma's architecture creates relationships, flows and circulation. The V&A Dundee acts like a gate between river and city.
A grafting reddish-concrete stair transforms factory into a museum
The city museum of Lahr, Germany, by Heneghan Peng features a terracotta-tone tower that integrates a listed building.
A gentle tile carpet refurbishes an apartment in Barcelona
Ted’A arquitectes reuses the existing materials at Laia and Biel’s house for the grouts of the new ceramic flooring.
Stéphanie Chaltiel
Building with drones and earth
A chat with French architect Stéphanie Chaltiel who is experimenting with new construction methods turning drones into construction assistants.
Alicante. How to renovate a school with less than 1,300 euros
Inspired by the colors of southern Spain, Ebba architects completed a low-budget renovation project using local materials and the help of students.
Australia. A public building bringing together a rural community
Bark Architects built a honest construction using effective cost materials, referencing the carpentry tradition of Curra, Queensland.
A minimal housing prototype to survive on Mars
Chinese studio OPEN Architecture designed a capsule that minimises the consumption of resources and reuses all kind of wastes.
Michel Desvigne. Landscape comes before everything else, even architecture
The French landscape designer defends the priority of landscape architecture as a basis for an enlightened city, citing the big American parks built in the late 19th century.
The essence of design
Light and free like a butterfly, extending and folding like a folding screen, ORIGAMI, designed by Alberto Meda, is an electric plug&play radiator that liaises with its surroundings.
VISUAL GEOMETRIC
Square mirror with lacquered metal frame, mocha or burnished brass finish. Central mirror available in different shades.The new dimensions of the Visual mirrors create original reflections thanks to the different shades and to their modularity. They furnish private and public spaces with a refined simplicity and allow to create large compositions.
TREASURED LIGHT
A symmetrical bamboo-effect interlocking puzzle characterises Mr. Zheng coffee tables by Roberto Lazzeroni, which name underscores its Far East inspiration.
Wooden panelling is paired with board-marked concrete surfaces at Buenos Aires home
Located in Tortuguitas neighbourhood, Casa Aranzazu by Besonías Almeida alternates concrete partitions and wooden surfaces obtained from guayubira trees.
Los Angeles. The “Vernacular Environment” exhibition explores the meandres of space
Presented at the Edward Cella Gallery, the show curated by David DeBoer merges utopian architecture and art.
Stillman Cottage by Marcel Breuer: Architecture Legacy for Sale
Celebrated modernist structure reveals fascinating story of its architect, client and political environment of the 1970s America. Auction house Wright will offer this gem of mid-century lifestyle at unique December sale.
Ecuador. A bipartite cereal factory bathed by natural light
In a rural area near Calacalí, TEC Taller EC built the facility on a square plan using black cement blocks crowned by a metallic roof with skylights.
Value in the virtual. Designing the unbuilt
An exhibition in Stockholm explores the responsibilities of architecture in the perspective of a future VR-based city